Model of pulsar pair cascades in non-uniform electric fields: Growth rate, density profile, and screening time
Model of pulsar pair cascades in non-uniform electric fields: Growth rate, density profile, and screening time
Time-dependent cascades of electron–positron pairs are thought to be the main source of plasma in pulsar magnetospheres and a primary ingredient to explain the nature of pulsar radio emission, a long-standing open problem in high-energy astrophysics. During these cascades—positive feedback loops of gamma-ray photon emission via curvature radiation by TeV …