2012/09/23 by Andrei Gruzinov, Gruzinov, Andrei
Engineering · Physics and Astronomy · #FOS: Physical sciences #High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE) #Particle Accelerators and Free-Electron Lasers #Pulsars and Gravitational Waves Research #Superconducting Materials and Applications
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1209.5121
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Pulsar efficiency, defined as the ratio of the pulsed bolometric luminosity to the spin-down power, is calculated to be about 15% (averaged over the spin-dipole inclination angle, ranging between about 50% for the aligned and 10% for the orthogonal). We also estimate the characteristic photon energy and argue that our results agree with the Fermi pulsar catalog -- in a sense.