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We present the results of observations of the TeV binary LS I +61 303 with the VERITAS telescope array between 2008 and 2010, at energies above 300 GeV. In the past, both ground-based gamma-ray telescopes VERITAS and MAGIC have reported…

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

We present the results of the first multiwavelength observing campaign on the high-mass X-ray binary LS I +61 303 comprising observations at the TeV regime with the MAGIC telescope, along with X-ray observations with Chandra, and radio…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-11-11 MAGIC Collaboration , J. Albert

We report on long-term stability of X-ray modulation apparently synchronized with an orbital period of 3.9 days in the gamma-ray binary LS 5039. Recent observations with the Suzaku satellite in the year 2007, which covered continuously more…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2011-02-11 Tetsuichi Kishishita , Takaaki Tanaka , Yasunobu Uchiyama , Tadayuki Takahashi

We present a multi-epoch, multi-observatory X-ray analysis for 2FHL J1745.1-3035, a newly discovered very high energy Galactic source detected by the Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) located in close proximity to the Galactic Center…

Many of the recently discovered TeV gamma-ray sources are associated with pulsar wind nebulae (PWNe). In fact, they represent the most populous class of Galactic sources at TeV energies. In addition, HESS has also discovered, in a survey of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Chulhoon Chang , Alexander Konopelko , Wei Cui

A large number of new black widow and redback energetic millisecond pulsars with irradiated stellar companions have been discovered through radio searches of unidentified \emph{Fermi} sources. We construct a 3D emission model of these…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-12-24 Zorawar Wadiasingh , Alice K. Harding , Christo Venter , Markus Böttcher

New VLA detections of the variable radio continuum source VLA J181335.1$-$174957, associated with the energetic X-ray pulsar PSR~J1813$-$1749 and the TeV source HESS J1813-178, are presented. The radio source has a right circular…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-10-24 Sergio A. Dzib , Luis F. Rodríguez , Ramesh Karupussamy , Laurent Loinard , Sac-Nicté X. Medina

The results of a coordinated space-based photometric and ground-based spectroscopic observing campaign on the enigmatic gamma-ray binary LS 5039 are reported. Sixteen days of observations from the MOST satellite have been combined with…

We present an extensive X-ray spectral variability study of the TeV photon-emitting high-energy-peaked BL Lacertae object PG 1553+113, using the data from EPIC-PN camera of XMM-Newton, which observed the source during its operational period…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-05-07 P. U. Devanand , Alok C. Gupta , Paul J. Wiita , V. Jithesh , Archana Gupta

During 1997, the BL Lac object Mkn 501 went into an extraordinary state of high X-ray and TeV gamma-ray activity, lasting more than 6 months. In this paper we report on the TeV emission characteristics of the source in the subsequent years…

Astrophysics · Physics 2018-04-18 The HEGRA Collaboration , F. Aharonian , A. Akhperjanian , J. Barrio

Detailed modeling of the high-energy emission from gamma-ray binaries has been propounded as a path to pulsar wind physics. Fulfilling this ambition requires a coherent model of the flow and its emission in the region where the pulsar wind…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-09-02 Guillaume Dubus , Astrid Lamberts , Sébastien Fromang

Blazars are jetted active galactic nuclei, with the jet aligned along the observer's line of sight. Their spectral energy distributions are dominated by non-thermal emission, with an underlying thermal component at optical/ultraviolet…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-05-07 J. Barnard , B. van Soelen , I. P. van der Westhuizen , M. Böttcher , A. Martin-Carrillo , H. M. Schutte , S. van der Merwe , M. Zacharias

We report the discovery of 70.5 ms pulsations from the X-ray source AX J1838.0-0655 using the Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer (RXTE). PSR J1838-0655 is a rotation-powered pulsar with spin-down luminosity Edot = 5.5e36 ergs/s, characteristic age…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 E. V. Gotthelf , J. P. Halpern

1ES1101-232 is a bright BL Lac of the High frequency peak class. We present here the results of two BeppoSAX observations in which the source has shown a variation of about 30% in flux with a corresponding spectral variability. We interpret…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Wolter , F. Tavecchio , A. Caccianiga , G. Ghisellini , G. Tagliaferri

We report the detection of orbital modulation, a model solution, and X-ray properties of a newly discovered contact binary, 2MASS J11201034$-$2201340. We serendipitously found this X-ray point source outside the error ellipse when searching…

The X-ray source XSS J12270-4859 has been first suggested to be a magnetic cataclysmic variable of Intermediate Polar type on the basis of its optical spectrum and a possible 860 s X-ray periodicity. However further X-ray observations by…

Space Physics · Physics 2012-02-14 J. M. Bonnet-Bidaud , D. de Martino , M. Mouchet , M. Falanga , T. Belloni , N. Masetti , K. Mukai , G. Matt

To understand the nature of the brightest gamma-ray binary system LS 5039, hard X-ray data of the object, taken with the Suzaku and NuSTAR observatories in 2007 and 2016, respectively, were analyzed. The two data sets jointly gave tentative…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-09-10 Hiroki Yoneda , Kazuo Makishima , Teruaki Enoto , Dmitry Khangulyan , Takahiro Matsumoto , Tadayuki Takahashi

Recent Cerenkov observations of the two BL Lac objects PKS 2155-304 and Mkn 501 revealed TeV flux variability by a factor ~2 in just 3-5 minutes. Even accounting for the effects of relativistic beaming, such short timescales are challenging…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 G. Ghisellini , F. Tavecchio , G. Bodo , A. Celotti

Pulsar wind nebula DA~495 (G65.7+1.2) has been extensively observed from radio to TeV $\gamma$-ray bands. We present LHAASO observations of DA~495, revealing an energy-dependent morphology, where an extended source with…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-01-19 The LHAASO Collaboration