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The detected high-energy pulsars' population is growing in number, and thus, having agile and physically relevant codes to analyze it consistently is important. Here, we update our existing synchro-curvature radiation model by including a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-09-21 Daniel Íñiguez-Pascual , Daniele Viganò , Diego F. Torres

We compare population synthesis results for inner and outer magnetosphere emission models with the various characteristics measured in the first LAT pulsar catalogue for both the radio-loud and radio-weak or radio-quiet gamma-ray pulsars.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-27 Marco Pierbattista , Isabelle Grenier , Alice Harding , Peter L. Gonthier

We present the results of a search for pulsed TeV emission from the Crab pulsar using the Whipple Observatory's 10m gamma-ray telescope. The direction of the Crab pulsar was observed for a total of 73.4 hours between 1994 November and 1997…

Searching for the physical mechanism that can excite the coherent radio emission in pulsars is still an enigmatic problem. A wealth of high quality observations exist, which over the years have been instrumental in putting stringent…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2013-04-09 Dipanjan Mitra

Motivated by recent results on the location of the radio emission in pulsar magnetospheres, we have developed a model which can account for the large diversity found in the average profile shapes of pulsars. At the centre of our model lies…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 A. Karastergiou , S. Johnston

The popular outer gap model of magnetospheric emission from pulsars has been widely applied to explain the properties observed in $\gamma$-rays. However, its quantitative predictions rely on a number of approximations and assumptions that…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-12-05 Daniele Viganò , Diego F. Torres , Kouichi Hirotani , Martín E. Pessah

High-energy gamma rays are a valuable tool for studying particle acceleration and radiation in the magnetospheres of energetic pulsars. The seven or more pulsars seen by instruments on the Compton Gamma Ray Observatory (CGRO) show that: the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 David J. Thompson

The pulsar radio emission originates from regions below 10% of the light cylinder radius. This requires a mechanism where coherent emission is excited in relativistic pair plasma with frequency $\nu_{cr}$ which is below the plasma frequency…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-09-27 Dipanjan Mitra

The MAGIC telescope has detected for the first time pulsed gamma-rays from the Crab pulsar in the VHE domain. The observations were performed with a newly developed trigger system that allows us to lower the energy threshold of the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-13 M. Lopez , N. Otte , M. Rissi , T. Schweizer , M. Shayduk , S. Klepser

Since the era of the Fermi/LAT and atmospheric Cerenkov telescopes, pulsars are known to emit high and very high-energy photons, in the MeV-GeV range and sometimes up to TeV. To date, it is still unclear where and how these photons are…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-02-13 Jérôme Pétri

We compute the patterns of $\gamma$-ray emission due to curvature radiation in dissipative pulsar magnetospheres. Our ultimate goal is to construct macrophysical models that are able to reproduce the observed $\gamma$-ray light-curve…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-17 Constantinos Kalapotharakos , Alice K. Harding , Demosthenes Kazanas

The pulsar emission mechanism in the gamma-ray energy band is poorly understood. Currently, there are several models under discussion in the pulsar community. These models can be constrained by studying the collective properties of a sample…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-08-28 A. U. Abeysekara , J. T. Linnemann

Multi-wavelength light curves of bright gamma-ray blazars (e.g., 3C 454.3) reveal strong correlations across wavebands, yet striking dissimilarities in the details. This conundrum can be explained if the variable flux and polarization…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2012-01-27 Alan P. Marscher

Using the high speed 2-d TRIFFID photometer, we have obtained phase resolved photometry of the Crab pulsar in UBV that allows us to flux the unpulsed light curve component. Following de-extinction, weighted least-square fitting indicates a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Aaron Golden , Andy Shearer , Gregory Beskin

We report on the observations of the Crab pulsar with the MAGIC telesopes. Data were taken both in the mono-mode ($>25$ GeV) and in the stereo-mode ($>50$ GeV). Clear signals from the two peaks were detected with both modes and the phase…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-13 T. Y. Saito , M. López , G. Giavitto , S. Klepser , T. Schweizer , R. Zanin

We study the gamma-ray emission patterns and light curves in dissipative pulsar magnetospheres. We produce the gamma-ray light curves by using the geometric method and the particle trajectory method. For the geometric method, assuming the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-04-10 Gang Cao , Xiongbang Yang

We calculate gamma-ray spectra of pulsars for a set of electron acceleration models within the polar-cap scenario. We discuss our results in the light of the recent analysis (Kanbach 1999) of temporal properties of the Vela pulsar in the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 J. Dyks , B. Rudak , T. Bulik

There is active interest in the extent to which unresolved gamma-ray pulsars contribute to the galactic diffuse emission, and whether unresolved gamma-ray pulsars could be responsible for the excess of diffuse galactic emission above 1 GeV…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Martin Pohl , Gottfried Kanbach , Stan D. Hunter , Brian B. Jones

We report on observations of the Crab pulsar with the MAGIC telescopes. Our data were taken in both monoscopic (> 25GeV) and stereoscopic (> 50GeV) observation modes. Two peaks were detected with both modes and phase-resolved energy spectra…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-15 S. Klepser , G. Giavitto , M. López , T. Y. Saito , T. Schweizer , I. Snidaric , R. Zanin

Our high time resolution observations of individual pulses from the Crab pulsar show that the main pulse and interpulse differ in temporal behavior, spectral behavior, polarization and dispersion. The main pulse properties are consistent…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-23 J. A. Eilek , T. H. Hankins