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Globular clusters are source of gamma-ray radiation. At GeV energies, their emission is attributed to magnetospheric activity of millisecond pulsars residing in the clusters. Inverse Compton scattering of ambient photon fields on…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-05-22 A. Zajczyk , W. Bednarek , B. Rudak

We investigate a stationary pair production cascade in the outer magnetosphere of a spinning neutron star. The charge depletion due to global flows of charged particles, causes a large electric field along the magnetic field lines.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Kouichi Hirotani , Shinpei Shibata

The solar disk is a continuous source of GeV--TeV gamma rays. The emission is thought to originate from hadronic Galactic cosmic rays (GCRs) interacting with the gas in the photosphere and uppermost convection zone after being reflected by…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-02-10 Jung-Tsung Li , Mahboubeh Asgari-Targhi , John F. Beacom , Annika H. G. Peter

The gamma-ray binary 1FGL J1018.6-5856 consists of an O6V((f)) type star and an unknown compact object, and shows orbitally modulated emission from radio to very high energy gamma rays. The X-ray light curve shows a maximum around the same…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-07-06 B. van Soelen , S. Mc Keague , D. Malyshev , M. Chernyakova , N. Komin , N. Matchett , I. M. Monageng

We investigate a stationary pair production cascade in the outer magnetosphere of an isolated, spinning neutron star. The charge depletion due to global flows of charged particles, causes a large electric field along the magnetic field…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Kouichi Hirotani

By proposing a pure leptonic radiation model, we study the potential gamma-ray emissions from jets of the low-mass X-ray binaries. In this model, the relativistic electrons that are accelerated in the jets are responsible for radiative…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-04-28 Jian-Fu Zhang , Wei-Min Gu , Tong Liu , Li Xue , Ju-Fu Lu

Here we investigate to what extent unresolved \gr pulsars contribute to the galactic diffuse emission, and further whether unresolved \gr pulsars can be made responsible for the excess of diffuse galactic emission above 1 GeV which has been…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Martin Pohl

Colliding wind binaries (CWBs) are promising sources of high-energy gamma-ray emission driven by shock acceleration of particles at wind interaction zones. The nearby CWB system $\gamma^2$ Velorum (WR 11), composed of a Wolf-Rayet (WR) and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-08-29 Agnibha De Sarkar

We analyze the model of gamma-ray binaries, consisting of a massive star and a pulsar with ultrarelativistic wind. We consider radiation from energetic particles, accelerated at the pulsar wind termination shock, and feedback of this…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-06-06 E. Derishev , F. Aharonian

The propagation of gamma-rays over cosmological distances is the subject of extensive theoretical and observational research at GeV and TeV energies. The mean free path of gamma-rays in the cosmic web is limited above 100 GeV due to the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-03-11 J. Biteau , M. Meyer

Pair beams produced by very high-energy radiation from TeV blazars emit gamma rays in the GeV band by inverse-Compton scattering of soft photons. The observed GeV-band signal is smaller than that expected from the full electromagnetic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-11-29 Iman Rafighi , Sergei Vafin , Jacek Niemiec , Martin Pohl

From the early days in gamma-ray astronomy, locating the origin of GeV emission within the core of an active galactic nucleus (AGN) persisted as an open question; the problem is to discern between near- and far-site scenarios with respect…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-08-22 B. Arsioli , Y-L. Chang

The MAGIC collaboration has recently reported correlated X-ray and very high-energy gamma-ray emission from the gamma-ray binary LS I +61 303 during ~60% of one orbit. These observations suggest that the emission in these two bands has its…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-03-17 V. Zabalza , J. M. Paredes , V. Bosch-Ramon

We report the discovery of MeV-GeV gamma-ray emission by the Fermi-LAT positionally coincident with the TeV pulsar wind nebula (PWN) HESS~J1554-550 within the host supernova remnant (SNR) G327.1-1.1. The gamma-ray emission is point-like and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-12-07 Jordan Eagle , Daniel Castro , Tea Temim , Jean Ballet , Patrick Slane , Joseph Gelfand , Matthew Kerr , Marco Ajello

We investigate a stationary pair production cascade in the outer magnetosphere of a spinning neutron star. The charge depletion due to global flows of charged particles, causes a large electric field along the magnetic field lines.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Kouichi Hirotani , Alice K. Harding , Shinpei Shibata

Microquasars, the local siblings of extragalactic quasars, are binary systems comprising a compact object and a companion star. By accreting matter from their companions, microquasars launch powerful winds and jets, influencing the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-08-25 Jian Li , Diego F. Torres , Ruo-Yu Liu , Matthew Kerr , Emma de Ona Wilhelmi , Yang Su

We study sky maps and light curves of gamma-ray emission from neutron stars in compact binaries, and in isolation. We briefly review some gamma-ray emission models, and reproduce sky maps from a standard isolated pulsar in the Separatrix…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-02-18 Néstor Ortiz , Federico Carrasco , Stephen R. Green , Luis Lehner , Steven L. Liebling , John Ryan Westernacher-Schneider

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

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

The HAWC Gamma-Ray Observatory has reported the discovery of TeV gamma-ray emission extending several degrees around the positions of Geminga and B0656+14 pulsars. Assuming these gamma rays are produced by inverse Compton scattering off…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-13 F. Salesa Greus , S. Casanova , B. Dingus , R. Lopez-Coto , H. Zhou