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A new model for the high-energy emission from pulsars is developed by considering charged particle motion in the fields of a spinning, highly magnetised and conducting sphere in vacuum. A generally applicable approximation to the particle…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 M. G. Higgins , R. N. Henriksen

The spectral characteristics of the pulsed gamma-ray emission from outer-magnetospheric particle accelerators are investigated. Either positrons or electrons are accelerated outwards by the magnetic-field-aligned electric field to emit…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-28 Kouichi Hirotani

We present a statistical study of pulsars and millisecond pulsars (MSPs) based on multiwavelength observations in the Galactic Field and Globular Clusters. We examine their emission properties, timing behavior, and spatial distributions,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-02-10 Maria Rah , Areg Mickaelian , Francesco Flammini Dotti , Rainer Spurzem

Pulsars provide a wealth of information about General Relativity, the equation of state of superdense matter, relativistic particle acceleration in high magnetic fields, the Galaxy's interstellar medium and magnetic field, stellar and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-19 D. R. Lorimer , M. A. McLaughlin

In recent years, surprise discoveries of pulsed emission from the Crab and Vela pulsars above 100 GeV have drawn renewed attention to this largely unexplored region of the energy range. In this paper, we discuss example light curves due to…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-08-22 Christo Venter , Monica Barnard , Alice K. Harding , Constantinos Kalapotharakos

The pulsar radio emission is commonly associated with the plasma outflow in the open field line tube; then a pencil beam is emitted along the pulsar magnetic axis. Observations suggest that there is an additional radio emission mechanism…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-12-12 Yuri Lyubarsky

Pulsars emit beams of radiation that reveal the extreme physics of neutron star magnetospheres. Yet, their understanding remains incomplete. Recent global Particle-in-Cell (PIC) simulations have raised several questions that led us to…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-05-21 Ioannis Contopoulos , Jerome Petri , Ioannis Dimitropoulos

Many models for the pulsar radio and $\gamma$-ray emissions have been developed. The tests for these models using observational data are very important. Tests for the pulsar radio emission models using frequency-altitude relation are…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 G. J. Qiao , K. J. Lee , H. G. Wang , R. X. Xu , B. Zhang

We review electrodynamics of rotating magnetized neutron stars, from the early vacuum model to recent numerical experiments with plasma-filled magnetospheres. Significant progress became possible due to the development of global…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-12-14 Benoît Cerutti , Andrei Beloborodov

The purpose of this paper is to suggest how detailed single-pulse observations of ``slow'' radio pulsars may be utilized to construct an empirical model for their emission. It links the observational synthesis developed in a series of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Joanna M. Rankin , Geoffrey A. E. Wright

Using the outer gap model, we investigate the emission region for the multi-wavelength light curve from energetic pulsars. We assume that gamma-ray and non-thermal X-ray photons are emitted from a particle acceleration region in the outer…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-28 Shota Kisaka , Yasufumi Kojima

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

Pulsars have now been studied for 34 years. We know of the existence of some 1500 objects at radio frequencies. Many of the characteristics of pulsars such as pulsar period, period derivative, spectrum, polarization, etc., have been…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Richard Wielebinski

Super-sensitive observations of bright pulsars by the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST) have revealed weak radio emission continuously emerged in the rotation phases between the main pulse and interpulse of an…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-04-10 P. F. Wang , J. L. Han

It is generally accepted that the pulsar magnetic field converts most of its rotational energy losses into radiation. In this paper, we propose an alternative emission mechanism, in which neither the pulsar rotational energy nor its…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-02-25 Nikolay Kamardin

The analytical expression for frequency of the maximum of radio emission intensity in pulsars with free electron emission from the stellar surface has been found. We have explained the correlation, known from observations, between the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 V. M. Kontorovich , A. B. Flanchik

The discovery of pulsars in 1968 heralded an era where the temporal characteristics of detectors had to be reassessed. Up to this point detector integration times would normally be measured in minutes rather seconds and definitely not on…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Andy Shearer

Extended periods of radio pulsations have been observed for six magnetars, displaying characteristics different from those of ordinary pulsars. In this Letter, we argue that radio emission is generated in a closed, twisted magnetic flux…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-12-18 Shuzhe Zeng , Alexander Philippov , James Juno , Andrei M. Beloborodov , Elena Popova

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

The high-energy emission mechanisms based on the radio photon reprocessing by the ultrarelativistic plasma particles in the open field line tube of a pulsar are considered. The particles are believed to acquire relativistic gyration…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2009-04-28 S. A. Petrova