First Detection of the Crab Pulsar above 100 GeV
High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
2019-08-13 v1
Abstract
We present the detection of pulsed gamma-ray emission from the Crab pulsar above 100 GeV with the VERITAS array of atmospheric Cherenkov telescopes. Gamma-ray emission at theses energies was not expected in pulsar models. The detection of pulsed emission above 100 GeV and the absence of an exponential cutoff makes it unlikely that curvature radiation is the primary production mechanism of gamma rays at these energies.
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@article{arxiv.1208.2035,
title = {First Detection of the Crab Pulsar above 100 GeV},
author = {A. Nepomuk Otte},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1208.2035},
year = {2019}
}
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5 pages, proceedings of the TAUP 2011 conference in Munich, Germany