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Recently, it was proposed that an off-center dipole magnetic configuration, together with a non-trivial temperature profile, may be the best model to explain the X-ray light curve of PSR J0030+0451 observed by the Neutron Star Interior…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-10-22 Chun Huang , Alexander Y. Chen

The rotating vector model and radius-to-frequency mapping in the presence of multipole magnetic field in pulsars and magnetars are considered. An axisymmetric potential field is assumed. It is found that: (1) The radiation beam in the case…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-10-12 J. L. Qiu , H. Tong , H. G. Wang

We investigate the shapes of \gamma-ray pulsar light curves using 3D pulsar magnetosphere models of finite conductivity. These models, covering the entire spectrum of solutions between vacuum and force-free magnetospheres, for the first…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-05 Constantinos Kalapotharakos , Alice K. Harding , Demosthenes Kazanas , Ioannis Contopoulos

Pulsars emit pulsed emission across the entire electromagnetic spectrum and their light curve phenomenology is strongly dependent on energy. This is also true for the gamma-ray waveband. Continued detections by Fermi Large Area Telescope in…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-11-29 Monica Barnard , Christo Venter , Alice K. Harding , Constantinos Kalapotharakos

The pulsar light curves and energy spectra are explored in dissipative pulsar magnetospheres with the Aristotelian electrodynamics (AE), where particle acceleration is fully balanced with radiation reaction. The AE magnetospheres with…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-02-09 Gang Cao , Xiongbang Yang

The equatorial current sheets outside the light cylinder(LC) are thought as the promising site of the high energy emission based on the results of the recent numerical simulations. We explore the pulsar light curves and energy spectra by…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-03-17 Xiongbang Yang , Gang Cao

We propose a vacuum gap (VG) model which can be applied uniformly for normal and high magnetic field pulsars. The model requires strong and non-dipolar surface magnetic field near the pulsar polar cap. We assume that the actual surface…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Janusz A. Gil , George I. Melikidze , Dipanjan Mitra

Recent modeling of Neutron Star Interior Composition Explorer(NICER) observations of the millisecond pulsar PSR J0030+0451 suggests that the magnetic field of the pulsar is non-dipolar. We construct a magnetic field configuration where foot…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-04-29 Alexander Y. Chen , Yajie Yuan , Georgios Vasilopoulos

We study sky maps and light curves of gamma-ray emission from neutron stars in compact binaries, and in isolation. We briefly review some gamma-ray emission models, and reproduce sky maps from a standard isolated pulsar in the Separatrix…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-02-18 Néstor Ortiz , Federico Carrasco , Stephen R. Green , Luis Lehner , Steven L. Liebling , John Ryan Westernacher-Schneider

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. In this model, the outer gap is divided into two parts, i.e. the main acceleration…

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

We investigate the strong electric current sheet that develops at the tip of the pulsar closed line region through time dependent three-dimensional numerical simulations of a rotating magnetic dipole. We show that curvature radiation from…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-14 Ioannis Contopoulos , Constantinos Kalapotharakos

We investigate the $\gamma$-ray emission from a outer-gap accelerator, which is located in the outer-magnetosphere of a pulsar. The charge depletion from the Goldreich-Julian density causes a large electric field along the magnetic field…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 J. Takata , S. Shibata , K. Hirtotani

A two-dimensional electrodynamical model is used to study particle acceleration in the outer magnetosphere of a pulsar. The charge depletion from the Goldreich-Julian charge density causes a large electric field along the magnetic field…

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

Millisecond pulsars (MSPs) are a growing class of gamma-ray emitters. Pulsed gamma-ray signals have been detected from more than 40 MSPs with the Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT). The wider radio beams and more compact magnetospheres of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-06-24 T. J. Johnson , C. Venter , A. K. Harding , L. Guillemot , D. A. Smith , M. Kramer , O. Celik , P. R. den Hartog , E. C. Ferrara , X. Hou , J. Lande , P. S. Ray

In this article, we derive a magnetic dipole model for two identical, electrically conducting, and permeable spheres that are exposed to an oscillating homogeneous magnetic field. Our model predicts both amplitude and phase of the induced…

Classical Physics · Physics 2022-12-07 Florian Bönsel , Alfred Müller , Rafael Psiuk

A new model for the high-energy emission from pulsars is developed by considering charged particle motion in the fields of a spinning, highly magnetised and conducting sphere in vacuum. A generally applicable approximation to the particle…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 M. G. Higgins , R. N. Henriksen

This thesis research focusses on the study of the young and energetic isolated ordinary pulsar population detected by the Fermi gamma-ray space telescope. We compared the model expectations of four emission models and the LAT data. We found…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-09-25 Marco Pierbattista

Millisecond pulsars (MSPs) have been established as a class of high-energy ($\geq$0.1 GeV) emitters with the Large Area Telescope (LAT) aboard the \emph{Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope}. Most MSP gamma-ray light curves display sharp peaks…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2012-09-19 T. J. Johnson

We report the detection of pulsed gamma-rays for PSRs J0631+1036, J0659+1414, J0742-2822, J1420-6048, J1509-5850 and J1718-3825 using the Large Area Telescope (LAT) on board the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope (formerly known as GLAST).…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2010-01-06 The Fermi LAT collaboration , the Fermi Pulsar Timing Consortium

Observing simultaneously pulsed radio and gamma-ray emission from these stars helps to constrain the geometry and radiation mechanisms within their magnetosphere and to localize the multiple photon production sites. In this paper, we fit…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-10-20 J. Pétri , D. Mitra