Self-consistent modeling of pair cascades in the polar cap of a pulsar

2009/12/30 by A. N. Timokhin, Timokhin, A. N.
Physics and Astronomy · #FOS: Physical sciences #High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE) #astro-ph.HE

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.0912.5475

6 pages, 5 figures; 2009 Fermi Symposium eConf Proceedings C091122

arxiv created 2009/12/30 · arxiv updated 2010/01/14

Abstract

Here we briefly report on first results of self-consistent simulation of non-stationary electron-positron cascades in the polar cap of pulsar using specially developed hybrid PIC/Monte-Carlo numerical code. We consider the case of Ruderman-Sutherland cascade -- when particles cannot be extracted from the surface of the neutrons star.

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