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In this paper, we present a detailed hydrodynamical study of the properties of the flow produced by the collision of a pulsar wind with the surrounding in a binary system. This work is the first attempt to simulate interaction of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 S. V. Bogovalov , D. Khangulyan , A. V. Koldoba , G. V. Ustyugova , F. Aharonian

Supermassive black hole binaries (SMBHBs) should be common in galactic nuclei as a result of frequent galaxy mergers. Recently, a large sample of sub-parsec SMBHB candidates was identified as bright periodically variable quasars in optical…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-03-14 M. Charisi , Z. Haiman , D. Schiminovich , D. J. D'Orazio

Gamma-rays can be produced by the interaction of a relativistic jet and the matter of the stellar wind in the subclass of massive X-ray binaries known as "microquasars". The relativistic jet is ejected from the surroundings of the compact…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-08-14 G. E. Romero , S. P. Owocki , A. T. Araudo , R. Townsend , P. Benaglia

PSR B1259-63 is the only known binary system with a radio pulsar from which the non-pulsed radio and X-ray emission was detected. The companion star in this system is a Be star SS 2883. A rapidly rotating radio pulsar is expected to produce…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Maria A. Chernyakova , Andrei F. Illarionov

In a previous study, we investigated the relativistic wind dynamics in the LS 5039 system. In this work, we analyse energetic-particle transport within this modelling context, where we simulate the high-energy particle distribution and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-01-13 Ralf Kissmann , David Huber , Philipp Gschwandtner

The X-ray emission from the wind-wind collision in short-period massive O+O-star binaries is investigated. The emission is calculated from three-dimensional hydrodynamical models which incorporate gravity, the driving of the winds, orbital…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 J. M. Pittard , E. R. Parkin

Recent HESS observations show that microquasars in high-mass systems are sources of VHE gamma-rays. A leptonic jet model for microquasar gamma-ray emission is developed. Using the head-on approximation for the Compton cross section and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Charles D. Dermer , Markus Boettcher

PSR J2032+4127 is a young and rapidly rotating pulsar on a highly eccentric orbit around the high-mass Be star MT91 213. X-ray monitoring of the binary system over a $\sim$4000 day period with Swift has revealed an increase of the X-ray…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-12-27 M. Petropoulou , G. Vasilopoulos , I. M. Christie , D. Giannios , M. J. Coe

We investigate the electromagnetic interaction of a relativistic stellar wind with a planet or a smaller body in orbit around the star. This may be relevant to objects orbiting a pulsar, such as PSR B1257+12 and PSR B1620-26 that are…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 Fabrice Mottez , J. Heyvaerts

The MAGIC collaboration has recently reported correlated X-ray and very high-energy gamma-ray emission from the gamma-ray binary LS I +61 303 during ~60% of one orbit. These observations suggest that the emission in these two bands has its…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-03-17 V. Zabalza , J. M. Paredes , V. Bosch-Ramon

The non-thermal, non-pulsed X-ray emission of MSPs is investigated. As in young pulsars, MSPs emit a relativistic wind, which interacting with the interstellar medium and/or a binary companion can significantly contribute to the non-pulsed…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 K. S. Cheng , Ronald E. Taam , W. Wang

We report on the presence of very rapid hard X-ray variability in the $\gamma$-ray binary LS I +61 303. The results were obtained by analysing NuSTAR data, which show two achromatic strong flares on ks time-scales before apastron. The…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-08-09 Enzo A. Saavedra , Gustavo E. Romero , Valenti Bosch-Ramon , Elina Kefala

Radio pulsars in short-period eccentric binary orbits can be used to study both gravitational dynamics and binary evolution. The binary system containing PSR J1141$-$6545 includes a massive white dwarf (WD) companion that formed before the…

Galactic binary systems that contain a black hole candidate emit hard X-rays in their low luminosity mode. We show that this emission can be understood as due to the Compton scattering of photons from the companion star and/or the accretion…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 M. Georganopoulos , F. A. Aharonian , J. G. Kirk

We observed PSR B1259-63, a young non-accreting pulsar orbiting around a Be star SS 2883, eight times with the Suzaku satellite in 2007, to characterize the X-ray emission arising from the interaction between a pulsar relativistic wind and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2011-02-11 Yasunobu Uchiyama , Takaaki Tanaka , Tadayuki Takahashi , Koji Mori , Kazuhiro Nakazawa

Aims: LS 5039 is an enigmatic high-mass gamma-ray binary which hosts a powerful O6.5V companion, but the nature of the compact object is still to be established using multi-wavelength observations. Methods: We analyzed phase-resolved…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-10-27 M. Falanga , A. M. Bykov , Z. Li , A. M. Krassilchtchikov , A. E. Petrov , E. Bozzo

LS I +61 303 is an exceptionally rare example of a high mass X-ray binary (HMXB) that also exhibits MeV-TeV emission, making it one of only a handful of "gamma-ray binaries". Here we present H-alpha spectra that show strong variability…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2011-01-27 M. Virginia McSwain , Erika D. Grundstrom , Douglas R. Gies , Paul S. Ray

We examine mechanisms that may explain the luminosities and relatively low temperatures of extended X-ray emission in planetary nebulae. By building a simple flow structure for the wind from the central star during the proto, and early,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Noam Soker , Joel H. Kastner

The model of pulsar radio emission is discussed in which a coherent radio emis-sion is excited in a vacuum gap above polar cap of neutron star. Pulsar X and gamma radiation are considered as the result of low-frequency radio emission…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-23 V. M. Kontorovich , A. B. Flanchik

Recent observations of the Vela pulsar have revealed a peculiar connection of its emission in the soft X-ray and radio ranges. We suggest the model of the radio pulse formation in the Vela pulsar, develop the theory of the radio photon…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2009-11-13 S. A. Petrova