Pulsar polar cap heating and surface thermal X-ray emission. I. Curvature radiation pair fronts

Astrophysical Journal

Volumn 556, Issue 2 PART 1, 2001, Pages 987-1001

  Harding, Alice K ^a   Muslimov, Alexander G ^b  

^a NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^b Emergent Info Technologies Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Pulsars: general; Radiation mechanisms: nonthermal; Relativity; Stars: neutron; X rays: stars

Indexed keywords

EID: 0035429558     PISSN: 0004637X     EISSN: 15384357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/321589     Document Type: Article

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