Thread: Cosmic Rays From A Mysterious, Nearby Object
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Old 21-November-2008, 05:02 PM
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I think the new pulsar wind model with dome and equatorial emission looks like a good candidate for the high velocity electrons. Nice job here by F. Curtis Michel :http://www.capca.ucalgary.ca/meeting...lks/michel.pdf

see: J0108-1431 in Wiki's pulsar section...~ 200 light-years...See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pulsar
I'm finding that there could be hundreds and thousands of pulsars in our Galaxy. Is this true? All 'dim' pulsars though. Hmm.
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