Electron-Positron Pairs Related to Alfven Waves on the Magnetar Surface

Abdul Kader; Kalpana Duorah

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Electron-Positron Pairs Related to Alfven Waves on the Magnetar Surface

Abdul Kader, Kalpana Duorah

Published in International Journal of Astrophysics and Space Science (Volume 3, Issue 3)

Received: 8 April 2015 Accepted: 23 April 2015 Published: 6 May 2015

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Abstract

The phenomena of electron-positron pairs production through the polar cap region of a magnetar is studied. Assuming the distances of electron-positron pair regions from the magnetar centre to be the height scales of magnetic deformed regions and hence determine by adopting the Alfven waves propagation. The maximum potential drop on the magnetar surface and the potential differences in the confined regions are obtained by using Lorentz factor. The attempt is made to find out the curvature photon energy through the polar cap region of magnetar that is greater than critical energy and verify the conversion into electron-positron pairs via synchrotron radiation with their characteristic photon energy. Further, an estimate is made to flow the charged particles per second through the polar cap region.

Published in	International Journal of Astrophysics and Space Science (Volume 3, Issue 3)
DOI	10.11648/j.ijass.20150303.11
Page(s)	25-29
Creative Commons	This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Electron-Positron Pairs, Polar Cap Region, Magnetar, Alfven Waves, Critical Energy, Lorentz Factor

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Abdul Kader

Department of Physics, Gauhati University, Guwahati, Assam, India
Kalpana Duorah

Department of Physics, Gauhati University, Guwahati, Assam, India

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