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The study of pulsars in the three and a half decades since their discovery has highlighted a handful of issues critical to their understanding. To date there is no consensus on the physical mechanism for their radio radio emission, despite…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Matthew G. Baring

We consider the widespread assumption that coherent pulsar radio emission is based on extended pair production leading to plasma densities highly exceeding the Goldreich-Julian density. We show as an example that the observed low frequency…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Thomas Kunzl , Harald Lesch , Axel Jessner , Alexis von Hoensbroech

In the framework of the three-dimensional (3D) annular gap model with reasonable parameters (the magnetic inclination angle \alpha = 45 deg and the view angle \zeta = 63 deg), we first use the latest hight energy data to self-consistently…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2012-03-16 YuanJie Du , GuoJun Qiao , Wei Wang

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

The high energy emission of rotation powered pulsars is supposed to be produced in "gaps" in the pulsar magnetosphere where charges are accelerated and currents are produced. The rest of the magnetosphere is supposed to be mostly a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-06-13 M. Vivekanand

We present results of a 3D model of optical to gamma-ray emission from the slot gap accelerator of a rotation-powered pulsar. Primary electrons accelerating to high-altitudes in the unscreened electric field of the slot gap reach…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Alice K. Harding , Julie V. Stern , Jaroslaw Dyks , Michal Frackowiak

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 theory of magnetized induced scattering off relativistic gyrating particles is developed. It is directly applicable to the magnetosphere of a pulsar, in which case the particles acquire gyration energies as a result of resonant…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 S. A. Petrova

Extended periods of radio pulsations have been observed for six magnetars, displaying characteristics different from those of ordinary pulsars. In this Letter, we argue that radio emission is generated in a closed, twisted magnetic flux…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-12-18 Shuzhe Zeng , Alexander Philippov , James Juno , Andrei M. Beloborodov , Elena Popova

We present a phase-dependent analysis of the polarized emission from the Crab pulsar based on three sets of observations by the Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE). We found that a phenomenological model involving a simple linear…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-01-15 Denis González-Caniulef , Jeremy Heyl , Sergio Fabiani , Paolo Soffitta , Enrico Costa , Niccolò Bucciantini , Demet Kirmizibayrak , Fei Xie

We have investigated the pulse shape evolution of the Crab pulsar emission in the hard X-ray domain of the electromagnetic spectrum. In particular, we have studied the alignment of the Crab pulsar phase profiles measured in the hard X-rays…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-11-20 S. Molkov , E. Jourdain , J. P. Roques

We present the results of the search for a correlation between giant radio pulses (GRPs) at 1.4 GHz and hard X-rays at 15-75 keV from the Crab pulsar. We made simultaneous ground and satellite observations of the Crab pulsar over 12 hours…

The Crab Pulsar is the prime example of an emitter of giant pulses. These short, very bright pulses are thought to originate near the light cylinder, at $\sim\!1600{\rm\;km}$ from the pulsar. The pulsar's location inside the Crab Nebula…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-03-29 Rebecca Lin , Marten H. van Kerkwijk , Robert Main , Nikhil Mahajan , Ue-Li Pen , Franz Kirsten

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

The Crab pulsar belongs to one of the most studied stellar objects in the sky. Since its accidental detection in 1968, its pulsed emission has been observed throughout most of the electromagnetic spectrum. Although currently one of more…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-11-18 Natalia Lewandowska

The induced Compton scattering of radio emission off the particles of the ultrarelativistic electron-positron plasma in the open field line tube of a pulsar is considered. We examine the scattering of a bright narrow radio beam into the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 S. A. Petrova

We have examined the cyclotron resonance instability developing in the relativistic out-flowing plasma in the pulsar magnetosphere. The instability condition leads to radio emission in the sub-GHz frequency regime which is likely to be seen…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-16 Rahul Basu , Dipanjan Mitra , George I. Melikidze

Since pulsars were discovered as emitters of bright coherent radio emission more than half a century ago, the cause of the emission has remained a mystery. In this Letter we demonstrate that coherent radiation can be directly generated in…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-06-29 Alexander Philippov , Andrey Timokhin , Anatoly Spitkovsky

In the present paper a self-consistent theory, interpreting the VERITAS observations of the very high energy pulsed emission from the Crab pulsar is considered. The photon spectrum between 10MeV and 400GeV can be described by two power-law…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2012-08-13 Nino Chkheidze , George Machabeli , Zaza Osmanov

Recent observations of coherent radiation from the Crab pulsar (Bij et al 2021) suggest the emission is driven by an ultra - relativistic ($\gamma \sim 10^4$), cold plasma flow. A relativistically expanding plasma shell can compress the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-08-03 Almog Yalinewich , Ue-Li Pen