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It has been suggested that the prompt emission in gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) could be described by radiation from the photosphere in a hot fireball. Such models must be tested by directly fitting them to data. In this work we use data from the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-01-30 Björn Ahlgren , Josefin Larsson , Erik Ahlberg , Christoffer Lundman , Felix Ryde , Asaf Pe'er

In more than four years of observation the Large Area Telescope on board the Fermi satellite has identified pulsed $\gamma$-ray emission from more than 80 young pulsars, providing light curves with high statistics. Fitting the observations…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-02-11 M. Pierbattista , A. K. Harding , I. A. Grenier , T. J. Johnson , P. A. Caraveo , M. Kerr , P. L. Gonthier

The Fermi bubbles are two large structures in the gamma-ray sky extending to $55^\circ$ above and below the Galactic center. We analyze 50 months of Fermi Large Area Telescope data between 100 MeV and 500 GeV above $10^\circ$ in Galactic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-09-22 LAT Collaboration

This thesis research focusses on the study of the young and energetic isolated ordinary pulsar population detected by the Fermi gamma-ray space telescope. We compared the model expectations of four emission models and the LAT data. We found…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-09-25 Marco Pierbattista

Gamma-ray emission from pulsars is thought to arise from accelerating regions in pulsar's outer magnetosphere. The shape of the light curves is thus sensitive to the details of the magnetic geometry of the magnetosphere. In this work, we…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2009-11-03 Xue-Ning Bai , Anatoly Spitkovsky

The Fermi Gamma-Ray Space Telescope has discovered many gamma-ray pulsars, both as radio-loud objects and radio-quiet or radio-weak pulsars that have been identified through blind period searches. The latter presumably have gamma-ray beams…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2010-02-02 Marco Pierbattista , Isabelle Grenier , Alice Harding , Peter Gonthier

Pulsars' gamma-ray luminosities are thought to exceed their radio luminosities by several orders of magnitude: a notion that is based on the assumption that the decay with distance of the flux of gamma-ray pulses obeys the inverse-square…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-01-25 Houshang Ardavan

We use 7 years of electron and positron Fermi-LAT data to search for a possible excess in the direction of the Sun in the energy range from 42 GeV to 2 TeV. In the absence of a positive signal we derive flux upper limits which we use to…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-01-15 A. Cuoco , P. De La Torre Luque , F. Gargano , M. Gustafsson , F. Loparco , M. N. Mazziotta , D. Serini

The prevalent view that the radio-loud gamma-ray pulsars have gamma-ray luminosities that exceed their radio luminosities by several orders of magnitude is based on the assumption that the decay with distance of their gamma-ray fluxes obeys…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-03-02 Houshang Ardavan

We present observations of HESS J1640-465 with the Fermi-LAT. The source is detected with high confidence as an emitter of high-energy gamma-rays. The spectrum lacks any evidence for the characteristic cutoff associated with emission from…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-18 P. Slane , D. Castro , S. Funk , Y. Uchiyama , A. Lemiere , J. D. Gelfand , M. Lemoine-Goumard

We report the results from our analysis of the \textit{Fermi} Large Area Telescope data of the \textit{Fermi} unassociated source 2FGL J1906.5$+$0720, which is a high-ranked candidate pulsar. In order to better study our target, we first…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-18 Yi Xing , Zhongxiang Wang

The pulsar light curves and energy spectra are explored in dissipative pulsar magnetospheres with the Aristotelian electrodynamics (AE), where particle acceleration is fully balanced with radiation reaction. The AE magnetospheres with…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-02-09 Gang Cao , Xiongbang Yang

Understanding the physics of rotation-powered millisecond pulsars (MSPs) presents a number of challenges compared to that of the non-recycled pulsar population. Even though their fast rotation rates can produce high spin-down power and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-04-06 Alice K. Harding

The dramatic increase in the number of known gamma-ray pulsars since the launch of the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope (formerly GLAST) offers the first opportunity to study a population of these high-energy objects. This catalog summarizes…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-13 A. A. Abdo

The quasi-thermal components found in many Fermi gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) imply that the photosphere emission indeed contributes to the prompt emission of many GRBs. But whether the observed spectra empirically fitted by the Band function or…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-09-02 Yan-Zhi Meng , Liang-Duan Liu , Jun-Jie Wei , Xue-Feng Wu , Bin-Bin Zhang

The goal of our work is to study the mode changes of the radio-quiet gamma-ray pulsar PSR J2021+4026 with improved detail. By accurately characterizing variations in the gamma-ray spectrum and pulse profile, we aim to relate the Fermi-LAT…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-03-13 A. Fiori , M. Razzano , A. K. Harding , M. Kerr , R. P. Mignani , P. M. Saz Parkinson

We present the first systematic study of explosive dispersal outflows (EDOs) as potential sources of high-energy emission in the Milky Way. EDOs are energetic outflows produced during dynamical interactions in young, massive star-forming…

Pulsars are powerful sources of radiation across the electromagnetic spectrum. This paper highlights some theoretical insights into non-thermal, magnetospheric pulsar gamma-ray radiation. These advances have been driven by NASA's Fermi…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-20 Matthew G. Baring

Recent kinetic simulations sparked a debate regarding the emission mechanism responsible for pulsed GeV $\gamma$-ray emission from pulsars. Some models invoke curvature radiation, while other models assume synchrotron radiation in the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-02-16 Monica Barnard , Christo Venter , Alice K. Harding , Constantinos Kalapotharakos , Tyrel J. Johnson

High energy electrons and positrons from decaying dark matter can produce a significant flux of gamma rays by inverse Compton off low energy photons in the interstellar radiation field. This possibility is inevitably related with the dark…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-11-20 Le Zhang , Christoph Weniger , Luca Maccione , Javier Redondo , Guenter Sigl