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We present a catalog of 2-10 keV ASCA Gas Imaging Spectrometer images of fields containing bright sources of GeV emission. The images cover $\sim 85%$ of the 95% confidence position contour for 28 of the 30 sources with $> 1$ GeV fluxes…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Mallory S. E. Roberts , Roger W. Romani , Nobuyuki Kawai

Many of the blazars observed by Fermi actually have the peak of their time-averaged gamma-ray emission outside the $\sim$ GeV Fermi energy range, at $\sim$ MeV energies. The detailed shape of the emission spectrum around the $\sim$ MeV peak…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-02-05 F. Tavecchio , L. Nava , A. Sciaccaluga , P. Coppi

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

Pulsars are believed to be sources of relativistic electrons and positrons. The abundance of detections of gamma-ray millisecond pulsars by Fermi Large Area Telescope coupled with their light curve characteristics that imply copious pair…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-23 C. Venter , A. Kopp , P. L. Gonthier , A. K. Harding , I. Büsching

Several high-frequency peaked BL Lac objects such as Mrk 501 are strong TeV emitters. However, a significant fraction of the TeV gamma rays emitted are likely to be absorbed in interactions with the diffuse IR background, yielding…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Z. G. Dai , B. Zhang , L. J. Gou , P. Meszaros , E. Waxman

Current generation of ground based gamma-ray telescopes observed dozens of sources of photons above 100 TeV. Supernova remnants, pulsar wind nebulae, young stellar clusters and superbubbles are considered as possible sites of PeV-regime…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-10-08 A. M. Bykov , A. E. Petrov , G. A. Ponomaryov , K. P. Levenfish , M. Falanga

In the present paper a self-consistent theory, interpreting the VERITAS observations of the very high energy pulsed emission from the Crab pulsar is considered. The photon spectrum between 10MeV and 400GeV can be described by two power-law…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2012-08-13 Nino Chkheidze , George Machabeli , Zaza Osmanov

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

We review a proposed multicomponent model to explain the features of the pulsed emission and spectrum of the Crab Pulsar, on the light of the recent detection of pulsed emission above 25 GeV from the MAGIC atmospheric Cherenkov telescope.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2009-06-09 R. Campana , E. Massaro , T. Mineo , G. Cusumano

We study mechanisms of multi-wavelength emissions (X-ray, GeV and TeV gamma-rays) from the gamma-ray binary LS~5039. This paper is composed of two parts. In the first part, we report on results of observational analysis using four year data…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-22 J. Takata , Gene C. K. Leung , P. H. T. Tam , A. K. H. Kong , C. Y. Hui , K. S. Cheng

