Two‐Pole Caustic Model for High‐Energy Light Curves of Pulsars
Two‐Pole Caustic Model for High‐Energy Light Curves of Pulsars
We present a new model of high-energy light curves from rotation-powered pulsars. The key ingredient of the model is the gap region (i.e., the region where particle acceleration is taking place and high-energy photons originate) that satisfies the following assumptions: (1) the gap region extends from each polar cap to …