Modelling energy-dependent pulsar light curves
Date
2018Author
Venter, Christo
Barnard, Monica
Harding, Alice K.
Kalapotharakos, Constantinos
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In recent years, surprise discoveries of pulsed emission from the Crab and Vela pulsars
above 100 GeV have drawn renewed attention to this largely unexplored region of the energy
range. In this paper, we discuss example light curves due to curvature emission, with good
resolution in the different energy bands. Continued light curve modelling may help to discriminate
between different emission mechanisms, as well as constrain the location where emission is
produced within the pulsar magnetosphere, including regions beyond the light cyl