2000/02/09 by Y. E. Lyubarskii, Lyubarskii, Y. E., S. A. Petrova +2
Earth and Planetary Sciences · Engineering · Physics and Astronomy · #Astrophysics (astro-ph) #Earthquake Detection and Analysis #FOS: Physical sciences #Geophysics and Sensor Technology #High-pressure geophysics and materials #astro-ph
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.astro-ph/0002194
17 pages, LaTeX
arxiv created 2000/02/09 · openalex publication_date 2000/02/09 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
We consider resonant inverse Compton scattering of thermal photons by secondary particles above the pulsar polar gap. The process appears to be an essential energy loss mechanism for the particles. The distribution function of the secondary plasma particles is found to be strongly affected by the scattering. It becomes two-humped implying the development of two-stream instability. The resonantly upscattered Compton photons are found to gain energy of 1 - 10 MeV forming an additional component in the pulsar gamma-ray spectrum. The corresponding gamma-ray flux is estimated as well.