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P.L. Gonthier, J. Berrier (Department of Physics and Engineering), M.S. Ouellette (Michigan State University, Physics and Astronomy Department), S. O'Brien (University of Notre Dame, Department of Physics), A.K. Harding (NASA - Goddard Space Flight Center)
We simulate the characteristics of the Galactic population of radio and gamma-ray pulsars using Monte Carlo techniques. At birth, neutron stars are spatially distributed with supernova-kick velocities in the Galactic disk and randomly dispersed in age back to 109 years. They are evolved in the Galactic gravitational potential to the present time. From a radio luminosity model, the radio flux is filtered through a selected set of radio-survey parameters. Using the features of recent polar cap acceleration models invoking space-charge-limited flow, a pulsar death region further attenuates the population and radio-loud pulsars are assigned gamma-ray luminosities. In this paper, we will discuss detailed comparisons between the characteristics of calculated pulsars and those of observed pulsars. We will present predictions of the number of radio-loud, gamma-ray pulsars observed by EGRET and GLAST.
This work was supported in part by the NSF grant no. SAA 9876670, NSF-REU, Research Corporation, and Michigan Space Grant Consortium.
The author(s) of this abstract have provided an email address for comments about the abstract: gonthier@physics.hope.edu