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We present the first fully relativistic prediction of the electromagnetic emission from the surrounding gas of a supermassive binary black hole system approaching merger. Using a ray-tracing code to post-process data from a general…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-10-17 Stéphane d'Ascoli , Scott C. Noble , Dennis B. Bowen , Manuela Campanelli , Julian H. Krolik , Vassilios Mewes

We have estimated fluxes of neutrinos and gamma-rays that are generated from decays of charged and neutral pions from a pulsar surrounded by supernova ejecta in our galaxy, including an effect that has not been taken into consideration,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 S. Nagataki

Be/$\gamma$-ray binaries comprise a confirmed or presumptive pulsar orbiting a Be star and emit luminous $\gamma$-rays. Non-thermal emissions are thought to arise from synchrotron radiation and inverse-Compton (IC) scattering in the shock…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-02-21 A. M. Chen , J. Takata

The stellar binary $\eta$ Carinae has been observed during its full orbital period in gamma rays by the Fermi-Large Area Telescope (LAT). The shock-accelerated electrons in the colliding winds of the two stars radiate synchrotron photons in…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-01-03 Nayantara Gupta , Soebur Razzaque

The Galactic high-mass X-ray binary and jet source (microquasar) LSI +61 303 has recently been detected at TeV gamma-ray energies by the MAGIC telescope. We have applied a time-dependent leptonic jet model to the broadband spectral energy…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 Swati Gupta , Markus Boettcher

Compact binary mergers, detected in gravitational waves since 2015, are candidate sources for astrophysical neutrinos in the GeV regime from proton-proton and proton-neutron collisions. This contribution presents the results of the search…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-07-21 Karlijn Kruiswijk , Mathieu Lamoureux , Matthias Vereecken , Gwenhaël de Wasseige

We detected X-ray emission from PSR B1800-21 and its synchrotron nebula with the Chandra X-ray Observatory. The pulsar's observed flux is (1.4+/-0.2) 10^{-14} ergs cm^{-2} s^{-1} in the 1-6 keV band. The spectrum can be described by a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 O. Kargaltsev , G. G. Pavlov , G. P. Garmire

Context. Binary systems of supermassive black holes are expected to be strong sources of long gravitational waves prior to merging. These systems are good candidates to be observed with forthcoming space-borne detectors. Only a few of these…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-04-13 Gustavo E. Romero , Gabriela S. Vila , Daniela Pérez

Pulsar halos (also termed 'TeV halo') are a new class of $\gamma$-ray sources in Galaxy, which manifest as extended $\gamma$-ray emission around middle-age pulsars, as discovered around the Geminga pulsar, the Monogem pulsar and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-02-01 Qi-Zuo Wu , Chao-Ming Li , Xuan-Han Liang , Chong Ge , Ruo-Yu Liu

We calculate the evolution of close binary systems (CBSs) formed by a neutron star (behaving as a radio pulsar) and a normal donor star, evolving either to helium white dwarf (HeWD) or ultra short orbital period systems. We consider X-ray…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-18 O. G. Benvenuto , M. A. De Vito , J. E. Horvath

We observed the young pulsar J1357--6429 with the {\it Chandra} and {\it XMM-Newton} observatories. The pulsar spectrum fits well a combination of absorbed power-law model ($\Gamma=1.7\pm0.6$) and blackbody model ($kT=140^{+60}_{-40}$ eV,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-28 Chulhoon Chang , George G. Pavlov , Oleg Kargaltsev , Yurii A. Shibanov

The discovery of the white dwarf binary system AR Scorpii (AR Sco) with its fascinating non-thermal dominated multi-frequency emission has sparked renewed interest in potential high energy gamma-ray emission from white dwarf pulsars. The…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-02 Q. Kaplan , P. J. Meintjes , K. K. Singh , H. J. van Heerden , F. A. Ramamonjisoa , I. P. van der Westhuizen

It is expected that specific globular clusters can contain up to a hundred of millisecond pulsars. These pulsars can accelerate leptons at the shock waves originated in collisions of the pulsar winds and/or inside the pulsar magnetospheres.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2013-06-21 W. Bednarek , J. Sitarek

LS I +61 303 and LS 5039 are exceptionally rare examples of HMXBs with MeV-TeV emission, making them two of only five known or proposed "gamma-ray binaries". There has been disagreement within the literature over whether these systems are…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-28 M. Virginia McSwain , Paul S. Ray , Scott M. Ransom , Mallory S. E. Roberts , Sean M. Dougherty , Guy G. Pooley

Thanks to the high sensitivity of the instruments on board the XMM-Newton and Chandra satellites, it has become possible to explore the properties of the X-ray emission from hot subdwarfs. The small but growing sample of hot subdwarfs…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-07-27 Sandro Mereghetti , Nicola La Palombara

Microquasars, compact binary systems with an accreting stellar-mass black hole or neutron star, are promising candidates for high-energy particle acceleration. Recently, the LHAASO collaboration reported on the detection of $>100$ TeV…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-01-21 Jose Carpio , Ali Kheirandish , Bing Zhang

The gamma-ray binaries LS 5039 and LS I +61 303 have been detected by Cerenkov telescopes at TeV energies, exhibiting periodic behavior correlated with the orbital period. These gamma-ray binary systems have also been recently detected by…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2010-08-04 Diego F. Torres

The Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope has revolutionized our knowledge of the gamma-ray pulsar population, leading to the discovery of almost 100 gamma-ray pulsars and dozens of gamma-ray millisecond pulsars (MSPs). Although the outer-gap…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-03 A. K. H. Kong , R. H. H. Huang , K. S. Cheng , J. Takata , Y. Yatsu , C. C. Cheung , D. Donato , L. C. C. Lin , J. Kataoka , Y. Takahashi , K. Maeda , C. Y. Hui , P. H. T. Tam

By analogy to Jovian radio emissions powered by the electromagnetic interaction between Jupiter and its moons, we propose that close magnetic-nonmagnetic white-dwarf pairs and white-dwarf planetary systems are strong radio sources. A simple…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Andrew J. Willes , Kinwah Wu

We investigated a wealth of X-ray and gamma-ray spectral energy distribution (SED) and multi-band light curve (LC) data of the gamma-ray binary HESS J0632+057 using a phenomenological intrabinary shock (IBS) model. Our baseline model…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-09-07 Jinyoung Kim , Hongjun An , Kaya Mori