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Observations of the PSR B1259-63/SS2883 binary system using the CANGAROO-II Cherenkov telescope are reported. This nearby binary consists of a 48msec radio pulsar in a highly eccentric orbit around a Be star, and offers a unique laboratory…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 A. Kawachi , T. Naito , J. R. Patterson , P. G. Edwards , CANGAROO-II Collaboration

PSR B1259-63 is a middle-aged radio pulsar (P=48 ms, tau=330 kyr, Edot=8.3*10^{35} erg/s) in an eccentric binary (P_orb =3.4 yr, e=0.87) with a high-mass Be companion, SS 2883. We observed the binary near apastron with the Chandra ACIS…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-20 George G. Pavlov , Chulhoon Chang , Oleg Kargaltsev

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

Although pulsars can radiate electromagnetic wave from radio to gamma ray bands, we still have no a united model to understand the multi-band emission. In this paper the effort for a joint model is presented. The inverse Compton scattering…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 G. J. Qiao , K. J. Lee , H. G. Wang , R. X. Xu

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

There are now a half dozen young pulsars detected in high energy photons by the Compton GRO, showing a variety of emission efficiencies and pulse profiles. We present here a calculation of the pattern of high energy emission on the sky in a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-22 Roger W. Romani , I. -A. Yadigaroglu

The X-ray and gamma-ray spectrum of rotation-powered millisecond pulsars is investigated in a model for acceleration and pair cascades on open field lines above the polar caps. Although these pulsars have low surface magnetic fields, their…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 Alice K. Harding , Vladimir V. Usov , Alex G. Muslimov

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

We argue that the bright flare of the binary pulsar \object{PSR B1259$-$63/LS2883} detected by the {\it Fermi} Large Area Telescope (LAT), is due to the inverse Compton (IC) scattering of the unshocked electron-positron pulsar wind with a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2012-05-29 D. Khangulyan , F. A. Aharonian , S. V. Bogovalov , M. Ribo

We discuss growing evidence that pulsar high energy is emission is generated via Inverse Compton mechanism. We reproduce the broadband spectrum of Crab pulsar, from UV to very high energy gamma-rays - nearly ten decades in energy, within…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-11 Maxim Lyutikov

We present the results of modelling of the radio spectrum evolution and dispersion measure variations of PSR B1259-63, a pulsar in a binary system with Be star LS 2883. We base our model on a hypothesis that the observed variations of the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-09-18 O. Koralewska , J. Kijak , W. Lewandowski

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

(abridged) Although discovered 40 years ago, the emission mechanism responsible for the observed pulsar radiation remains unclear. However, the high-energy pulsed emission is usually explained in the framework of either the polar cap or the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-13 J. Petri

We reproduce the broadband spectrum of Crab pulsar, from UV to very high energy gamma-rays - nearly ten decades in energy, within the framework of the cyclotron-self-Compton model. Emission is produced by two counter-streaming beams within…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-11 Maxim Lyutikov

Gamma-ray binaries are orbital modulated gamma-ray sources in the Galaxy detected both at GeV and TeV energies. The high-energy radiation may come from the interaction of energetic electrons injected by a young pulsar and photons from the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2009-12-21 B. Cerutti , G. Dubus , G. Henri

We develop a model for gamma-ray emission from the outer magnetosphere of pulsars (the outer-gap model). The charge depletion causes a large electric field which accelerates electrons and positrons. We solve the electric field with…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Junpei Takata , Sinpei Shibata , Kouichi Hirotani

Gamma-ray binaries are systems composed of a massive star and a compact object that produce emission from radio to very high energy gamma-rays. LS I +61 303 is one of the only six gamma-ray binaries discovered so far. It is thought that…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-04-24 B. Marcote

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

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

The energetic pulsar, PSR J2032+4127, has been recently discovered in the direction of the unidentified HEGRA TeV gamma-ray source (TeV J2032+4130). It is proposed that this pulsar forms a binary system with the Be type star, MT91 213,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-11-07 Wlodek Bednarek , Piotr Banasinski , Julian Sitarek