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High-Energy Emission From the Polar Cap and Slot GapThirty-five years after the discovery of rotation-powered pulsars, we still do not understand the fundamentals of their pulsed emission at any wavelength. I will review the latest developments in understanding the high-energy emission of rotation-powered pulsars, with particular emphasis on the polar cap and slot gap models. Special and general relativistic effects play important roles in pulsar emission, from inertial frame-dragging near the stellar surface to aberration, time-of-flight and retardation of the magnetic field near the light cylinder. Understanding how these effects determine what we observe at different wavelengths is critical to unraveling the emission physics. I will discuss how the next generation of gamma-ray detectors, AGILE and GLAST, will test prediction of these models.
Document ID
20060020074
Acquisition Source
Goddard Space Flight Center
Document Type
Conference Paper
Authors
Harding, Alice K.
(NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Greenbelt, MD, United States)
Date Acquired
August 23, 2013
Publication Date
January 1, 2006
Subject Category
Astrophysics
Meeting Information
Meeting: 363rd Heraeus Seminar on Neutron Stars and Pulsars
Location: Bad Honnef
Country: Germany
Start Date: May 14, 2006
End Date: May 19, 2006
Distribution Limits
Public
Copyright
Work of the US Gov. Public Use Permitted.

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