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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 report the results of the spectral and timing analysis of observations of the Vela pulsar with the Chandra X-ray Observatory. The spectrum shows no statistically significant spectral lines in the observed 0.25--8.0 keV band. It consists…

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

Context. More than one hundred GeV pulsars have been detected up to now by the LAT telescope on the Fermi gamma-ray observatory, showing peak energies around a few GeV. Current modelling proposes that the high energy emission comes from…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-11 Ioanna Arka , Guillaume Dubus

We develop a model for gamma-ray emission from the outer magnetosphere of pulsars (the outer-gap model). The charge depletion causes a large electric field which accelerates electrons and positrons. We solve the electric field with…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Junpei Takata , Sinpei Shibata , Kouichi Hirotani

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

We study the gamma-ray emissions from an outer-magnetospheric potential gap around a rotating neutron star. Migratory electrons and positrons are accelerated by the electric field in the gap to radiate copious gamma-rays via curvature…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 K. Hirotani

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

The Vela supernova remnant (SNR), G263.9-3.3, and its pulsar wind nebula (PWN), Vela X, is one of the closest such systems, and it has been studied using observations across the electromagnetic spectrum. SNRs are known sources of gamma rays…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-04-21 Miguel Araya , Santiago Ramírez , Diego Bueso , Braulio J. Solano-Rojas

We report the results of the spectral analysis of two observations of the Vela pulsar with the Chandra X-ray observatory. The spectrum of the pulsar does not show statistically significant spectral lines in the observed 0.25-8.0 keV band.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 G. G. Pavlov , V. E Zavlin , D. Sanwal , V. Burwitz , G. Garmire

Vela X is a pulsar wind nebula in which two relativistic particle populations with distinct spatial and spectral distributions dominate the emission at different wavelengths. An extended $2^\circ \times 3^\circ$ nebula is seen in radio and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-09-19 L. Tibaldo , R. Zanin , G. Faggioli , J. Ballet , M. -H. Grondin , J. A. Hinton , M. Lemoine-Goumard

Recent studies suggest that pulsars could be strong sources of TeV muon neutrinos provided positive ions are accelerated by pulsar polar caps to PeV energies. In such a situation muon neutrinos are produced through the delta resonance in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-02-03 A. Bhadra , R. K. Dey

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

We report our analysis of the Fermi Large Area Telescope data for 39 millisecond pulsars (MSPs) listed in the second $\gamma$-ray pulsar catalog. Spectra of the pulsars are obtained. We fit the spectra with a function of a power law with…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-11-09 Yi Xing , Zhongxiang Wang

Pulsar halos (also termed 'TeV halo') are a new class of $\gamma$-ray sources in Galaxy, which manifest as extended $\gamma$-ray emission around middle-age pulsars, as discovered around the Geminga pulsar, the Monogem pulsar and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-02-01 Qi-Zuo Wu , Chao-Ming Li , Xuan-Han Liang , Chong Ge , Ruo-Yu Liu

High-energy particle transport in pulsar wind nebulae (PWNe) plays an essential role in explaining the characteristics revealed in multiwavelength observations. In this paper, the TeV-gamma-ray-emitting electrons in the Vela X PWN are…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-07-04 Yiwei Bao , Siming Liu , Yang Chen

It's generally believed that young and rapidly rotating pulsars are important sites of particle's acceleration, in which protons can be accelerated to relativistic energy above the polar cap region if the magnetic moment is antiparallel to…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-15 Zhi-Xiong Li , Gui-Fang Lin , Wei-Wei Na

Fermi has detected over 200 pulsars above 100 MeV. In a previous work, using 3 years of LAT data (1FHL catalog) we reported that 28 of these pulsars show emission above 10 GeV; only three of these, however, were millisecond pulsars (MSPs).…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-12-20 Pablo M. Saz Parkinson , Andrea Belfiore , David Carreto Fidalgo , Colin J. Clark , Matthew Kerr , Lars Nieder

The pulsed radiation from PSR B0833-45 (Vela) has a phased-averaged spectral energy distribution (SED) of an apparently simple structure across a wide energy range, from optical light to hard gamma-rays. However, the Vela pulses in narrow…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-08-07 Bronisław Rudak , Jarosław Dyks

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