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We extend the two-dimensional two-layer outer gap model to a three-dimensional geometry and use it to study the high-energy emission of the Vela pulsar. We apply this three-dimensional two-layer model to the Vela pulsar and compare the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2011-10-25 Y. Wang , J Takata , K. S. Cheng

We consider the 1.5 years Fermi Large Area Telescope light curves (E > 100 MeV) of the flat spectrum radio quasars 3C 454.3 and PKS 1510-089, which show high activity in this period of time. We characterise the duty cycle of the source by…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 F. Tavecchio , G. Ghisellini , G. Bonnoli , G. Ghirlanda

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

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

Very high-energy (VHE; E>100 GeV) gamma-rays have been detected from a wide range of astronomical objects, such as pulsar wind nebulae (PWNe), supernova remnants (SNRs), giant molecular clouds, gamma-ray binaries, the Galactic Center,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-03-13 P. H. Thomas Tam , Stefan Wagner , Omar Tibolla , Ryan Chaves

We modelled the radio and gamma-ray light curves of millisecond pulsars using outer gap, two-pole caustic, low-altitude slot gap, and pair-starved polar cap geometric models, combined with a semi-empirical conal radio model. We find that no…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-11-04 C Venter , TJ Johnson , AK Harding , JE Grove

The detected high-energy pulsars' population is growing in number, and thus, having agile and physically relevant codes to analyze it consistently is important. Here, we update our existing synchro-curvature radiation model by including a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-09-21 Daniel Íñiguez-Pascual , Daniele Viganò , Diego F. Torres

Since its launch, the Fermi satellite has firmly identified 5 pulsar wind nebulae plus a large number of candidates, all powered by young and energetic pulsars. HESS J1857+026 is a spatially extended gamma-ray source detected by H.E.S.S.…

We review the recent advances in the pulsar high-energy $\gamma$-ray observation and the electrodynamics of the pulsar magnetospheres from the early vacuum model to the recent plasma-filled models by the numerical simulations. The numerical…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-03-12 Gang Cao , Xiongbang Yang , Li Zhang

We present results of more than 13 years of Fermi-LAT data analysis for the Vela pulsar from 60 MeV to 100 GeV and its pulsar wind nebula (PWN), Vela-X, for E > 1 GeV in the off-pulse phases. We find the Vela-X PWN can be best characterized…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-11-11 Alexander Lange , J. Eagle , O. Kargaltsev , Lucien Kuiper , Jeremy Hare

Pulsars are neutron stars, stellar corpses left over after supernova explosions of stars about ten times as massive as our Sun, with densities comparable to the atomic nucleus', spinning with periods from few milliseconds up to few seconds,…

We have performed a Monte-Calro simulation for Galactic population of pulsars and for the $\gamma$-ray observations. We apply outer gap model for the $\gamma$-ray emission process, and study the radiation characteristics as a function of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-27 J. Takata , Y. Wang , K. S. Cheng

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

Current models of pulsar gamma-ray emission use the magnetic field of a rotating dipole in vacuum as a first approximation to the shape of plasma-filled pulsar magnetosphere. In this paper we revisit the question of gamma-ray light-curve…

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

In the advent of next generation gamma-ray missions, we present general properties of spectral features of high-energy emission above $1\MeV$ expected for a class of millisecond, low magnetic field ($\sim 10^9\G$) pulsars. We extend…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 T. Bulik , B. Rudak , J. Dyks

A new picture of pulsar high-energy emission is proposed that is different from both the traditional polar cap and outer gap models, but combines elements of each. The slot gap model is based on electron acceleration along the edge of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Alice Harding , Alexander Muslimov

Pulsars and their pulsar wind nebulae (PWNe) are unique laboratories for extreme astrophysical processes. This dissertation combines Fermi-LAT observations with a time-dependent leptonic PWN model (TIDE) to explore their gamma-ray emission.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-09-17 Wei Zhang

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 population of gamma-ray pulsars, including Crab observed in the TeV range, and Vela detected above 50 GeV, challenges existing models of pulsed high-energy emission. Such models should be universally applicable, yet they should account…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-23 Iwona Mochol , Jerome Petri

We describe a comprehensive pulsar monitoring campaign for the Large Area Telescope (LAT) on the {\em Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope} (formerly GLAST). The detection and study of pulsars in gamma rays give insights into the populations of…