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arxiv: astro-ph/9909485 · v1 · submitted 1999-09-29 · 🌌 astro-ph

High-energy accelerators above pulsar polar caps

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keywords starspolarpulsarsaboveacceleratorsaxisbarecaps
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Similar to the terrestrial collision accelerators of electron-antielectron, another kind of accelerator is above a positively or negatively charged pulsar polar cap. In the case of pulsars with magnetic axis parallel (anti-parallel) to rotational axis, relativistic antielectron (electron) with Lorentz factor about 10^6 hit the electrons in the polar caps. These scenarios are investigated both for pulsars being bare strange stars and for pulsars being neutron stars. Such a study may be valuable to differentiate neutron stars and bare strange stars observationally.

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