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We interpret $\gamma$-ray flares from the Crab Nebula as the signature of turbulence in the pulsar's electromagnetic outflow. Turbulence is triggered upstream by dynamical instability of the wind's oscillating magnetic field, and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-06-01 Jonathan Zrake

We have examined the recently detected very high energy (VHE) pulsed radiation from the Crab pulsar. According to the observational evidence, the observed emission (>25GeV) peaks at the same phase with the optical spectrum. Considering the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-13 Machabeli George , Osmanov Zaza

The last six years have witnessed major revisions of our knowledge about the Crab Pulsar. The consensus scenario for the origin of the high-energy pulsed emission has been challenged with the discovery of a very-high-energy power law tail…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-04-05 Roberta Zanin

The Crab Nebula and the Pulsar have been pointed several times by the BeppoSAX satellite. We analysed all these observations, summed together, to study the main spectral properties with a good phase resolution. A new accurate estimate of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 E. Massaro , G. Cusumano , M. Litterio , T. Mineo

We discuss non-thermal emission mechanism of the Crab-like pulsars with both a two-dimensional electrodynamical study and a three-dimensional model. We investigate the emission process in the outer gap accelerator. In the two-dimensional…

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

We report a phase-resolved photometric and morphological analysis of UBV data of the Crab pulsar obtained with the 2-d TRIFFID high speed optical photometer mounted on the Russian 6m telescope. By being able to accurately isolate the pulsar…

The inter-glitch timing of the Vela pulsar is characterized by a constant second derivative of the rotation rate. This takes over after the post-glitch exponential relaxation, and is completed at about the time of the next glitch. The…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-06-06 Onur Akbal , M. Ali Alpar , Sarah Buchner , David Pines

Pulsar glitches are rapid spin-up events that occur in the rotation of neutron stars, providing a valuable probe into the physics of the interiors of these objects. Long-term monitoring of a large number of pulsars facilitates the detection…

We present the results of 1.3 mm observations of the Crab Nebula, performed with the MPIfR bolometer arrays at the IRAM 30-m telescope. The maps obtained, of unprecedented quality at these wavelengths, allow a direct comparison with…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Rino Bandiera , Roberto Neri , Riccardo Cesaroni

The coupled evolution of pulsar rotation and inclination angle in the wind braking model is calculated. The oblique pulsar tends to align. The pulsar alignment will affect its spin-down behavior. As a pulsar evolves from the magneto-dipole…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-03-15 H. Tong , F. F. Kou

Our high-time-resolution observations reveal that individual main pulses from the Crab pulsar contain one or more short-lived microbursts. Both the energy and duration of bursts measured above 1 GHz can vary dramatically in less than a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-19 Jared H. Crossley , Jean A. Eilek , Timothy H. Hankins , Jeff S. Kern

We report follow-up observations of the Crab nebula with the PolarLight X-ray polarimeter, which revealed a possible variation in polarization associated with a pulsar glitch in 2019. The new observations confirm that the polarization has…

The high sensitivity and wide frequency coverage of the Murchison Widefield Array allow for the measurement of the spectral scaling of the pulsar scattering timescale, $\alpha$, from a single observation. Here we present three case studies…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-04-17 F. Kirsten , N. D. R. Bhat , B. W. Meyers , J. -P. Macquart , S. E. Tremblay , S. M. Ord

A theory of the spectral "zebra" pattern of the Crab pulsar's high-frequency interpulse (HFIP) radio emission is developed. The observed emission bands are interference maxima caused by multiple ray propagation through the pulsar…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-02-20 Mikhail V. Medvedev

The observed spectra of 9 pulsars for which multiwavelength data are available from radio to $X$- or $\gamma$-ray bands (Crab, Vela, Geminga, B0656+14, B1055-52, B1509-58, B1706-44, B1929+10, and B1951+32) are compared with the spectrum of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2009-08-11 H. Ardavan , A. Ardavan , J. Singleton , J. Fasel , W. Junor , J. Middleditch , M. R. Perez , A. Schmidt , P. Sengupta , P. Volegov

Interpretation of the recently discovered very high energy (VHE) pulsed emission from the Crab pulsar is presented. By taking into account the fact that Crab pulsar's radiation for the optical and VHE spectrum peak at the same phases, we…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2009-08-10 Machabeli George , Osmanov Zaza

In the present paper we construct a self-consistent theory, interpreting the observations of the MAGIC Cherenkov Telescope of the very high energy (VHE) pulsed emission from the Crab pulsar. In particular, on the basis of the Vlasov's…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2011-03-18 N. Chkheidze , G. Machabeli , Z. Osmanov

In October 1997, radio pulses from the Crab Pulsar underwent abnormal delay. This was reported by two radio observatories, both of which explained this frequency dependent and time varying delay as being due to refractive effects of ionized…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-01-27 M. Vivekanand

PSR J0537$-$6910 is the most active glitching pulsar with a glitch rate $\sim0.3$ yr $^{-1}$. We have reanalysed 45 glitches of PSR J0537$-$6910 published in the literature and have done post-glitch timing fits within the vortex creep…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-06-08 Onur Akbal , Erbil Gügercinoğlu , M. Ali Alpar

We investigate polarization of high-energy emissions from the Crab pulsar in the frame work of the outer gap accelerator. The recent version of the outer gap, which extends from inside the null charge surface to the light cylinder, is used…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 J. Takata , H. K. Chang , K. S. Cheng