{
  "id": "1507.03136",
  "version": "v1",
  "published": "2015-07-11T18:36:19.000Z",
  "updated": "2015-07-11T18:36:19.000Z",
  "title": "On the Spectral Shape of Gamma-ray Pulsars Above the Break Energy",
  "authors": [
    "Christopher Bochenek",
    "Andrew McCann"
  ],
  "comment": "34th International Cosmic Ray Conference",
  "categories": [
    "astro-ph.HE"
  ],
  "abstract": "It is well known that, for bright gamma-ray pulsars with high statistics above a few GeV, the phase averaged spectral energy distribution (SED) is harder than a simple exponential cutoff above the break. We perform phase-resolved spectral analyses of bright gamma-ray pulsars and demonstrate that, even over narrow phase ranges, the SEDs of gamma-ray pulsars above the break energy are harder than a simple exponential cutoff. We argue within a radiation-reaction limited curvature framework that this is indicative of non-stationary emission or emission from multiple zones. Further, we address a common problem faced when fitting hard spectral tails with a power-law times a sub-exponential function. Namely, that the sub-exponent parameter does not describe any parameters of physical models of pulsar emission. We introduce a simple analytical fit function to solve this problem.",
  "revisions": [
    {
      "version": "v1",
      "updated": "2015-07-11T18:36:19.000Z"
    }
  ],
  "analyses": {
    "keywords": [
      "break energy",
      "spectral shape",
      "simple exponential cutoff",
      "bright gamma-ray pulsars",
      "phase averaged spectral energy distribution"
    ],
    "tags": [
      "conference paper"
    ],
    "note": {
      "typesetting": "TeX",
      "pages": 0,
      "language": "en",
      "license": "arXiv",
      "status": "editable",
      "adsabs": "2015arXiv150703136B",
      "inspire": 1382548
    }
  }
}