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We derive light curves for the hard gamma-ray emission, at energies up to several TeV, expected from the unique pulsar/Be-star binary system PSR B1259-63. This is the only known system in our galaxy in which a radio pulsar is orbiting a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-05-23 J. G. Kirk , Lewis Ball , Olaf Skjaeraasen

PSR J2032+4127 is a radio-loud gamma-ray-emitting pulsar; it is orbiting around a high-mass Be type star with a very long orbital period of 25-50years, and is approaching periastron, which will occur in late 2017/early 2018. This system…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-03-08 J. Takata , P. H. T. Tam , C. W. Ng , K. L. Li , A. K. H. Kong , C. Y. Hui , K. S. Cheng

We report here on a sequence of 28 observations of the binary pulsar system PSR B1259-63/SS2883 at four radio frequencies made with the Australia Telescope Compact Array around the time of the 2000 periastron passage. Observations made on…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 T. W. Connors , S. Johnston , R. N. Manchester , D. McConnell

PSR B1259-63 is the only known binary system with a radio pulsar from which the non-pulsed radio and X-ray emission was detected. The companion star in this system is a Be star SS 2883. A rapidly rotating radio pulsar is expected to produce…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Maria A. Chernyakova , Andrei F. Illarionov

PSR~J2032+4127 is the only one of gamma-ray binary, that exhibits pulsations in gamma-ray. Previous research has indicated that the pulsar and the Be star MT91 213 orbit each other in a highly eccentric orbit with an extremely long period,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-02-04 Yu-Feng Luo , Shan-Shan Weng , Qing-Zhong Liu , Ming-Yu Ge , Han-Long Peng , Shi-Qi Zhou , Shi-Jie Gao , Yu-Jia Zheng , Yan Zhang

We have performed a series of Chandra X-ray Observatory observations of the gamma-ray binary LS 2883, which is comprised of a young pulsar (PSR B1259-63) orbiting a massive Be star with a period of 1236.7 days. The system was observed in 5…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-09-11 Jeremy Hare , Oleg Kargaltsev , George G. Pavlov , Paz Beniamini

One of the most enigmatic TeV binary systems, LS I +61$^\circ$ 303 exhibits a high degree of flux modulation from radio to TeV wavelengths over a single orbit of the binary system, once every $\sim$26.5 days. The binary system also exhibits…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-17 Payel Kar

Context. Gamma-ray binaries are systems composed of a massive star and a compact object whose interaction leads to particle acceleration up to relativistic energies. In the last fifteen years, a few binaries have been discovered to emit at…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-05-06 G. Martí-Devesa , O. Reimer

The spectral energy distribution from the X-ray to the very high energy regime ($>100$ GeV) has been investigated for the $\gamma$-ray binary system PSR B1259-63/SS2883 as a function of orbital phase within the framework of a simple model…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2009-08-11 Jumpei Takata , Ronald E. Taam

We study the physical processes of the PSR B1259-63 system containing a 47 ms pulsar orbiting around a Be star in a highly eccentric orbit. Motivated by the results of a multiwavelength campaign during the January 1994 periastron passage of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 Marco Tavani , Jonathan Arons

The observed TeV light curve from the $\gamma$-ray binary PSR B1259-63/LS 2883 shows a decrease in the flux at periastron which has not been fully explained by emission mechanisms alone. This observed decrease can, however, be explained by…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-03-22 Iurii Sushch , Brian van Soelen

Non-thermal variable emission from radio to very-high energy gamma rays (VHE; >100 GeV) are the prime characteristics of gamma-ray binaries. The underlying physical processes leading to the observed VHE emission are not well understood, as…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-13 Gernot Maier

The data for VHE (~TeV) gamma rays from young gamma-ray pulsar PSR1509-58 observed in 1996 with the CANGAROO 3.8m Cerenkov imaging telescope are presented, as well as the additional data from March to June of 1997. The high spin-down…

We present observations of the gamma-ray binary PSR B1259-63/LS 2883 with the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) at Bands 3 (97 GHz), 6 (233 GHz), and 7 (343 GHz). PSR B1259-63/LS 2883 consists of a pulsar in a highly…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-11-20 Yutaka Fujita , Akiko Kawachi , Atsuo T. Okazaki , Hiroshi Nagai , Norita Kawanaka , Takuya Akahori

We report the Fermi Large Area Telescope discovery of gamma-ray pulsations from the 22.7 ms pulsar A in the double pulsar system J0737-3039A/B. This is the first mildly recycled millisecond pulsar (MSP) detected in the GeV domain. The 2.7 s…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-15 L. Guillemot , M. Kramer , T. J. Johnson , H. A. Craig , R. W. Romani , C. Venter , A. K. Harding , R. D. Ferdman , I. H. Stairs , M. Kerr

Aims. The aim of this paper is to analyse the previously discovered discontinuity of the periodicity of the GeV $\gamma$-ray emission of the radio-loud X-ray binary LS I +61{\deg}303 and to determine its physical origin. Methods. We used…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-12-08 F. Jaron , M. Massi

LS I +61 303 is an exceptionally rare example of a high mass X-ray binary (HMXB) that also exhibits MeV-TeV emission, making it one of only a handful of "gamma-ray binaries". Here we present H-alpha spectra that show strong variability…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2011-01-27 M. Virginia McSwain , Erika D. Grundstrom , Douglas R. Gies , Paul S. Ray

1FGL J1018.6-5856 is a high mass gamma-ray binary containing a compact object orbiting around a massive star with a period of 16.544 d. If the compact object is a pulsar, non-thermal emissions are likely produced by electrons accelerated at…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-08-19 A. M. Chen , C. W. Ng , J. Takata , Y. W. Yu

Recently, the $\gamma$-ray emission at MeV and GeV energies from the object LMC P3 in the Large Magellanic Cloud has been discovered to be modulated with a 10.3-days period, making it the first extra-galactic $\gamma$-ray binary. This work…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-08-11 Nukri Komin , Maria Haupt , H. E. S. S. Collaboration

The gamma-ray binary 1FGL J1018.6-5856 consists of an O6V((f)) type star and an unknown compact object, and shows orbitally modulated emission from radio to very high energy gamma rays. The X-ray light curve shows a maximum around the same…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-07-06 B. van Soelen , S. Mc Keague , D. Malyshev , M. Chernyakova , N. Komin , N. Matchett , I. M. Monageng