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We present a new pulsar wind nebula (PWN) model solving both advection and diffusion of non-thermal particles in a self-consistent way to satisfy the momentum and energy conservation laws. Assuming spherically symmetric (1--D) steady…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-11-28 Wataru Ishizaki , Katsuaki Asano , Kyohei Kawaguchi

The elongated bright structures above solar flare loops are suggested to be current sheets, where magnetic reconnection takes place. Observations have revealed various characteristics of the current sheet; however, their physical origin…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-02-21 Zining Ren , Yulei Wang , Xin Cheng , Mingde Ding

In this paper, we compute a full atlas of radio, X-ray and $\gamma$-ray pulse profiles relying on the force-free magnetosphere model. Our goal is to use such data bank of multi-wavelength profiles to fit a substantial number of radio-loud…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-07-17 Jérôme Pétri

Magnetic reconnection is thought to be the driver for many explosive phenomena in the universe. The energy release and particle acceleration during reconnection have been proposed as a mechanism for producing high-energy emissions and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-04-10 Fan Guo , Yi-Hsin Liu , William Daughton , Hui Li

X-ray pulsars shine thanks to the conversion of the gravitational energy of accreted material to X-ray radiation. The accretion rate is modulated by geometrical and hydrodynamical effects in the stellar wind of the pulsar companions and/or…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-04-25 Roland Walter , Carlo Ferrigno

Bow Shock Pulsar Wind Nebulae are a class of non-thermal sources, that form when the wind of a pulsar moving at supersonic speed interacts with the ambient medium, either the ISM or in a few cases the cold ejecta of the parent supernova.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-07-30 N. Bucciantini

Pulsars are famous for their rotational stability. Most of them steadily spin down and display a highly repetitive pulse shape. But some pulsars experience timing irregularities such as nulling, intermittency, mode changing and timing…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-09-23 Lev Arzamasskiy , Alexander Philippov , Alexander Tchekhovskoy

The main contribution to the pulsar power can be calculated by assuming a rotating magnetically-dominated magnetosphere described by the force-free approximation. Although this simple model has been used thoroughly to study pulsar…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-07-18 Federico Carrasco , Carlos Palenzuela , Oscar Reula

The pulsar wind model is updated by considering the effect of particle density and pulsar death. It can describe both the short term and long term rotational evolution of pulsars consistently. It is applied to model the rotational evolution…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-23 F. F. Kou , H. Tong

The current state of the art in the modeling of pulsar magnetospheres invokes either the vacuum or force-free limits for the magnetospheric plasma. Neither of these limits can simultaneously account for both the plasma currents and the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-28 Jason Li , Anatoly Spitkovsky , Alexander Tchekhovskoy

In their catalogue of pulsars' radio spectra, Swainston et al. (2022, PASA, 39, e056) distinguish between five different forms of these spectra: those that can be fitted with (i) a simple power law, (ii) a broken power law, (iii) a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-03-29 Houshang Ardavan

Relativistic electron-positron winds with strong magnetic fields are considered as a source of radiation for cosmological $\gamma$-ray bursters. Such a wind is generated by a millisecond pulsar with a very strong magnetic field. An…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Vladimir V. Usov

We perform force-free simulations for a neutron star orbiting a black hole, aiming at clarifying the main magnetosphere properties of such binaries towards their innermost stable circular orbits. Several configurations are explored, varying…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-09-08 Federico Carrasco , Masaru Shibata , Oscar Reula

Pulsar magnetospheres are shaped by ultra-relativistic electron/positron plasmas flowing in a strong magnetic field and subject to strong gravitational fields. The former induces magnetospheric currents and space charges responsible for the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-12-09 J. Petri

We present solutions of force-free pulsar magnetospheres coupled with a uniform external magnetic field aligned with the dipole magnetic moment of the pulsar. The inclusion of the uniform magnetic field has the following consequences: The…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-10-17 Konstantinos N. Gourgouliatos , Donald Lynden-Bell

The model for pulsar wind nebulae (PWNe) as the result of the magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) downstream flow from a shocked, relativistic pulsar wind has been successful in reproducing many features of the nebulae observed close to the central…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-04 Xiaping Tang , Roger A. Chevalier

Pulsars out of their parent SNR directly interact with the ISM producing so called Bow-Shock Pulsar Wind Nebulae, the relativistic equivalents of the heliosphere/heliotail system. These have been directly observed from Radio to X-ray, and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-12-09 N. Bucciantini , B. Olmi , L. Del Zanna

Several gamma-ray binaries show extended X-ray emission that may be associated to interactions of an outflow with the medium. Some of these systems are, or may be, high-mass binaries harboring young nonaccreting pulsars, in which the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-28 V. Bosch-Ramon , M. V. Barkov

We perform three-dimensional numerical simulations of stellar winds of early-M dwarf stars. Our simulations incorporate observationally reconstructed large-scale surface magnetic maps, suggesting that the complexity of the magnetic field…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-18 A. A. Vidotto , M. Jardine , J. Morin , J. F. Donati , M. Opher , T. I. Gombosi

The magnetosphere of a rotating pulsar naturally develops a current sheet beyond the light cylinder (LC). Magnetic reconnection in this current sheet inevitably dissipates a nontrivial fraction of the pulsar spin-down power within a few LC…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-11 Dmitri A. Uzdensky , Anatoly Spitkovsky