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Recent kinetic simulations sparked a debate regarding the emission mechanism responsible for pulsed GeV $\gamma$-ray emission from pulsars. Some models invoke curvature radiation, while other models assume synchrotron radiation in the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-02-16 Monica Barnard , Christo Venter , Alice K. Harding , Constantinos Kalapotharakos , Tyrel J. Johnson

Millisecond pulsars (MSPs) are a leading explanation of the Galactic Center excess (GCE) observed in Fermi-LAT data. We constrain this scenario by jointly modeling prompt and inverse-Compton $\gamma$ rays from MSP-injected $e^\pm$ on the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-05-27 Jordan Koechler , Pedro De la Torre Luque , Mattia Di Mauro

We use Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope detections and upper limits on non-recycled pulsars obtained from the Large Area Telescope (LAT) to constrain how the gamma-ray luminosity L depends on the period P and the period derivative \dot{P}.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 B. B. P. Perera , M. A. McLaughlin , J. M. Cordes , M. Kerr , T. H. Burnett , A. K. Harding

The Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) has recently reported the detection of pulsed gamma-rays from 6 young pulsars (J0631+1036, J0659+1414, J0742-2822, J1420-6048, J1509-5850, and J1718-3825), all exhibiting single-peaked pulse profiles…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2011-05-23 A. S. Seyffert , C. Venter , O. C. de Jager , A. K. Harding

We have observed a total of 67 pulsars at five frequencies ranging from 243 to 3100 MHz. Observations at the lower frequencies were made at the Giant Metre Wave Telescope in India and those at higher frequencies at the Parkes Telescope in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Simon Johnston , Aris Karastergiou , Dipanjan Mitra , Yashwant Gupta

We use a simple two-layer outer gap model, whose accelerator consists of a primary region and a screening region, to discuss $\gamma$-ray spectrum of mature pulsars detected by $Fermi$. By solving the Poisson equation with an assumed simple…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-19 Y. Wang , J. Takata , K. S. Cheng

(abridged) Gamma-ray pulsars constitute a class of high and very high-energy emitters for which the known population is steadily increasing thanks to the Fermi/Large Area Telescope. In this paper, their gamma-ray luminosity and spectral…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-05 J. Pétri

We detail new force-free simulations to investigate magnetosphere evolution and precursor electromagnetic (EM) signals from binary neutron stars. Our simulations fully follow a representative inspiral motion, capturing the intricate…

We report on the search for 0.1-10 GeV emission from magnetars in 17 months of Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) observations. No significant evidence for gamma-ray emission from any of the currently-known magnetars is found. The most…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-20 LAT collaboration

We report the detection of the pulsed signal of the radio-quiet magnetar-like pulsar PSR J1846-0258 in the high-energy \gr-ray data of the Fermi Large Area Telescope (Fermi LAT). We produced phase-coherent timing models exploiting RXTE PCA…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-01-08 L. Kuiper , W. Hermsen , A. Dekker

The model of stochastic acceleration of particles by turbulence has been successful in explaining many observed features of solar flares. Here we demonstrate a new method to obtain the accelerated electron spectrum and important…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 Vahe Petrosian , Qingrong Chen

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

To observationally study spin-period changes of accreting pulsars caused by the accretion torque, the present work analyzes X-ray light curves of 12 Be binary pulsars obtained by the MAXI/GSC all-sky survey and their pulse periods measured…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-12-20 Mutsumi Sugizaki , Tatehiro Mihara , Motoki Nakajima , Kazuo Makishima

Observations by the Fermi Large Area Telescope of gamma-ray millisecond pulsar light curves imply copious pair production in their magnetospheres, and not exclusively in those of younger pulsars. Such pair cascades may be a primary source…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-07-15 C. Venter , A. Kopp , A. K. Harding , P. L. Gonthier , I. Büsching

All numerical solutions of the pulsar magnetosphere over the past 25 years show closed-line regions that end a significant distance inside the light cylinder, and manifest thick strongly dissipative separatrix surfaces instead of thin…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-01-14 Ioannis Dimitropoulos , Evaggelos Chaniadakis , Ioannis Contopoulos

Strongly magnetic, rapidly rotating B-type stars with relatively weak winds form centrifugal magnetospheres (CMs), as the stellar wind becomes magnetically confined above the Kepler co-rotation radius. Approximating the magnetic field as a…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-02-16 I. D. Berry , S. P. Owocki , M. E. Shultz , A. ud-Doula

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

Modeling of gamma-ray burst (GRB) prompt emission spectra sometimes requires a (quasi-) thermal spectral component in addition to the Band function. In photospheric emission models, a prominent thermal component broadened by…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-09-30 Ramandeep Gill , Jonathan Granot , Paz Beniamini

4FGL J1015.5-6030 is an unidentified Fermi-LAT source hosting a bright, extended X-ray source whose X-ray spectrum is consistent with that of a young pulsar, yet no pulsations have been found. Here we report on XMM-Newton timing and Chandra…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-07-12 Jeremy Hare , Oleg Kargaltsev , George Younes , George G. Pavlov , Igor Volkov

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