The Rest of the Story: Radio Pulsars and IR through Gamma-Ray Emission
Abstract
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Recent observations have detected a number of young pulsars from the power peak in the gamma-ray band to the incoherent photon peak in the optical/IR. We have made progress on the multiwavelength phenomenology of pulsar emission and beaming, but a wide variation of light curves between different objects and different energy bands makes the full story complex. I sketch here a `Unified Model' of pulsar beaming and summarize the radiation mechanisms and their interplay in outer magnetosphere models of pulsar high energy emission.
6 pages, 3 figures, to appear in proceedings of the conference "Radio Pulsars" held in Chania, Crete, Sept 2002
6 pages, 3 figures, to appear in proceedings of the conference "Radio Pulsars" held in Chania, Crete, Sept 2002