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We model the thermal X-ray profiles of Geminga, Vela and PSR 0656+14, which have also been detected as gamma-ray pulsars, to constrain the phase space of obliquity and observer angles required to reproduce the observed X-ray pulsed…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Alice K. Harding , Alexander G. Muslimov

Because of the relatively broad angular resolution of current gamma-ray instruments in the MeV-GeV energy range, the photons of a given source are mixed with those coming from nearby sources or diffuse background. This source confusion…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-02-06 P. Bruel

Over the last few years, the data obtained using the Large Area Telescope (LAT) aboard the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope has provided new insights on high-energy processes in globular clusters, particularly those involving compact objects…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-02-22 P. H. Thomas Tam , C. Y. Hui , Albert K H. Kong

With the large sample of young gamma-ray pulsars discovered by the Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT), population synthesis has become a powerful tool for comparing their collective properties with model predictions. We synthesised a pulsar…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-05 M. Pierbattista , I. A. Grenier , A. K. Harding , P. L. Gonthier

The telescopes on the Compton Gamma Ray Observatory (CGRO) have observed PSR B1055-52 a number of times between 1991 and 1998. From these data, a more detailed picture of the gamma radiation from this source has been developed, showing…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 D. J. Thompson

We re-examine the outer gap size by taking the geometry of the dipole magnetic field into account. Furthermore, we also consider that instead of taking the gap size at half of the light cylinder radius to represent the entire outer gap it…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 L. Zhang , K. S. Cheng , Z. J. Jiang , P. Leung

We present spectra of pulsed gamma-ray emission expected from millisecond pulsars within the framework of polar-cap models. The spectra are a superposition of three components due to curvature (CR), synchrotron (SR), and Compton…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Tomasz Bulik , Bronislaw Rudak

NASA's Fermi space telescope has provided us with a bountiful new population of gamma-ray sources following its discovery of 150 new gamma-ray pulsars. One common feature exhibited by all of these pulsars is the form of their spectral…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-03-06 Andrew McCann

By comparing the properties of non-recycled radio-loud $\gamma-$ray pulsars and radio-quiet $\gamma-$ray pulsars, we have searched for the differences between these two populations. We found that the $\gamma-$ray spectral curvature of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-01-18 C. Y. Hui , Jongsu Lee , J. Takata , C. W. Ng , K. S. Cheng

The seven known gamma-ray pulsars represent a very small fraction of the more than 1000 presently known radio pulsars, yet they can give us valuable information about pulsar particle acceleration and energetics. Although the theory of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Alice K. Harding

Pulsars are highly magnetized rotating neutron stars, emitting in a broad electromagnetic energy range. Reproducing the observed pulsars population refines our understanding of their formation and evolution scenarios as well as their…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-11-27 Mattéo Sautron , Jérôme Pétri , Dipanjan Mitra , Ludmilla Dirson

We performed deep observations to search for radio pulsations in the directions of 375 unassociated Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) gamma-ray sources using the Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope (GMRT) at 322 and 607 MHz. In this paper we…

Using the outer gap model, we investigate the emission region for the multi-wavelength light curve from energetic pulsars. We assume that gamma-ray and non-thermal X-ray photons are emitted from a particle acceleration region in the outer…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-28 Shota Kisaka , Yasufumi Kojima

Radio timing observations of millisecond pulsars (MSPs) in support of Fermi LAT observations of the gamma-ray sky enhance the sensitivity of high-energy pulsation searches. With contemporaneous ephemerides we have detected gamma-ray…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-15 Lucas Guillemot , Ismaël Cognard , Tyrel J. Johnson , Christo Venter , Alice K. Harding

Radio pulsar timing array (PTA) experiments using millisecond pulsars (MSPs) are beginning to detect nHz gravitational waves (GWs). MSPs are bright GeV gamma-ray emitters, and all-sky monitoring of about 100 MSPs with the Fermi Large Area…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-12-18 Matthew Kerr , Zorawar Wadiasingh , Adrien Laviron , Constantinos Kalapotharakos , Thankful Cromartie , Tyler Cohen

Recent obserbations by Fermi Gamma-Ray Space Telescope of gamma-ray pulsars have revealed further details of the structure of the emission region. We investigate the emission region for the multi-wavelength light curve using outer gap…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2011-11-01 Shota Kisaka , Yasufumi Kojima

Context. More than one hundred GeV pulsars have been detected up to now by the LAT telescope on the Fermi gamma-ray observatory, showing peak energies around a few GeV. Current modelling proposes that the high energy emission comes from…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-11 Ioanna Arka , Guillaume Dubus

We suggest that some observational features of high-energy radiation from pulsars should be explained in terms of three dimensional geometric models, e.g. the phase-resolved X-ray and $\gamma$-ray spectra and the energy dependent light…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 K. S. Cheng

The Fermi space telescope has detected over 100 pulsars. These discoveries have ushered in a new era of pulsar astrophysics at gamma-ray energies. Gamma-ray pulsars, regardless of whether they are young, old, radio-quiet etc, all exhibit a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-13 A. McCann

We discuss $\gamma$-ray emissions from the outer gap accelerators of middle-aged pulsars for part of the series of our studies. A two-dimensional electrodynamic model is used to solve the distribution of accelerating electric fields with…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 J. Takata , H. -K. Chang