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The binary system PSR B1259-63/LS 2883 consists of a 47.8 ms radio pulsar that orbits the companion Be star with a period of 3.4 years in a highly eccentric orbit. The system is well sampled in radio, X-rays, and TeV gamma-rays, and shows…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2012-08-01 P. H. Thomas Tam , Regina H. H. Huang , Jumpei Takata , C. Y. Hui , Albert K. H. Kong , K. S. Cheng

Be/$\gamma$-ray binaries comprise a confirmed or presumptive pulsar orbiting a Be star and emit luminous $\gamma$-rays. Non-thermal emissions are thought to arise from synchrotron radiation and inverse-Compton (IC) scattering in the shock…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-02-21 A. M. Chen , J. Takata

PSR B1259-63 is a gamma-ray binary system composed of a high spindown pulsar and a massive star. Non-thermal emission up to TeV energies is observed near periastron passage, attributed to emission from high energy e+e- pairs accelerated at…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-16 G. Dubus , B. Cerutti

Gamma-ray binaries are orbital modulated gamma-ray sources in the Galaxy detected both at GeV and TeV energies. The high-energy radiation may come from the interaction of energetic electrons injected by a young pulsar and photons from the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2009-12-21 B. Cerutti , G. Dubus , G. Henri

HESS J0632+057 belongs to a rare subclass of binary systems which emits gamma-rays above 100 GeV. It stands out for its distinctive high-energy light curve, which features a sharp ``primary'' peak and broader ``secondary'' peak. We present…

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 binary system HESS J0632+057 was recently detected by {Fermi} to possess orbital modulated GeV emission. In this paper, we study the possibility that the compact companion of HESS J0632+057 is a pulsar. Under such a presumption, we…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-08-30 Shu-Xu Yi , Kwong Sang Cheng

Context. Gamma-ray binaries are systems composed of a massive star and a compact object whose interaction leads to particle acceleration up to relativistic energies. In the last fifteen years, a few binaries have been discovered to emit at…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-05-06 G. Martí-Devesa , O. Reimer

Recent observations of binary systems obtained with the H.E.S.S. telescopes are providing crucial information on the physics of relativistic outflows and the engines powering them. We report here on new H.E.S.S. results on HESS J0632+057,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-14 Pol Bordas , Hélène Laffon , Mathieu de Naurois , Stefan Ohm , Emma de Oña Wilhelmi , Iurii Sushch , Francesca Volpe , Víctor Zabalza

We derive light curves for the hard gamma-ray emission, at energies up to several TeV, expected from the unique pulsar/Be-star binary system PSR B1259-63. This is the only known system in our galaxy in which a radio pulsar is orbiting a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-05-23 J. G. Kirk , Lewis Ball , Olaf Skjaeraasen

The binary system PSR B1259-63/LS 2883 is well sampled in radio, X-rays, and TeV gamma-rays, and shows orbital phase-dependent variability in these frequencies. The first detection of GeV gamma-rays from the system was made around the 2010…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-23 P. H. T. Tam , K. L. Li , J. Takata , A. T. Okazaki , C. Y. Hui , A. K. H. Kong

During last years a few massive binary systems have been detected in the TeV gamma-rays. This gamma-ray emission is clearly modulated with the orbital periods of these binaries suggesting its origin inside the binary system. In this paper…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-06-27 W. Bednarek

Some massive binaries should contain energetic pulsars which inject relativistic leptons from their inner magnetospheres and/or pulsar wind regions. If the binary system is compact enough, then these leptons can initiate inverse Compton…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Sierpowska , W. Bednarek

PSR B1259-63 is a gamma-ray binary system with a radio pulsar orbiting an O9.5Ve star, LS 2883, with a period of ~3.4 yr. Close to the periastron the system is detected at all wavelengths, from radio to the TeV energies. The emission in…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-02-02 M. Chernyakova , D. Malyshev , B. van Soelen , S. Mc Keague , S. P. O'Sullivan , D. Buckley

We report on the discovery of \geq 100 MeV {\gamma} rays from the binary system PSR B1259-63/LS 2883 using the Large Area Telescope (LAT) on board Fermi. The system comprises a radio pulsar in orbit around a Be star. We report on LAT…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2011-06-30 A. A. Abdo , Fermi LAT Collaboration , M. Chernyakova , A. Neronov , E. Grundstrom , the Fermi Pulsar Timing Consortium

The spectral energy distribution from the X-ray to the very high energy regime ($>100$ GeV) has been investigated for the $\gamma$-ray binary system PSR B1259-63/SS2883 as a function of orbital phase within the framework of a simple model…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2009-08-11 Jumpei Takata , Ronald E. Taam

We present a detailed study of the gamma-ray emission from the direction of the star-forming region W30 based on a decade of the Fermi Large Area Telescope data in the 0.3-300 GeV photon energy range. The morphological and spectral analyses…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-21 Bing Liu , Rui-zhi Yang , Xiao-na Sun , Felix Aharonian , Yang Chen

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 3.4 years. The Be star features a circumstellar disk which is inclined with…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-09-07 Iurii Sushch , Markus Böttcher

The first TeV gamma-ray source with no lower energy counterparts, TeV J2032+4130, was discovered by HEGRA. It appears in the third HAWC catalog as 3HWC J2031+415 and it is a bright TeV gamma-ray source whose emission has previously been…

HESS J1809-193 is an unidentified TeV source discovered by the High Energy Stereoscopic System and originally classified as a pulsar wind nebula (PWN) candidate associated with the pulsar PSR J1809-1917. However, a recent study of deep…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-06-06 Miguel Araya