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Pair Creation in the Pulsar Magnetosphere

  • Authors: Paul N. Arendt, Jr. and Jean A. Eilek

Arendt & Eilek 2002 The Astrophysical Journal 581 451.

  • Provider: AAS Journals

Caption: Fig. 8.

Composite lepton DFs: stellar frame. Sample DFs are given for pair plasmas arising from both curvature and magnetic resonant inverse Compton seed photon spectra. The DFs are shown as they appear in the (corotating) star frame. The curvature‐seeded runs shown here are all from the energy‐boosted runs, with beam energies of 1, 2, and ﹩5\times 10^{6}mc^{2}﹩, corresponding to the solid, dashed, and dotted lines, respectively. For the ﹩B_{*}=10^{12}﹩ ICS runs, the respective line types are for beam energies of 2, 10, and ﹩50\times 10^{4}﹩. For the ﹩B_{*}=10^{13}﹩ ICS runs, beam energies are ﹩10^{3},\ 10^{4},﹩ and ﹩10^{5}﹩, respectively. Normalizations are as discussed in § 4 of the text. Note the low‐momentum cutoffs of the high‐field DFs. The ﹩B_{*}=10^{12}﹩, ﹩\gamma _{b}=10^{6}﹩ curvature DF has been scaled up by the factor shown for visibility.

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