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MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY
Volume 464, Issue 2, Pages 2018-2026Publisher
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stw2430
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pulsars: general
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- Commonwealth Government
- UK Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC)
- STFC [ST/L000768/1] Funding Source: UKRI
- Science and Technology Facilities Council [ST/L000768/1] Funding Source: researchfish
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We compare radio profile widths of young, energetic gamma-ray-detected and non-gamma-ray-detected pulsars. We find that the latter typically have wider radio profiles, with the boundary between the two samples exhibiting a dependence on the rate of rotational energy loss. We also find that within the sample of gamma-ray-detected pulsars, radio profile width is correlated with both the separation of the main gamma-ray peaks and the presence of narrow gamma-ray components. These findings lead us to propose that these pulsars form a single population where the main factors determining gamma-ray detectability are the rate of rotational energy loss and the proximity of the line of sight to the rotation axis. The expected magnetic inclination angle distribution will be different for radio pulsars with and without detectable gamma rays, naturally leading to the observed differences. Our results also suggest that the geometry of existing radio and outer-magnetosphere gamma-ray emission models is at least qualitatively realistic, implying that information about the viewing geometry can be extracted from profile properties of pulsars.
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