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Guillemot et al. recently reported the discovery of $\gamma$-ray pulsations from the 22.7ms pulsar (pulsar A) in the famous double pulsar system J0737-3039A/B. The $\gamma$-ray light curve (LC) of pulsar A has two peaks separated by…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-11-05 A. S. Seyffert , C. Venter , A. K. Harding , T. J. Johnson

In more than four years of observation the Large Area Telescope on board the Fermi satellite has identified pulsed $\gamma$-ray emission from more than 80 young pulsars, providing light curves with high statistics. Fitting the observations…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-02-11 M. Pierbattista , A. K. Harding , I. A. Grenier , T. J. Johnson , P. A. Caraveo , M. Kerr , P. L. Gonthier

The long-standing assumption of symmetric radio emission beams from the two magnetic poles of pulsars is challenged by observational evidence of asymmetry and underfill. Direct testing of this symmetry remains difficult for most pulsars. As…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-05-01 Xiancong Wu , Hongguang Wang , Hao Tong , Rui Luo , Pengfei Wang , Chengbing Lyu , Hai Lei

(abridged) Thanks to the recent discovery by Fermi of about fifty new gamma-ray pulsars, it becomes possible to look for statistical properties of their pulsed high-energy emission, especially their light-curves and phase-resolved spectra.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-20 Jérôme Pétri

Millisecond pulsars are known to show complex radio pulse profiles and polarisation position angle evolution with rotational phase. Small scale surface magnetic fields and multipolar components are believed to be responsible for this…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-09-03 J. Pétri , S. Guillot , L. Guillemot , D. González-Caniule , F. Jankowski , J. -M. Grießmeier , G. Theureau , I. Cognard

Modeling of the NICER X-ray light curves of millisecond pulsars PSR J0030+0451 provides a strong evidence for the existence of non-dipole magnetic fields. We study the X-ray and $\gamma$-ray emission of PSR J0030+0451 in the dissipative…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-01-13 Gang Cao , Xiongbang Yang

We suggest that some observational features of high-energy radiation from pulsars should be explained in terms of three dimensional geometric models, e.g. the phase-resolved X-ray and $\gamma$-ray spectra and the energy dependent light…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 K. S. Cheng

The main issue of the pulsar magnetosphere is how the rotation power is converted into both particle beams which causes pulsed emissions, and a highly relativistic wind of electron-positron plasmas which forms surrounding nebulae shining in…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-30 Tomohide Wada , Shinpei Shibata

In the canonical model of a pulsar, rotational energy is transmitted through the surrounding plasma via two electrical circuits, each connecting to the star over a small region known as a "polar cap." For a dipole-magnetized star, the polar…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-01-03 Samuel E. Gralla , Alexandru Lupsasca , Alexander Philippov

In Basu et al. 2011 we reported the detection of Off-pulse emission from two long period pulsars B0525+21 and B2045-16. The pulsars were observed at a single epoch using the 325 MHz frequency band of the Giant Meterwave Radio Telescope…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2012-10-04 Rahul Basu , Dipanjan Mitra , Ramana Athreya

We report on our analysis of a large sample of energy dependent pulse profiles of the X-ray binary pulsar Hercules X-1. We find that all data are compatible with the assumption of a slightly distorted magnetic dipole field as sole cause of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 S. Blum , U. Kraus

Our ongoing spectroscopic survey of high proper motion stars is a rich source of new magnetic white dwarfs. We present a few examples among cool white dwarfs showing the effect of field strength and geometry on the observed optical…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-01-18 S. Vennes , A. Kawka , L. Ferrario , E. Paunzen

This paper studies the deflection of charged particles in a dipole magnetic field in Schwarzschild spacetime background in the weak field approximation. To calculate the deflection angle, we use Jacobi metric and Gauss-Bonnet theorem. Since…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-12-28 Zonghai Li , Wei Wang , Junji Jia

We model the temperature distribution at the surface of a magnetized neutron star and study the effects on the observable X-ray spectra and light curves, taking fully into account gravitational lensing. Only dipolar fields are considered…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-22 Dany Page

Pulsed gamma-ray emission from millisecond pulsars (MSPs) has been detected by the sensitive Fermi, which sheds light on studies of the emission region and mechanism. In particular, the specific patterns of radio and gamma-ray emission from…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-12 YuanJie Du , GuoJun Qiao , Ding Chen

(adapted)Considering recent observations challenging the traditional magnetar model, we explore the wind braking of magnetars. There is evidence for strong multipole magnetic fields in active magnetars, but the dipole field inferred from…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-05 H. Tong , R. X. Xu , L. M. Song , G. J. Qiao

This paper investigates charged particle deflection in a Kerr spacetime background with a dipole magnetic field, focusing on the equatorial plane and employing the weak field approximation. We employ the Jacobi-Randers metric to unify the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-12-04 Zonghai Li , Junji Jia

The diversity of pulsar light-curves and radio polarisation properties originates in the structure of the magnetic field close to the stellar surface. For millisecond pulsars, this complexity is particularly puzzling. Fortunately, some…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-04-22 J. Pétri , P. Stammler , L. Guillemot , S. Guillot , D. González-Caniulef , F. Jankowski , N. Webb

Rotation-powered pulsars represent the main class of identified gamma-ray sources in the Galaxy. The wealth of observational data collected by the AGILE and Fermi gamma-ray space telescopes in the GeV range, and by ground-based Cherenkov…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-03-12 Benoît Cerutti , Enzo Figueiredo , Guillaume Dubus

In recent years, surprise discoveries of pulsed emission from the Crab and Vela pulsars above 100 GeV have drawn renewed attention to this largely unexplored region of the energy range. In this paper, we discuss example light curves due to…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-08-22 Christo Venter , Monica Barnard , Alice K. Harding , Constantinos Kalapotharakos