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PSR B1259-63/LS 2883 is an elliptical pulsar/Be star binary and emits broadband emissions from radio to TeV $\gamma$-rays. The massive star possesses an equatorial disc, which is inclined with the orbital plane of the pulsar. The…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-07-09 A. M. Chen , J. Takata , S. X. Yi , Y. W. Yu , K. S. Cheng

PSR B1259-63/LS 2883 is a binary system in which a 48-ms pulsar orbits around a Be star in a high eccentric orbit with a long orbital period of about 3.4 yr. It is special for having asymmetric two-peak profiles in both the X-ray and the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-05 S. W. Kong , K. S. Cheng , Y. F . Huang

The detection of TeV gamma-rays from LS 5039 and the binary pulsar PSR B1259-63 by HESS, and from LS I +61 303 and the stellar-mass black hole Cygnus X-1 by MAGIC, provides a clear evidence of very efficient acceleration of particles to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-23 J. M. Paredes

PSR B1259-63/LS 2883 is a very high energy (VHE; E > 100 GeV) gamma-ray emitting binary consisting of a 48 ms pulsar orbiting around a Be star with a period of 3.4 years. The Be star features a circumstellar disk which is inclined with…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-09-07 Iurii Sushch , Markus Böttcher

PSR B1259-63/SS 2883 is a binary system in which a 48-ms pulsar orbits around a Be star in a high eccentric orbit with a long orbital period of about 3.4 yr. Extensive broadband observational data are available for this system from radio…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-28 S. W. Kong , Y. W. Yu , Y. F. Huang , K. S. Cheng

PSR B1259-63 is a 47ms radio pulsar with a high spin-down luminosity which is in a close, highly eccentric 3.5-year orbit about a bright stellar companion. The binary system may be a detectable source of hard gamma-rays produced by inverse…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Lewis Ball , Jennifer Dodd

The observed TeV light curve from the $\gamma$-ray binary PSR B1259-63/LS 2883 shows a decrease in the flux at periastron which has not been fully explained by emission mechanisms alone. This observed decrease can, however, be explained by…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-03-22 Iurii Sushch , Brian van Soelen

The binary system PSR B1259-63/LS 2883 consists of a 47.8 ms radio pulsar that orbits the companion Be star with a period of 3.4 years in a highly eccentric orbit. The system is well sampled in radio, X-rays, and TeV gamma-rays, and shows…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2012-08-01 P. H. Thomas Tam , Regina H. H. Huang , Jumpei Takata , C. Y. Hui , Albert K. H. Kong , K. S. Cheng

PSR B1259-63/LS2883 is a binary system composed of a pulsar and a Be star. The Be star has an equatorial circumstellar disk (CD). The {\it Fermi} satellite discovered unexpected gamma-ray flares around 30 days after the last two periastron…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-08-09 Shu-Xu Yi , K. S. Cheng

PSR 1259-63 is a radio pulsar orbiting a Be star in a highly eccentric orbit. Soft and hard X-rays are observed from this binary system. We apply the shock powered emission model to this system. The collision of the pulsar and Be star winds…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 K. Murata , H. Tamaki , H. Maki , N. Shibazaki

Three binaries are now established sources of emission at very high energies (>1e11 eV). They are composed of a massive star and a compact object. The emission can be due to the interaction of the relativistic wind from a young ms pulsar…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Guillaume Dubus

PSR B1259-63 is a gamma-ray binary system composed of a high spindown pulsar and a massive star. Non-thermal emission up to TeV energies is observed near periastron passage, attributed to emission from high energy e+e- pairs accelerated at…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-16 G. Dubus , B. Cerutti

We report the discovery of very-high-energy (VHE) gamma-ray emission of the binary system PSR B1259-63/SS 2883 of a radio pulsar orbiting a massive, luminous Be star in a highly eccentric orbit. The observations around the 2004 periastron…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 F. Aharonian

The high-energy gamma-ray emission discovered using the H.E.S.S. telescopes from the binary system PSR B1259 -63, is modelled using an extension of the approach that successfully predicted it. We find that the simultaneous INTEGRAL and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 J. G. Kirk , Lewis Ball , S. Johnston

The binary system PSR B1259-63 consists of a 48 ms pulsar in a 3.4 year orbit around a Be star and unpulsed TeV gamma-ray emission has been detected near previous periastron passages. A likely source of the gamma-rays is the inverse Compton…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-20 B. van Soelen , P. J. Meintjes

Gamma-ray binaries are binary systems where the energy flux peaks in the gamma-ray energy band. They harbour a compact object (a neutron star or a black hole) orbiting around a massive star that provides a strong radiation field. It is…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-10-03 Iurii Sushch , Brian van Soelen

PSR B1259-63/LS 2883 is a very high energy (VHE; $E > 100$ GeV) {\gamma}-ray emitting binary consisting of a 48 ms pulsar orbiting around a Be star with a period of $\sim3.4$ years. The Be star features a circumstellar disk which is…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-08-28 Iurii Sushch , Markus Böttcher

We consider propagation of very high energy (VHE) gamma-rays in the radiation field of a massive star in the binary system Cen X-3, which has been reported as a source of gamma-ray photons in the GeV and TeV energies. VHE gamma-rays or…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-05-23 W. Bednarek

We consider nebulae which are created around binary systems containing rotation powered pulsars and companion stars with strong stellar winds. It is proposed that the stellar and pulsar winds have to mix at some distance from the binary…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-02-12 W. Bednarek , J. Sitarek

LS 5039 and LSI +61$\degr$303 are two binaries that have been detected in the TeV energy domain. These binaries are composed of a massive star and a compact object, possibly a young pulsar. The gamma-ray emission would be due to particle…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Benoit Cerutti , Guillaume Dubus , Gilles Henri