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Caption: Figure 6.
Gamma-ray luminosity
L
γ vs. the rotational energy-loss rate
. Dashed line:
L
γ equal to
. Dot-dashed line:
L
γ proportional to the square root of
.
L
γ is calculated using a beam correction factor
f
Ω = 1 for all pulsars and the integral energy flux
G
100 from the on-pulse spectral analysis (see Section 2.2), except for PSRs J1836+5925 and J2021+4026, which use the total background-corrected
phase-averaged flux, including a relatively bright unpulsed component (see Section 2.2). For the Crab we also plot the total
high-energy luminosity,
L
tot =
L
X
+
L
γ, indicated by *. Several notable pulsars have been labeled. Blue squares: gamma-ray-selected pulsars. Red triangles: millisecond
gamma-ray pulsars. Green circles: all other radio-loud gamma-ray pulsars. Unfilled markers indicate pulsars for which only
a DM-based distance estimate is available (see Table 5). Pulsars with two distance estimates have two markers connected with
dashed error bars.
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