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LS I + 61$^\circ$303 is a high-mass X-ray binary system comprising a massive Be star and a rapidly rotating neutron star. Its spectral energy distribution across multi-wavelengths categorizes it as a $\gamma$-ray binary system. In our…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-06-05 Pengfei Zhang

LS I +61$^\circ$303 is a rare representative of the gamma-ray binaries with a compact object known to be a pulsar. We report on the periodicity and spectral analysis of this source performed with more than 14 years of Fermi/LAT data. The…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-08-16 M. Chernyakova , D. Malyshev , A. Neronov , D. Savchenko

Gamma-ray binaries are stellar systems for which the spectral energy distribution (discounting the thermal stellar emission) peaks at high energies. Detected from radio to TeV gamma rays, the gamma-ray binary LS I 61 303 is highly variable…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-02-22 LAT Collaboration

The high-mass X-ray binary system LS I +61 303 is well known as a rare example of a variable Galactic GeV and TeV gamma-ray emitter. Despite years of study, many aspects of the system remain unclear; the nature of the compact object, the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-13 Jamie Holder

Observations of fast TeV $\gamma$-ray flares from blazars reveal the extreme compactness of emitting regions in blazar jets. Combined with very-long-baseline radio interferometry measurements, they probe the structure and emission mechanism…

Between September 2006 and February 2007, the galactic binary LS I +61 303 was monitored in the TeV band with the VERITAS array of imaging Cherenkov telescopes. These observations confirm LS I +61 303 as a variable TeV gamma-ray source,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-09-28 VERITAS Collaboration , A. Smith

The most peculiar radio characteristics of the TeV emitting high-mass X-ray binary LS I +61{\deg}303 are two periodicities: A large periodic outburst which exhibits the same period as the orbit (phase \Phi) and a second periodicity of 1667…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2011-11-17 L. Zimmermann , V. Grinberg , M. Massi , J. Wilms

The gamma-ray binary LS I +61 303 is composed of a Be star and a compact companion orbiting in an eccentric orbit. Variable flux modulated with the orbital period of ~26.5 d has been detected from radio to very high-energy gamma rays. In…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-02-25 X. Paredes-Fortuny , M. Ribó , V. Bosch-Ramon , J. Casares , O. Fors , J. Núñez

We report on the Swift-BAT detection of a short burst from the direction of the TeV binary LS I +61 303, resembling those generally labelled as magnetar-like. We show that it is likely that the short burst was indeed originating from LS I…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-30 Diego F. Torres , Nanda Rea , Paolo Esposito , Jian Li , Yupeng Chen , Shu Zhang

The Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) reported the first definitive GeV detections of the binaries LS I +61\degree 303 and LS 5039 in the first year after its launch in June, 2008. These detections were unambiguous as a consequence of the…

LS I +61$^{\circ}$ 303 is one of the rare gamma-ray binaries, emitting most of their luminosity in photons with energies beyond 100 MeV. The $\sim$26.5 d orbital period is clearly detected at many wavelengths. Additional aspects of its…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-03-18 Shan-Shan Weng , Lei Qian , Bo-Jun Wang , D. F. Torres , A. Papitto , Peng Jiang , Renxin Xu , Jian Li , Jing-Zhi Yan , Qing-Zhong Liu , Ming-Yu Ge , Qi-Rong Yuan

PSR B1259-63/LS 2883 is a binary system where a 48 ms pulsar orbits a massive Be star with a highly eccentric orbit (e=0.87) with a period of 3.4 years. The system exhibits variable, non-thermal radiation visible from radio to very high…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-20 Matthias Kerschhaggl

Recently, the $\gamma$-ray emission at MeV and GeV energies from the object LMC P3 in the Large Magellanic Cloud has been discovered to be modulated with a 10.3-days period, making it the first extra-galactic $\gamma$-ray binary. This work…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-08-11 Nukri Komin , Maria Haupt , H. E. S. S. Collaboration

The gamma-ray binary LS I +61 303 is one of the brightest Fermi sources, with orbitally modulated emission across the electromagnetic spectrum. Here we present H-alpha spectra of LS I +61 303 that exhibit a dramatic emission burst shortly…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2011-11-02 M. Virginia McSwain

PSR B1259-63 is a gamma-ray binary system hosting a radio pulsar orbiting around a O9.5Ve star, LS 2883, with a period of ~3.4 years. The interaction of the pulsar wind with the LS 2883 outflow leads to unpulsed broad band emission in the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-07-08 M. Chernyakova , D. Malyshev , S. Mc Keague , B. van Soelen , J. P. Marais , A. Martin-Carrillo , D. Murphy

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

PSR B1259-63/LS 2883 is a very high energy (VHE; $E > 100$ GeV) {\gamma}-ray emitting binary consisting of a 48 ms pulsar orbiting around a Be star with a period of $\sim3.4$ years. The Be star features a circumstellar disk which is…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-08-28 Iurii Sushch , Markus Böttcher

The Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) has made the first definitive GeV detections of the binaries LS I +61^{\circ}303 and LS5039 in the first year after its launch in August 2008. These detections were unambiguous because, apart from a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-14 D. Hadasch

We report on the detection of a very rapid TeV gamma-ray flare from BL Lacertae on 2011 June 28 with the Very Energetic Radiation Imaging Telescope Array System (VERITAS). The flaring activity was observed during a 34.6-minute exposure,…