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The Vela supernova remnant (SNR) is a complex region containing a number of sources of non-thermal radiation. The inner section of this SNR, within 2 degrees of the pulsar PSR B0833-45, has been observed by the H.E.S.S. gamma-ray…

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The dominant mechanisms underlying high-energy $\gamma$-ray emission from galaxies vary by galaxy type. In starbursts, a major contribution comes from neutral pion decay. This is driven by interactions between interstellar gas and hadronic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-08-26 Ellis R. Owen , Yoshiyuki Inoue , Chung-Yue Hui , Tatsuki Fujiwara , Albert K. H. Kong

Current generation of ground based gamma-ray telescopes observed dozens of sources of photons above 100 TeV. Supernova remnants, pulsar wind nebulae, young stellar clusters and superbubbles are considered as possible sites of PeV-regime…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-10-08 A. M. Bykov , A. E. Petrov , G. A. Ponomaryov , K. P. Levenfish , M. Falanga

We consider nebulae which are created around binary systems containing rotation powered pulsars and companion stars with strong stellar winds. It is proposed that the stellar and pulsar winds have to mix at some distance from the binary…

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

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…

The variable flux of TeV gamma-rays detected from Mkn 421 and Mkn 501 requires the presence of high energy electrons, which could in principle produce large numbers of electron/positron pairs, leading to an electromagnetic cascade. We point…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-11-30 W. Bednarek , J. G. Kirk , A. Mastichiadis

Young pulsars produce relativistic winds which interact with matter ejected during the supernova explosion and the surrounding interstellar gas. Particles are accelerated to very high energies somewhere in the pulsar winds or at the shocks…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 W. Bednarek

In the advent of next generation gamma-ray missions, we present general properties of spectral features of high-energy emission above $1\MeV$ expected for a class of millisecond, low magnetic field ($\sim 10^9\G$) pulsars. We extend…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 T. Bulik , B. Rudak , J. Dyks

We report on analysis of timing and spectroscopy of the Vela pulsar using eleven months of observations with the Large Area Telescope on the Fermi Gamma-Ray Space Telescope. The intrinsic brightness of Vela at GeV energies combined with the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-18 A. A. Abdo

We present multiwavelength studies of the 106.6 ms gamma-ray pulsar PSR J1907+06 near the TeV source MGRO J1908+06. Timing observations with Fermi result in a precise position determination for the pulsar of R.A. = 19h07m547(2), decl. =…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-14 Fermi LAT Collaboration , the Fermi Pulsar Timing Consortium , : , A. A. Abdo

TeV Halos, extended regions of TeV gamma-ray emission around middle-aged pulsars, have recently been established as a new source class in gamma-ray astronomy. These halos have been attributed to relativistic electrons and positrons that…

The launch of the Fermi gamma-ray space telescope and the imaging air Cerenkov telescopes H.E.S.S., MAGIC, and VERITAS have substantially transformed our knowledge of gamma-ray sources in the last decade. The extragalactic gamma-ray sky is…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-09-02 C. Pfrommer

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 estimate the TeV gamma-ray fluxes expected from the population of young pulsars in terms of the self-consistent time dependent hadronic-leptonic model for the high energy processes inside the pulsar wind nebulae. This radiation model…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 W. Bednarek , M. Bartosik

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

A two-dimensional electrodynamic model is used to study particle acceleration and non-thermal emission mechanisms in the pulsar magnetospheres. We solve distribution of the accelerating electric field with the emission process and the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 J. Takata , H. -K. Chang , S. Shibata

Pulsar Wind Nebulae (PWNe) represent the most prominent population of Galactic very-high-energy gamma-ray sources and are thought to be an efficient source of leptonic cosmic rays. Vela X is a nearby middle-aged PWN, which shows bright…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-07-10 H. E. S. S. Collaboration

High-energy gamma rays are a valuable tool for studying particle acceleration and radiation in the magnetospheres of energetic pulsars. The six or more pulsars seen by CGRO/EGRET show that: the light curves usually have double-peak…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 David J. Thompson

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

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