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White dwarf pulsars as possible cosmic ray electron-positron factories

Kazumi Kashiyama*

Kunihito Ioka† and Norita Kawanaka‡

  • Department of Physics, Kyoto University, Kyoto 606-8502, Japan

  • Theory Center, KEK (High Energy Accelerator Research Organization), Tsukuba 305-0801, Japan

  • *kashiyama@tap.scphys.kyoto-u.ac.jp
  • †kunihito.ioka@kek.jp
  • ‡norita@post.kek.jp
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Phys. Rev. D 83, 023002 – Published 7 January, 2011

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.83.023002

Abstract

We suggest that white dwarf (WD) pulsars can compete with neutron star (NS) pulsars for producing the excesses of cosmic ray electrons and positrons (e±) observed by the PAMELA, ATIC/PPB-BETS, Fermi, and H.E.S.S. experiments. A merger of two WDs leads to a rapidly spinning WD with a rotational energy (∼1050  erg) comparable to the NS case. The birth rate (∼10−2–10−3/yr/galaxy) is also similar, providing the right energy budget for the cosmic ray e±. Applying the NS theory, we suggest that the WD pulsars can in principle produce e± up to ∼10  TeV. In contrast to the NS model, the adiabatic and radiative energy losses of e± are negligible since their injection continues after the expansion of the pulsar wind nebula, and hence it is enough that a fraction ∼1% of WDs are magnetized (∼107–109  G) as observed. The long activity also increases the number of nearby sources (∼100), which reduces the Poisson fluctuation in the flux. The WD pulsars could dominate the quickly cooling e± above TeV energy as a second spectral bump or even surpass the NS pulsars in the observing energy range ∼10  GeV–1  TeV, providing a background for the dark matter signals and a nice target for the future AMS-02, CALET, and CTA experiment.

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