4 papers
Gamma-ray emission from rotation-powered pulsars
J. A. Hibschman
Using a simplified model of cascade pair creation over pulsar polar caps presented in two previous papers, we investigate the expected gamma-ray output from pulsars' low altitude p…
Pair-production multiplicities in rotation-powered pulsars
J. A. Hibschman, J. Arons
We discuss the creation of electron-positron cascades in the context of pulsar polar cap acceleration models and derive several useful analytic and semi-analytic results for the sp…
Pair Multiplicities and Pulsar Death
J. A. Hibschman, J. Arons
Through a simple model of particle acceleration and pair creation above the polar caps of rotation-powered pulsars, we calculate the height of the pair-formation front (PFF) and th…
Polarization Sweeps in Rotation Powered Pulsars
Johann A. Hibschman, Jonathan Arons
We re-examine the characteristic polarization angle sweep of rotation-powered pulsars and calculate the expected deviations from this sweep caused by aberrational effects and by po…