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Multi-TeV gamma-ray emission around eHWC J1850+001 (a source from the first HAWC catalog of gamma-ray sources emitting above 56 TeV) is spatially coincident with the pulsar wind nebula (PWN) G32.64+0.53, powered by PSR J1849-0001. The…

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The main inference from the experiments of the '80s that the time-averaged energy spectra of pulsars had to steepen in the GeV-TeV energy region has been reinforced in the '90s from experiments with higher sensitivities. However, results…

Very high-energy gamma-rays (VHE; E>100 GeV) have been detected from the direction of the Galactic Centre up to energies E>10 TeV. Up to now, the origin of this emission is unknown due to the limited positional accuracy of the observing…

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In the recent years, the new generation of Imaging Atmospheric Cerenkov Telescopes successfully detected very high energy (VHE; E>100 GeV) gamma-ray emission from a growing number of Active Galactic Nuclei (AGNs), mainly belonging to the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2009-07-13 J. -P. Lenain

The origins of the diffuse flux of cosmogenic PeV neutrinos detected in the IceCube experiment during 2010 - 2017 remain unidentified. A population of extragalactic newly born fast spinning pulsars are investigated as possible candidates…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-11-09 Rajat K. Dey , Animesh Basak , Sabyasachi Ray , Tamal Sarkar

Radiation of both the outer gaps and the neutron star surface is considered for a Vela-like pulsar near the death line. It is shown that if such a pulsar is close enough to the death line, its optical, UV and X-ray emission has to increase.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-22 Vladimir V. Usov

The Crab pulsar is the only astronomical pulsed source detected above 100 GeV. The emission mechanism of very high energy gamma-ray pulsation is not yet fully understood, although several theoretical models have been proposed. In order to…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-14 T. Y. Saito , S. Bonnefoy , K. Hirotani , R. Zanin

We report on the first detection of pulsed radio emission from a radio pulsar with the ALMA telescope. The detection was made in the Band-3 frequency range (85-101 GHz) using ALMA in the phased-array mode developed for VLBI observations. A…

Some approaches to Quantum Gravity (QG) predict a modification of photon dispersion relations due to a breaking of Lorentz invariance. The effect is expected to affect photons near an effective QG energy scale. This scale has been…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-14 Mathieu Chrétien , Julien Bolmont , Agnieszka Jacholkowska

Many of the recently discovered TeV gamma-ray sources are associated with pulsar wind nebulae (PWNe). In fact, they represent the most populous class of Galactic sources at TeV energies. In addition, HESS has also discovered, in a survey of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Chulhoon Chang , Alexander Konopelko , Wei Cui

The non-detection of pulsed sub-TeV gamma-rays from EGRET pulsars proves that the EGRET pulsed spectra of all gamma-ray pulsars should terminate at energies below a few hundred GeV. The spectrum of a typical integrated pulse profile…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 O. C. de Jager , A. Konopelko , B. C. Raubenheimer , B. Visser

Observations of very-high-energy (VHE, E > 250 GeV) gamma-ray emission from several blazars at z > 0.1 have placed stringent constraints on the elusive spectrum and intensity of the intergalactic infrared background radiation (IIBR).…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Markus Boettcher , Charles D. Dermer , Justin D. Finke

We consider a situation in which a pulsar is formed inside or close to a high density region of a molecular cloud. Right after birth, the pulsar was very active and accelerated hadrons and leptons to very high energies. Hadrons diffuse…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 H. Bartko , W. Bednarek

We discuss the implications of the recent X-ray and TeV gamma-ray observations of the PSR B1259-63 system (a young rotation powered pulsar orbiting a Be star) for the theoretical models of interaction of pulsar and stellar winds. We show…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 A. Neronov , M. Chernyakova

Pulsars are rotating neutron stars, sweeping the emission regions from the magnetic poles across our line of sight. Isolated neutron stars lose angular momentum through dipole radiation and (possibly) particle winds, hence they slow down…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 R Dodson , D. R. Lewis , P. M. McCulloch

The Very High Energy Gamma Ray Astronomy (VHE) is a rapidly evolving branch of modern astronomy, which covers the range from about 50 GeV to several tens of TeV from the ground. In the past years, the second generation instruments firmly…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Mathieu de Naurois

Extended gamma-ray sources surrounding middle-aged pulsars, primarily observed at teraelectronvolt energies, have been interpreted as pulsar halos, where relativistic $e^\pm$ diffuse into the interstellar medium and produce inverse-Compton…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-02-25 Agnibha De Sarkar

Recently, gamma-ray halos of a few degree extension have been detected around two middle-aged pulsars, namely, Geminga and PSR B0656+14, by the High Altitude Water Cherenkov observatory (HAWC). The gamma-ray radiation arise from…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-12-08 Yi Zhang , Ruo-Yu Liu , S. Z. Chen , Xiang-Yu Wang