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19972011
most citedPulsar Polar Cap Heating and Surface Thermal X-Ray Emission II. Inverse Compton Radiation Pair Fronts

232 citations · 1.9k across the 19 of their papers we have counts for

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19 papers

astro-ph.HE2011★ 74 cited

Pulsar Pair Cascades in Magnetic Fields with Offset Polar Caps

Alice K. Harding, Alex G. Muslimov

Neutron star magnetic fields may have polar caps (PC) that are offset from the dipole axis, through field-line sweepback near the light cylinder or non-symmetric currents within th…

astro-ph.HE2010★ 51 cited

Pulsar Pair Cascades in a Distorted Magnetic Dipole Field

Alice K. Harding, Alex G. Muslimov

We investigate the effect of a distorted neutron star dipole magnetic field on pulsar pair cascade multiplicity and pair death lines. Using a simple model for a distorted dipole fi…

astro-ph2008★ 16 cited

Pair-Starved Pulsar Magnetospheres

Alex G. Muslimov, Alice K. Harding

We propose a simple analytic model for the innermost (within the light cylinder of canonical radius) structure of open-magnetic-field lines of a rotating neutron star (NS) with rel…

astro-ph2005★ 18 cited

Effects of Rotation and Relativistic Charge Flow on Pulsar Magnetospheric Structure

Alex G. Muslimov, Alice K. Harding

We propose an analytical 3-D model of the open field-line region of a neutron star (NS) magnetosphere. We construct an explicit analytic solution for arbitrary obliquity (angle bet…

astro-ph2004★ 131 cited

High-Energy Emission From Millisecond Pulsars

Alice K. Harding, Vladimir V. Usov, Alex G. Muslimov

The X-ray and gamma-ray spectrum of rotation-powered millisecond pulsars is investigated in a model for acceleration and pair cascades on open field lines above the polar caps. Alt…

astro-ph2004★ 9 cited

Pulsar Slot Gaps and Unidentified EGRET Sources

Alice Harding, Alexander Muslimov

A new picture of pulsar high-energy emission is proposed that is different from both the traditional polar cap and outer gap models, but combines elements of each. The slot gap mod…