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The Large Area Telescope aboard the Fermi spacecraft has detected more than 200 $\gamma$-ray pulsars since its launch in 2008. By concurrently fitting standard geometric model light curves onto Fermi and radio data, researchers have…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-08-30 M. C. Bezuidenhout , C. Venter , A. S. Seyffert , A. K. Harding

In this paper some of the brightest GeV sources observed by the Fermi-LAT were analysed, focusing on their spectral cut-off region. The sources chosen for this investigation were the brightest blazar flares of 3C~454.3 and 3C~279 and the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-01-11 C. Romoli , A. M. Taylor , F. Aharonian

Around 160 gamma-ray pulsars were discovered by the Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) since 2008. The most energetic of them, 12 objects with emission above 25 GeV, are suitable candidates for the detection with the current and future…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-08-09 A. Burtovoi , T. Y. Saito , L. Zampieri , T. Hassan

Due to the low gamma-ray fluxes from pulsars above 50 GeV and the small collecting area of space-based telescopes, the gamma-ray emission discovered by the Fermi-LAT in $\sim$150 pulsars is largely unexplored at these energies. In this…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-20 A. McCann

We investigate a stationary pair production cascade in the outer magnetosphere of an isolated, spinning neutron star. The charge depletion due to global flows of charged particles, causes a large electric field along the magnetic field…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Kouichi Hirotani

Some pulsars have their maximum observable energy output in the gamma-ray band, offering the possibility of using these high-energy photons as probes of the particle acceleration and interaction processes in pulsar magnetospheres. After an…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-23 D. J. Thompson

We report on the \textit{Fermi}-LAT observations of the Geminga pulsar, the second brightest non-variable GeV source in the $\gamma$-ray sky and the first example of a radio-quiet $\gamma$-ray pulsar. The observations cover one year, from…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-04-13 LAT Collaboration , A. A. Abdo

The Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) has revolutionized high-energy (HE) astronomy, and is making enormous contributions particularly to gamma-ray pulsar science. As a result of the many new pulsar discoveries, the gamma-ray pulsar…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2011-12-15 C. Venter , T. J. Johnson , A. K. Harding

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

We report the detection of gamma-ray pulsations (> 0.1 GeV) from PSR J2229+6114 and PSR J1048-5832, the latter having been detected as a low-significance pulsar by EGRET. Data in the gamma-ray band were acquired by the Large Area Telescope…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2009-12-04 Fermi LAT collaboration , Fermi Pulsar Timing Consortium

The physical origin of the >0.1 GeV emission detected from Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs) by the Fermi satellite has not yet been completely understood. In this work we consider the GeV light curves of ten GRBs with measured redshift detected by…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-22 L. Nava , G. Vianello , N. Omodei , G. Ghisellini , G. Ghirlanda , A. Celotti , F. Longo , R. Desiante , R. Barniol Duran

We report on gamma-ray observations of the Crab Pulsar and Nebula using 8 months of survey data with the Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT). The high quality light curve obtained using the ephemeris provided by the Nancay and Jodrell Bank…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2012-08-27 The Fermi LAT collaboration , the Fermi Pulsar Timing Consortium , : , A. A. Abdo

Pulsed emission from gamma-ray pulsars originates inside the magnetosphere, from radiation by charged particles accelerated near the magnetic poles or in the outer gaps. In polar cap models, the high energy spectrum is cut off by magnetic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Alice K. Harding

We have used a Monte Carlo simulation of a Polar Cap (PC) model of gamma-ray pulsars to estimate light curves and phase-resolved spectra for sources whose rotational and magnetic axes are oriented so that only one of the magnetic poles…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 Joseph K. Daugherty , Alice K. Harding

We report the detection of gamma-ray emission from PWN Kes 75 and PSR J1846-0258. Through modeling the spectral energy distribution incorporating the new Fermi-LAT data, we find the the observed gamma-ray emission is likely a combination of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-02-01 Samayra M. Straal , Joseph D. Gelfand , Jordan L. Eagle

Based on the Fermi observational data we reveal meaningful constraints for the dependence of the macroscopic conductivity $(\sigma)$ of dissipative pulsar magnetosphere models on the corresponding spin-down rate, $\dot{\mathcal{E}}$. Our…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-06-28 Constantinos Kalapotharakos , Alice K. Harding , Demosthenes Kazanas , Gabriele Brambilla

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

We report the detection of pulsed gamma-rays from the young, spin-powered radio pulsar PSR J2021+3651 using data acquired with the Large Area Telescope (LAT) on the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope (formerly GLAST). The light curve consists…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2009-07-22 A. A. Abdo

We analyse 13 yrs of $\textit{Fermi}$-LAT PASS 8 events from 127 gamma-ray emitting millisecond pulsars (MSPs) in the energy range 0.1$-$100 GeV and significantly detect 118 MSPs. We fit the stacked emission with a log parabola (LP)…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-05-13 Sheridan J. Lloyd , Paula M. Chadwick , Anthony M. Brown

We investigate particle accelerators in rotating neutron-star magnetospheres, by simultaneously solving the Poisson equation for the electrostatic potential together with the Boltzmann equations for electrons, positrons and photons on the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Kouichi Hirotani
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