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arxiv: astro-ph/9911307 · v1 · submitted 1999-11-16 · 🌌 astro-ph

Possible re-acceleration regions above the inner gap and pulsar gamma-ray emission

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keywords abovedensitypulsarre-accelerationregionschargeemissionexcess
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We propose that the violent breakdown of the Ruderman-Sutherland type vacuum gap above the pulsar polar cap region may produce copious primary particles and make the charge density above the gap in excess of the Goldreich-Julian density. Such an excess residue of charge density may arise some re-acceleration regions above the gap due to the space-charge-limited flow mechanism. Such re-acceleration regions, if exist, may accelerate particles to carry away more spin-down energy, and may have some implications for pulsar $\gamma$-ray emission.

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