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View SchemaThe combined X-ray and $\gamma$-ray modeling of millisecond pulsars PSR J0030+0451 in the dissipative magnetospheres
| Authors | Gang Cao, Xiongbang Yang |
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| ArXiv ID | 2601.07491vv1 |
| URL | https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.07491 |
| License | http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/ |
Abstract
Modeling of the NICER X-ray light curves of millisecond pulsars PSR J0030+0451 provides a strong evidence for the existence of non-dipole magnetic fields. We study the X-ray and $\gamma$-ray emission of PSR J0030+0451 in the dissipative dipole plus off-centred quadrupole magnetospheres. The dissipative FF+AE dipole magnetospheres by combining force-free (FF) and Aristotelian electrodynamics (AE) are solved by a 3D pseudo-spectral method in the rotating coordinate system. We use the FF+AE dipole plus off-centred quadrupole fields with minimum free parameters to reproduce two hotspot configurations found by the NICER observations. The X-ray and $\gamma$-ray emission from PSR J0030+0451 are simultaneously computed by using a ray-tracing method and a particle trajectory method. The modelled X-ray and $\gamma$-ray emission is then directly compared with those of PSR J0030+0451 from the NICER and Fermi observations. Our results can well reproduce the observed trends of the NICER X-ray and Fermi $\gamma$-ray emission for PSR J0030+0451.
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