Crab Pulsar -- Particle Acceleration Areas (IMAGE)

Max Planck Institute for Physics

Crab Pulsar -- Particle Acceleration Areas

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The neutron star (red sphere) with its strong magnetic field (white lines) spins around itself nearly 30 times per second injecting energetic electrons in the space region around it. The green and blue shaded regions depict different particle acceleration zones from where the detected photons could originate. The green zone lies in the vicinity of the pulsar's magnetosphere, whereas the blue zone could be as far as 100,000 km away from the pulsar.

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Patricia Carcelén Marco

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