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(Abridged) Gamma-ray emission from pulsars has long been modeled using a vacuum dipole field. This approximation ignores changes in the field structure caused by the magnetospheric plasma and strong plasma currents. We present the first…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-11-20 Xue-Ning Bai , Anatoly Spitkovsky

The traditional, geometrical rotating vector model (RVM) has proved particularly poor at capturing the polarization sweeps of the young energetic and millisecond pulsars detected by \textit{Fermi}. We augment this model by including finite…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-22 H. A. Craig

The light curves and spectral properties of more than 200 $\gamma$-ray pulsars have been measured in unsurpassed detail in the eight years since the launch of the hugely successful Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) $\gamma$-ray mission. We…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-02-20 Monica Barnard , Christo Venter , Alice K. Harding

Diffusive TeV gamma-ray emissions have been recently discovered extending beyond the pulsar wind nebulae of a few middle-aged pulsars, implying that energetic electron/positron pairs are escaping from the pulsar wind nebulae and radiating…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-11-09 Ruo-Yu Liu

Vela X-1 is one of the most archetypal wind-fed X-ray pulsars (XRPs), and the emergence of its orthogonal polarization states reveals distinctive polarimetric properties. Using data from Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE)…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-11-17 WanYun Wu , Fei Xie , Long Ji , Mingyu Ge , Fabio La Monaca

We calculate gamma-ray spectra of pulsars for a set of electron acceleration models within the polar-cap scenario. We discuss our results in the light of the recent analysis (Kanbach 1999) of temporal properties of the Vela pulsar in the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 J. Dyks , B. Rudak , T. Bulik

The variability of the Vela pulsar (PSR B0833-45) corresponds to well-defined field statistics that vary with pulsar phase, ranging from Gaussian intensity statistics off-pulse to approximately power-law statistics in a transition region…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Iver H. Cairns , P. Das , P. A. Robinson , S. Johnston

Vela X is the prototypical example of a pulsar wind nebula whose morphology and detailed structure have been affected by the interaction with the reverse shock of its host supernova remnant. The resulting complex of filamentary structure…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-10-10 P. Slane , I. Lovchinsky , C. Kolb , S. L. Snowden , T. Temim , J. Blondin , F. Bocchino , M. Miceli , R. A. Chevalier , J. P. Hughes , D. J. Patnaude , T. Gaetz

We investigate polarization of high-energy emissions from the Crab pulsar in the frame work of the outer gap accelerator. The recent version of the outer gap, which extends from inside the null charge surface to the light cylinder, is used…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 J. Takata , H. K. Chang , K. S. Cheng

The recent detection of pulsed $\gamma$-ray emission from the Vela pulsar in the $\sim10$ to 100 GeV range by H.E.S.S. promises an important potential to probe into the very high energy (VHE) radiation mechanisms of pulsars. The recent…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-07-10 Z. Osmanov , F. M. Rieger

The Vela and Geminga pulsars are rotation powered neutron stars, which have been identified in various spectral domains, from the near-infrared to hard $\gamma$-rays. In the near-infrared they exhibit tentative emission excesses, as…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2011-11-16 Andrey A. Danilenko , Dmitry A. Zyuzin , Yuri A. Shibanov , Sergey V. Zharikov

The pulsar emission mechanism in the gamma-ray energy band is poorly understood. Currently, there are several models under discussion in the pulsar community. These models can be constrained by studying the collective properties of a sample…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-08-28 A. U. Abeysekara , J. T. Linnemann

A series of 13 Chandra observations provided the deepest images of the Vela PWN yet available. In addition to the fine structure of the inner PWN features, a much larger and fainter asymmetric X-ray nebula emerges in the summed images. The…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Oleg Kargaltsev , George Pavlov

The light curves of gamma-ray pulsars detected by the Fermi Large Area Telescope show great variety in profile shape and position relative to their radio profiles. Such diversity hints at distinct underlying magnetospheric and/or emission…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-11-10 M. Breed , C. Venter , A. K. Harding , T. J. Johnson

Multicolor photometry of the Vela pulsar (PSR B0833-45), updated by recent HST/WFPC2 observations obtained in the 555W, 675W and 814W filters, is presented. The available data provide the best characterization so far of the pulsar spectral…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 R. P. Mignani , P. A. Caraveo

Vela X-1 is among the best studied and most luminous accreting X-ray pulsars. The supergiant optical companion produces a strong radiatively-driven stellar wind, which is accreted onto the neutron star producing highly variable X-ray…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-03-30 C. Malacaria , T. Mihara , A. Santangelo , K. Makishima , M. Matsuoka , M. Morii , M. Sugizaki

We discuss non-thermal emission mechanism of the Crab-like pulsars with both a two-dimensional electrodynamical study and a three-dimensional model. We investigate the emission process in the outer gap accelerator. In the two-dimensional…

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

We report the results of simultaneous observations of the Vela pulsar in X-rays and radio from the RXTE satellite and the Mount Pleasant Radio Observatory in Tasmania. We sought correlations between the Vela's X-ray emission and radio…

We investigate the motion of the primary beam outside the light cylinder in the pulsar wind. Inside the light cylinder both primary and secondary plasma move along dipole magnetic field lines where their energies can be arbitrary. But at…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-03-11 Lev Arzamasskiy , Vasily Beskin , Vadim Prokofev

A more realistic description of the magnetosphere is crucial for understanding the radiation emitted by pulsars. In this paper, we revisit the annular gap model by employing a rotating dipole field, which is more realistic than the static…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-03-26 Jie Tian , Xin Xu , Qijun Zhi , Jiguang Lu , Shijun Dang , Ke Yang , Xiao Wei , Guojun Qiao