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ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL LETTERS
卷 752, 期 1, 页码 -出版社
IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.1088/2041-8205/752/1/L17
关键词
binaries: close; gamma rays: stars; pulsars: individual (PSR B1259-63); stars: individual (LS2883)
资金
- Federal Targeted Program The Scientic and Pedagogical Personnel of the Innovative Russia [N 536]
- Russian Ministry of Science and Education [N 2.6310.2011]
- Spanish Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovacion (MICINN) [FPA2010-22056-C06-02]
- MICINN
- European Social Funds through a Ramon y Cajal fellowship
We argue that the bright flare of the binary pulsar PSR B1259-63/LS2883 detected by the Fermi Large Area Telescope is due to the inverse Compton scattering of the unshocked electron-positron pulsar wind with a Lorentz factor Gamma(0) approximate to 10(4). The combination of two effects both linked to the circumstellar disk (CD) is a key element in the proposed model. The first effect is related to the impact of the surrounding medium on the termination of the pulsar wind. Inside the disk, the early termination of the wind results in suppression of its gamma-ray luminosity. When the pulsar escapes the disk, the conditions for termination of the wind undergo significant changes. This would lead to a dramatic increase of the pulsar wind zone, and thus to the proportional increase of the gamma-ray flux. On the other hand, if the parts of the CD disturbed by the pulsar can supply infrared photons of density high enough for efficient Comptonization of the wind, almost the entire kinetic energy of the pulsar wind would be converted to radiation, thus the gamma-ray luminosity of the wind could approach the level of the pulsar's spin-down luminosity as reported by the Fermi Collaboration.
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