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Pulsars emit pulsed emission across the entire electromagnetic spectrum and their light curve phenomenology is strongly dependent on energy. This is also true for the gamma-ray waveband. Continued detections by Fermi Large Area Telescope in…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-11-29 Monica Barnard , Christo Venter , Alice K. Harding , Constantinos Kalapotharakos

The Fermi Large Area Telescope has revolutionised the $\gamma$-ray pulsar field, increasing the population to over 250 detected pulsars. The majority display spectra with exponential cutoffs in a narrow range around a few GeV. Models…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-03-22 M. Barnard

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

The equatorial current sheets outside the light cylinder(LC) are thought as the promising site of the high energy emission based on the results of the recent numerical simulations. We explore the pulsar light curves and energy spectra by…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-03-17 Xiongbang Yang , Gang Cao

The high-quality Fermi LAT observations of gamma-ray pulsars have opened a new window to understanding the generation mechanisms of high-energy emission from these systems. The high statistics allow for careful modeling of the light curve…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2011-11-03 Megan E. DeCesar , Alice K. Harding , M. Coleman Miller , Ioannis Contopoulos , Constantinos Kalapotharakos , Damien Parent

We have simulated a population of young spin-powered pulsars and computed the beaming pattern and lightcurves for the three main geometrical models: polar cap emission, two-pole caustic ("slot gap") emission and outer magnetosphere…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 Kyle P. Watters , Roger W. Romani , Patrick Weltevrede , Simon Johnston

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 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

We suggest that some observational features of high-energy radiation from pulsars should be explained in terms of three dimensional geometric models, e.g. the phase-resolved X-ray and $\gamma$-ray spectra and the energy dependent light…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 K. S. Cheng

We investigate the $\gamma$-ray emission from a outer-gap accelerator, which is located in the outer-magnetosphere of a pulsar. The charge depletion from the Goldreich-Julian density causes a large electric field along the magnetic field…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 J. Takata , S. Shibata , K. Hirtotani

There are now a half dozen young pulsars detected in high energy photons by the Compton GRO, showing a variety of emission efficiencies and pulse profiles. We present here a calculation of the pattern of high energy emission on the sky in a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-22 Roger W. Romani , I. -A. Yadigaroglu

We explore the multiwavelength radiation properties of the light curves and energy spectra in the dissipative magnetospheres of pulsars. The dissipative magnetospheres are simulated by the pseudo-spectral method with the combined force-free…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-03-12 Xiongbang Yang , Gang Cao

We present a new model of high-energy lightcurves from rotation powered pulsars. The key ingredient of the model is the gap region (i.e. the region where particle acceleration is taking place and high-energy photons originate) which…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 J. Dyks , B. Rudak

Intriguing sub-TeV tails in the pulsed $\gamma$-ray emission from the Crab pulsar have been recently discovered by the MAGIC and VERITAS Collaborations. They were not clearly predicted by any pulsar model. It is at present argued that this…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-02-12 W. Bednarek

We investigate the shapes of \gamma-ray pulsar light curves using 3D pulsar magnetosphere models of finite conductivity. These models, covering the entire spectrum of solutions between vacuum and force-free magnetospheres, for the first…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-05 Constantinos Kalapotharakos , Alice K. Harding , Demosthenes Kazanas , Ioannis Contopoulos

The vast majority of the pulsars detected by the Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) display spectra with exponential cutoffs falling in a narrow range around a few GeV. Early spectral modelling predicted spectral cutoff energies of up to 100…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-03-08 M. Breed , C. Venter , A. K. Harding

Context. Pulsars are detected as broadband electromagnetic emitters from the radio wavelength up to high and very high energy in the MeV/GeV and sometimes even in the TeV range. Multi-wavelength phase-resolved spectra and light curves offer…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-10-20 Quentin Giraud , Jérôme Pétri

We investigate polarization of high-energy emissions from the Crab pulsar in the frame work of the outer gap accelerator, following previous works of Cheng and coworkers. The recent version of the outer gap, which extends from inside the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-31 J. Takata , H. -K. Chang , K. S. Cheng

The GeV light curve of a pulsar is an important probe to detect acceleration regions in its magnetosphere. Motivated by the recent reports on the observations of pulsars by {\it Fermi} Large Area Telescope (LAT), we restudy the two-pole…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-11-20 J. Fang , L. Zhang

Pulsed high energy radiation from pulsars is not yet completely understood. In this paper, we use the 3D self-consistent annular gap model to study light curves for both young and millisecond pulsars observed by the Fermi Gamma-ray Space…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2010-08-23 Yuan-Jie Du , G. J. Qiao , J. L. Han , K. J. Lee , R. X. Xu
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