期刊
ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL
卷 868, 期 1, 页码 -出版社
IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/aae685
关键词
radiation mechanisms: non-thermal; radio continuum: general
资金
- National Basic Research Program (973 Program) of China [2014CB845800]
- China Postdoctoral Science Foundation [2016M600851]
- KIAA-CAS Fellowship
- [BX201600003]
The extremely high brightness temperatures of pulsars and fast radio bursts (FRBs) require their radiation mechanisms to be coherent. Coherent curvature radiation from bunches has been long discussed as the mechanism for radio pulsars and recently for FRBs. Assuming that bunches are already generated in pulsar magnetospheres, we calculate the spectrum of coherent curvature radiation under a three-dimensional magnetic field geometry. Different from previous works assuming parallel trajectories and a monoenergetic energy distribution of electrons, we consider a bunch characterized by its length, curvature radius of the trajectory family, bunch opening angle, and electron energy distribution. We find that the curvature radiation spectra of the bunches are characterized by a multisegment broken power law, with the break frequencies depending on bunch properties and trajectory configuration. We also emphasize that in a pulsar magnetosphere, only the fluctuation of net charges with respect to the background (Goldreich-Julian) outflow can make a contribution to coherent radiation. We apply this model to constrain the observed spectra of pulsars and FRBs. For a typical pulsar (B-p = 10(12) G, P = 0.1 s), a small fluctuation of the net charge delta n(GJ) similar to 0.1n(GJ) can provide the observable flux. For FRBs, the fluctuating net charge may be larger due to its abrupt nature. For delta n(GJ) similar to n(GJ), a neutron star with a strong magnetic field and fast rotation is required to power an FRB in the spindown-powered model. The requirement is less stringent in the cosmic comb model thanks to the larger cross section and compressed charge density of the bunch made by the external astrophysical stream that combs the magnetosphere.
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