Military Use of Underground Terrain

Abstract

Recent theoretical and observationalinformation indicate that pulsars are experiencing a kick velocityin the direction of the spin-axis. The consequence of this is thathighest energy electrons confined to the neutral sheet will be sweptbackwards and confined by the toroidal field lines pointing back to thebirthplace of the pulsar. Current knowledge of diffusion theory predictsthat the perpendicular diffusion coefficient is much less than theparallel value, with the consequence that TeV electrons in the neutralsheet can be convected to the birthplace without losses. We willdiscuss the constraints and apply this knowledge to the Vela pulsarfor which TeV emission was detected at the birthplace. We will alsoconsider PSR B1706-44 for which unpulsed TeV emission was detected.