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A sub-population of energetic rotation-powered pulsars show high fluxes of pulsed non-thermal hard X-ray emission. While this MeV pulsar population includes some radio-loud pulsars like the Crab, a significant number have no detected radio…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-12-08 Alice K. Harding , Constantinos Kalapotharakos

We investigate, in terms of production from pulsars and their nebulae, the cosmic ray positron and electron fluxes above $\sim10$ GeV, observed by the AMS-02 experiment up to 1 TeV. We concentrate on the Vela-X case. Starting from the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-08-10 S. Della Torre , M. Gervasi , P. G. Rancoita , D. Rozza , A. Treves

We have observed the Vela pulsar region at TeV energies using the 3.8 m imaging Cherenkov telescope near Woomera, South Australia every year since 1992. This is the first concerted search for pulsed and unpulsed emission from the Vela…

We extend the two-dimensional two-layer outer gap model to a three-dimensional geometry and use it to study the high-energy emission of the Vela pulsar. In this model, the outer gap is divided into two parts, i.e. the main acceleration…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-27 Y. Wang , J. Takata , K. S. Cheng

The nebula powered by the Vela pulsar is one of the best examples of an evolved pulsar wind nebula, allowing to access the particle injection history and the interaction with the supernova ejecta. We report on the INTEGRAL discovery of…

We report on our analysis of a 300 ks observation of the Vela pulsar with the Rossi X-Ray Timing Explorer (RXTE). The double-peaked, pulsed emission at 2 - 30 keV, which we had previously detected during a 93 ks observation, is confirmed…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Alice K Harding , Mark S. Strickman , Carl Gwinn , P. McCulloch , D. Moffet

We report on our analysis of a 274 ks observation of the Vela pulsar with the Rossi X-Ray Timing Explorer (RXTE). The double-peaked, pulsed emission at 2 - 30 keV, which we had previously detected during a 93 ks observation, is confirmed…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Alice K. Harding , Mark S. Strickman , Carl Gwinn , Peter McCulloch , David Moffet

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

The high-quality Fermi LAT observations of gamma-ray pulsars have opened a new window to understanding the generation mechanisms of high-energy emission from these systems. The high statistics allow for careful modeling of the light curve…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2011-11-03 Megan E. DeCesar , Alice K. Harding , M. Coleman Miller , Ioannis Contopoulos , Constantinos Kalapotharakos , Damien Parent

We have observed the Vela pulsar region at TeV energies using the 3.8 m imaging Cherenkov telescope near Woomera, South Australia between January 1993 and March 1995. Evidence of an unpulsed gamma-ray signal has been detected at the 5.8…

Pulsars emit pulsed emission across the entire electromagnetic spectrum and their light curve phenomenology is strongly dependent on energy. This is also true for the gamma-ray waveband. Continued detections by Fermi Large Area Telescope in…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-11-29 Monica Barnard , Christo Venter , Alice K. Harding , Constantinos Kalapotharakos

Intriguing sub-TeV tails in the pulsed $\gamma$-ray emission from the Crab pulsar have been recently discovered by the MAGIC and VERITAS Collaborations. They were not clearly predicted by any pulsar model. It is at present argued that this…

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

In the framework of the three-dimensional (3D) annular gap model with reasonable parameters (the magnetic inclination angle \alpha = 45 deg and the view angle \zeta = 63 deg), we first use the latest hight energy data to self-consistently…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2012-03-16 YuanJie Du , GuoJun Qiao , Wei Wang

The Vela pulsar is one of the most exciting gamma-ray sources and has been at the forefront of high-energy pulsar science since the detection of gamma-ray pulsations at the radio period by SAS-2 in 1975. With the unprecedented angular…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2009-12-22 T. J. Johnson , Ö. Çelik , M. Kerr , A. K. Harding , G. A. Caliandro

We report on the properties of pulsed X-ray emission from eight MeV pulsars using XMM-Newton, NICER, NuSTAR and HXMT data. For the five among eight MeV pulsars, the X-ray spectra can be fitted by a broken-power law model with a break energy…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-03-11 J. Takata , H. H Wang , L. C. -C. Lin , S. Kisaka

Our knowledge of the optical spectra of Isolated Neutron Stars (INSs) is limited by their intrinsic faintness. Among the fourteen optically identified INSs, medium resolution spectra have been obtained only for a handful of objects. No…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-03-28 R. P. Mignani , S. Zharikov , P. A. Caraveo

The LHAASO Collaboration has recently reported a measurement of the diffuse gamma-ray emission from the Galactic Plane at energies between 10 TeV and 1 PeV. While this emission is brighter than that expected from cosmic-ray interactions in…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-10-18 Ariane Dekker , Ian Holst , Dan Hooper , Giovani Leone , Emily Simon , Huangyu Xiao

We report a detection of GeV $\gamma$-ray emission potentially originating from the pulsar wind nebula in CTA 1 by analyzing about 15 yr of Fermi Large Area Telescope data. By selecting an energy range from 50 GeV to 1 TeV to remove…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-03-12 Liancheng Zhou , Keyao Wu , Yunlu Gong , Jun Fang

Enabled by the Fermi Large Area Telescope, we now know young and recycled pulsars fill the gamma-ray sky, and we are beginning to understand their emission mechanism and their distribution throughout the Galaxy. However, key questions…

We have detected pulsed emission from the Vela pulsar at 2 - 30 keV during a 93 ks observation with the Rossi X-Ray Timing Explorer (RXTE). The RXTE pulse profile shows two peaks, that are roughly in phase with the EGRET peaks, but does not…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 M. S. Strickman , A. K. Harding , O. C. deJager