Comptonization of seed photons with relativistic electrons and spectra of pulsars


  Mukesh K Vyas  ,  Indranil Chattopadhyay  ,  Dipanjan Mitra  
Postdoctoral Fellow, Bar Ilan University
Scientist, ARIES, Nainital, India
Scientist, NCRA, Pune, India

We study the modification of radiation spectrum through external Comptonization with relativistic electrons having either power law or Maxwell Juttner distribution. The analysis investigates the cases that have generalized relativistic regimes of photons as well as electron energy distributions. The implications of the study are shown to be significant in explaining the high energy spectra of AGNs as well as pulsars.