We present the first multi-wavelength study of Mrk 501 including very-high-energy (VHE) gamma-ray observations simultaneous to X-ray polarization measurements from the Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE). We use radio-to-VHE data from…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-09-03 S. Abe , J. Abhir , V. A. Acciari , A. Aguasca-Cabot , I. Agudo , T. Aniello , S. Ansoldi , L. A. Antonelli , A. Arbet Engels , C. Arcaro , K. Asano , A. Babić , A. Baquero , U. Barres de Almeida , J. A. Barrio , I. Batković , A. Bautista , J. Baxter , J. Becerra González , W. Bednarek , E. Bernardini , M. Bernardos , J. Bernete , A. Berti , J. Besenrieder , C. Bigongiari , A. Biland , O. Blanch , G. Bonnoli , Ž. Bošnjak , I. Burelli , G. Busetto , A. Campoy-Ordaz , A. Carosi , R. Carosi , M. Carretero-Castrillo , A. J. Castro-Tirado , G. Ceribella , Y. Chai , A. Cifuentes , E. Colombo , J. L. Contreras , J. Cortina , S. Covino , G. D'Amico , V. D'Elia , P. Da Vela , F. Dazzi , A. De Angelis , B. De Lotto , R. de Menezes , A. Del Popolo , M. Delfino , J. Delgado , C. Delgado Mendez , F. Di Pierro , L. Di Venere , D. Dominis Prester , A. Donini , D. Dorner , M. Doro , D. Elsaesser , G. Emery , J. Escudero , L. Fariña , A. Fattorini , L. Foffano , L. Font , S. Fröse , Y. Fukazawa , R. J. García López , M. Garczarczyk , S. Gasparyan , M. Gaug , J. G. Giesbrecht Paiva , N. Giglietto , F. Giordano , P. Gliwny , N. Godinović , T. Gradetzke , R. Grau , D. Green , J. G. Green , P. Günther , D. Hadasch , A. Hahn , T. Hassan , L. Heckmann , J. Herrera , D. Hrupec , M. Hütten , R. Imazawa , K. Ishio , I. Jiménez Mart'inez , T. Kayanoki , D. Kerszberg , G. W. Kluge , Y. Kobayashi , P. M. Kouch , H. Kubo , J. Kushida , M. Láinez Lezáun , A. Lamastra , F. Leone , E. Lindfors , L. Linhoff , S. Lombardi , F. Longo , R. López-Coto , M. López-Moya , A. López-Oramas , S. Loporchio , A. Lorini , E. Lyard , B. Machado de Oliveira Fraga , P. Majumdar , M. Makariev , G. Maneva , N. Mang , M. Manganaro , S. Mangano , K. Mannheim , M. Mariotti , M. Martínez , M. Martínez-Chicharro , A. Mas-Aguilar , D. Mazin , S. Menchiari , S. Mender , D. Miceli , T. Miener , J. M. Miranda , R. Mirzoyan , M. Molero González , E. Molina , H. A. Mondal , A. Moralejo , D. Morcuende , T. Nakamori , C. Nanci , V. Neustroev , C. Nigro , L. Nikolić , K. Nilsson , K. Nishijima , T. Njoh Ekoume , K. Noda , S. Nozaki , Y. Ohtani , A. Okumura , J. Otero-Santos , S. Paiano , M. Palatiello , D. Paneque , R. Paoletti , J. M. Paredes , M. Peresano , M. Persic , M. Pihet , G. Pirola , F. Podobnik , P. G. Prada Moroni , E. Prandini , G. Principe , C. Priyadarshi , W. Rhode , M. Ribó , J. Rico , C. Righi , N. Sahakyan , T. Saito , K. Satalecka , F. G. Saturni , B. Schleicher , K. Schmidt , F. Schmuckermaier , J. L. Schubert , T. Schweizer , A. Sciaccaluga , G. Silvestri , J. Sitarek , D. Sobczynska , A. Spolon , A. Stamerra , J. Strišković , D. Strom , Y. Suda , S. Suutarinen , H. Tajima , M. Takahashi , R. Takeishi , F. Tavecchio , P. Temnikov , K. Terauchi , T. Terzić , M. Teshima , L. Tosti , S. Truzzi , A. Tutone , S. Ubach , J. van Scherpenberg , S. Ventura , I. Viale , C. F. Vigorito , V. Vitale , I. Vovk , R. Walter , M. Will , C. Wunderlich , T. Yamamoto , I. Liodakis , F. J. Aceituno , B. Agís-González , H. Akitaya , M. I. Bernardos , D. Blinov , I. G. Bourbah , C. Casadio , V. Casanova , F. D'Ammando , V. Fallah Ramazani , E. Fernández-García , Y. Fukazawa , M. García-Comas , E. Gau , A. Gokus , M. Gurwell , P. Hakala , T. Hovatta , Y. -D. Hu , C. Husillos , J. Jormanainen , S. G. Jorstad , K. S. Kawabata , G. K. Keating , S. Kiehlmann , E. Kontopodis , H. Krawczynski , A. Lähteenmäki , C. Leto , L. Lisalda , N. Mandarakas , A. Marchini , A. P. Marscher , W. Max-Moerbeck , R. Middei , T. Mizuno , I. Myserlis , T. Nakaoka , M. Perri , S. Puccetti , R. Rao , A. C. S. Readhead , R. Reeves , N. Rodriguez Cavero , Q. Salomé , M. Sasada , R. Skalidis , A. Sota , I. Syrjärinne , M. Tornikoski , M. Uemura , F. Verrecchia , A. Vervelaki

It has long been suggested that nearby pulsars within $\sim 1 \,{\rm kpc}$ are the leading candidate of the 10-500 GeV cosmic-ray positron excess measured by PAMELA and other experiments. The recent measurement of surface brightness profile…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-06-26 Shao-Qiang Xi , Ruo-Yu Liu , Zhi-Qiu Huang , Kun Fang , Xiang-Yu Wang

A significant amount of the millisecond pulsars has been discovered within binary systems. In several such binary systems the masses of the companion stars have been derived allowing to distinguish two classes of objects, called the Black…

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

With a period of 51.6 ms and spin-down power 2.2x10^{37} erg s^{-1}, PSR J2229+6114 is a compelling identification for the EGRET source 3EG J2227+6122 in which error circle it resides. Striking features of the Chandra X-ray image are an…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 J. P. Halpern , E. V. Gotthelf , F. Camilo , B. Collins , D. J. Helfand

The gamma-ray binaries LS 5039 and LS I +61 303 have been detected by Cerenkov telescopes at TeV energies, exhibiting periodic behavior correlated with the orbital period. These gamma-ray binary systems have also been recently detected by…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2010-08-04 Diego F. Torres

We discuss $\gamma$-ray emissions from the outer gap accelerators of middle-aged pulsars for part of the series of our studies. A two-dimensional electrodynamic model is used to solve the distribution of accelerating electric fields with…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 J. Takata , H. -K. Chang

In recent years, the number of known sources emitting very- and ultra-high-energy gamma-rays has increased significantly thanks to facilities such as LHAASO and HAWC. Many of the observed sources are still unidentified or poorly constrained…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-09-19 Michela Rigoselli , Sarah Recchia , Alberto Bonollo , Silvia Crestan , Giada Peron , Andrea Giuliani , Sandro Mereghetti

Polarization profiles are presented for 20 millisecond pulsars that are being observed as part of the Parkes Pulsar Timing Array project. The observations used the Parkes multibeam receiver with a central frequency of 1369 MHz and the…

Pulsars radiate radio signals when they rotate. However, some old pulsars often stop radiating for some periods. The underlying mechanism remains unknown, while the magnetosphere during nulling phases is hard to probe due to the absence of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-08-21 X. Chen , Y. Yan , J. L. Han , C. Wang , P. F. Wang , W. C. Jing , K. J. Lee , B. Zhang , R. X. Xu , T. Wang , Z. L. Yang , W. Q. Su , N. N. Cai , W. Y. Wang , G. J. Qiao , J. Xu , D. J. Zhou