Electrodynamic structure of an outer gap accelerator: Location of the gap and the gamma-ray emission from the Crab pulsar

Astrophysical Journal

Volumn 558, Issue 1 PART 1, 2001, Pages 216-227

  Hirotani, Kouichi ^a   Shibata, Shinpei ^b  

^a NATIONAL ASTRONOMICAL OBSERVATORY OF JAPAN   (Japan)

^b YAMAGATA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Gamma rays: Observations; Gamma rays: Theory; Magnetic fields; Pulsars: Individual (Crab Pulsar); X rays: Galaxies

Indexed keywords

EID: 0035457436     PISSN: 0004637X     EISSN: 15384357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/322468     Document Type: Article

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