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The observed TeV light curve from the $\gamma$-ray binary PSR B1259-63/LS 2883 shows a decrease in the flux at periastron which has not been fully explained by emission mechanisms alone. This observed decrease can, however, be explained by…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-03-22 Iurii Sushch , Brian van Soelen

We investigated a wealth of X-ray and gamma-ray spectral energy distribution (SED) and multi-band light curve (LC) data of the gamma-ray binary HESS J0632+057 using a phenomenological intrabinary shock (IBS) model. Our baseline model…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-09-07 Jinyoung Kim , Hongjun An , Kaya Mori

The few known gamma-ray binary systems are all associated with variable radio and X-ray emission. The TeV source HESS J0632+057, apparently associated with the Be star MWC148, is plausibly a new member of this class. Following the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-13 J. L. Skilton , M. Pandey-Pommier , J. A. Hinton , C. C. Cheung , F. A. Aharonian , J. Brucker , G. Dubus , A. Fiasson , S. Funk , Y. A. Gallant , A. Marcowith , O. Reimer

The inverse Compton scattering of ultrarelativistic electrons accelerated at the pulsar wind termination shock is believed to be responsible for TeV gamma-ray signal recently reported from the binary system PSR B1259-63/SS2883. While this…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Dmitry Khangulyan , Slavomir Hnatic , Felix Aharonian , Sergey Bogovalov

The HAWC Gamma-Ray Observatory has reported the discovery of TeV gamma-ray emission extending several degrees around the positions of Geminga and B0656+14 pulsars. Assuming these gamma rays are produced by inverse Compton scattering off…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-13 F. Salesa Greus , S. Casanova , B. Dingus , R. Lopez-Coto , H. Zhou

X-ray photometry and optical spectra are presented covering the periastron passage of the highly-eccentric, ~50 year binary system PSR J2032+4127 in November 2017. This system consists of a 143 ms pulsar in orbit around a massive OB star,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-03-13 M. J. Coe , A. T. Okazaki , I. A. Steele , C. -Y. Ng , Wynn C. G. Ho , A. G. Lyne , B. Stappers , T. J. Johnson , Paul S. Ray , M. Kerr

Cosmic rays (protons and other atomic nuclei) are believed to gain energies of petaelectronvolts (PeV) and beyond at astrophysical particle accelerators called 'PeVatrons' inside our Galaxy. Although a characteristic feature of a PeVatron…

The features of pulsed $\gamma$-ray emission from classical and millisecond pulsars indicate that the high energy radiation processes in their inner magnetospheres occur in a similar way. In the last decade several TeV $\gamma$-ray nebulae…

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

We present an X-ray study of the field containing the extended TeV source HESS J1834-087 using data obtained with the XMM-Newton telescope. Previously, the coincidence of this source with both the shell-type supernova remnant (SNR) W41 and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 R. Mukherjee , E. V. Gotthelf , J. P. Halpern

Relativistic hydrodynamical simulations of the eccentric gamma-ray binary HESS J0632$+$057, show that the energy of a putative pulsar wind should accumulate in the binary surroundings between periastron and apastron, being released by fast…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-07-04 Maxim Barkov , Valenti Bosch-Ramon

HESS J0632+057 is a variable, point-like source of Very High Energy ($>100$ GeV) gamma-rays located in the Galactic plane. It is positionally coincident with a Be star, it is a variable radio and X-ray source, has a hard X-ray spectrum, and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-27 Stephen Bongiorno , Abraham Falcone , Michael Stroh , Jamie Holder , Joanna Skilton , Jim Hinton , Neil Gehrels , Jeff Grube

We report our recent Swift, NuSTAR, and XMM-Newton X-ray and Lijiang optical observations on PSR J2032+4127/MT91 213, the gamma-ray binary candidate with a period of 45-50 years. The coming periastron of the system was predicted to be in…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-07-19 K. L. Li , A. K. H. Kong , P. H. T. Tam , X. Hou , J. Takata , C. Y. Hui

HESS J0632+057 is an eccentric gamma-ray Be binary that produces non-thermal radio, X-rays, GeV, and very high-energy gamma rays. The non-thermal emission of HESS J0632+057 is modulated with the orbital period, with a dominant maximum…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-09-13 Valentí Bosch-Ramon , Maxim V. Barkov , Andrea Mignone , Pol Bordas

(abridged) Gamma-ray binaries are massive stars with compact object companions that are observed to emit most of their energy in the gamma-ray range. One of these binaries is known to contain a radio pulsar, PSR B1259-63. Synchrotron and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-27 Jérôme Pétri , Guillaume Dubus

The High Energy Stereoscopic System (HESS) survey of the Galactic plane has established the existence of a substantial number (~40) of Galactic TeV gamma-ray sources, a large fraction of which remain unidentified. HESS J0632+057 is one of a…

Several binary systems, composed of a star and a compact object, have been detected in the GeV-TeV range. Several systems have been observed but only a handful of sources have shown emission at those energies. Here, we present the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-14 A. López-Oramas , O. Blanch Bigas , J. Cortina , D. Hadasch , A. Herrero , B. Marcote , P. Munar-Adrover , J. Moldón , J. M. Paredes , I. Ribas , M. Ribó , D. Torres , R. Zanin

1A 0535+262 is a Be X-ray binary pulsar and one of the only galactic pulsar systems to show radio jet emission. Characterizing the very high energy emission (VHE, >100 GeV) in these extreme microquasars is critical to understanding their…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-08-24 Matthew Lundy

We address several issues regarding the interpretation of galactic \ggg-ray sources. We consider powerful pulsars in binaries producing X-ray and gamma-ray {\it unpulsed} emission from the shock interaction of relativistic pulsar winds with…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 M. Tavani

The recent detections of TeV gamma-rays from compact binary systems show that relativistic outflows (jets or winds) are sites of effective acceleration of particles up to multi-TeV energies. In this paper, we discuss the conditions of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Dmitry Khangulyan , Felix Aharonian , Valenti Bosch-Ramon

Binary pulsar systems emit potentially detectable components of gamma ray emission due to Comptonization of the optical radiation of the companion star by relativistic electrons of the pulsar wind, both before and after termination of the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-27 Dmitry Khangulyan , Felix Aharonian , Sergey Bogovalov , Marc Ribó