{ "id": "0912.5475", "version": "v1", "published": "2009-12-30T15:14:26.000Z", "updated": "2009-12-30T15:14:26.000Z", "title": "Self-consistent modeling of pair cascades in the polar cap of a pulsar", "authors": [ "A. N. Timokhin" ], "comment": "6 pages, 5 figures; 2009 Fermi Symposium eConf Proceedings C091122", "categories": [ "astro-ph.HE" ], "abstract": "Here we briefly report on first results of self-consistent simulation of non-stationary electron-positron cascades in the polar cap of pulsar using specially developed hybrid PIC/Monte-Carlo numerical code. We consider the case of Ruderman-Sutherland cascade -- when particles cannot be extracted from the surface of the neutrons star.", "revisions": [ { "version": "v1", "updated": "2009-12-30T15:14:26.000Z" } ], "analyses": { "keywords": [ "polar cap", "pair cascades", "self-consistent modeling", "developed hybrid pic/monte-carlo numerical code", "non-stationary electron-positron cascades" ], "note": { "typesetting": "TeX", "pages": 6, "language": "en", "license": "arXiv", "status": "editable", "inspire": 842295, "adsabs": "2009arXiv0912.5475T" } } }