Abstract
Tachyonic Cherenkov fits are performed to the Fermi-LAT γ-ray spectra of the Vela pulsar, PSR J1709 − 4429 and Geminga. The high-energy spectral tails of these pulsars exhibit pronounced subexponential Weibull decay, which can be modeled in a permeable spacetime by a frequency-dependent tachyon mass. The scaling exponent of the tachyon mass defines the Weibull shape parameter of the energy flux, and it also determines whether the radiation is sub- or superluminal. The negative mass-square in the tachyonic Maxwell-Proca equations gives rise to a longitudinal flux component. The radiation is generated by an ultra-relativistic thermal electron plasma via the inertial Cherenkov effect. The transversal and longitudinal γ-ray emission from Geminga is slightly superluminal, whereas γ-rays from the Vela pulsar and PSR J1709 − 4429 are subluminal despite the negative tachyonic mass-square in the dispersion relations.
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