PoS - Proceedings of Science
Volume 312 - 7th International Fermi Symposium (IFS2017) - Session Pulsars
Inductive spikes and gamma-ray flares from the Crab Nebula
J. Kirk* and G. Giacinti
Full text: pdf
Pre-published on: December 12, 2017
Published on: November 11, 2020
Abstract
The ~400 MeV flaring emission from the Crab Nebula is naturally explained as the result of an abrupt reduction in the mass-loading of the pulsar wind. Very few particles are then available to carry the current required to maintain wave activity, causing them to achieve high Lorentz factors. When they penetrate the Nebula, a tightly beamed, high luminosity burst of hard gamma-rays results, with characteristics similar to the observed flares. This mechanism may operate in other powerful pulsars, such as J0537-6910 (PWN N 157B), B0540-69, B1957+20 and J0205+6449 (3C 58).
DOI: https://doi.org/10.22323/1.312.0010
How to cite

Metadata are provided both in "article" format (very similar to INSPIRE) as this helps creating very compact bibliographies which can be beneficial to authors and readers, and in "proceeding" format which is more detailed and complete.

Open Access
Creative Commons LicenseCopyright owned by the author(s) under the term of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.