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Gamma-ray pulsar halos are ideal indicators of cosmic-ray propagation in localized regions of the Galaxy and electron injection from pulsar wind nebulae. HESS~J1831$-$098 is a candidate pulsar halo observed by both H.E.S.S. and HAWC…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-12-28 Kun Fang , Shao-Qiang Xi , Li-Zhuo Bao , Xiao-Jun Bi , En-Sheng Chen

The pulsar emission mechanism in the gamma-ray energy band is poorly understood. Currently, there are several models under discussion in the pulsar community. These models can be constrained by studying the collective properties of a sample…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-08-28 A. U. Abeysekara , J. T. Linnemann

We report the Fermi Large Area Telescope (Fermi-LAT) detection of the gamma-ray emission towards the young massive star cluster RSGC 1. Using the latest source catalog and diffuse background models, we found that the diffuse gamma-ray…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-06-04 Xiao-Na Sun , Rui-Zhi Yang , Xiang-Yu Wang

A recent study by Posselt et al. (2017) reported the deepest X-ray investigation of the Geminga pulsar wind nebula (PWN) by using \emph{Chandra X-ray Observatory}. In comparison with previous studies of this system, a number of new findings…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-09-20 C. Y. Hui , Jongsu Lee , A. K. H. Kong , P. H. T. Tam , J. Takata , K. S. Cheng , Dongsu Ryu

Recent observations of Sgr A$^*$ by Fermi and HESS have detected steady gamma-ray emission in the GeV and TeV bands. We present a new model to explain the GeV gamma-ray emission by inverse Compton scattering by nonthermal electrons supplied…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-03 Masaaki Kusunose , Fumio Takahara

Gamma-ray binaries are thought to be composed of a young pulsar in orbit around a massive O or Be star, with their gamma-ray emission powered by pulsar spindown. The number of such systems in our Galaxy is not known. We aim to estimate the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-12-13 Guillaume Dubus , Nicolas Guillard , Pierre-Olivier Petrucci , Pierrick Martin

Globular clusters (GCs) with their ages of the order of several billion years contain many final products of evolution of stars such as: neutron stars, white dwarfs and probably also black holes. These compact objects can be at present…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-19 W. Bednarek

4FGL J1015.5-6030 is an unidentified Fermi-LAT source hosting a bright, extended X-ray source whose X-ray spectrum is consistent with that of a young pulsar, yet no pulsations have been found. Here we report on XMM-Newton timing and Chandra…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-07-12 Jeremy Hare , Oleg Kargaltsev , George Younes , George G. Pavlov , Igor Volkov

Since the launch of the Fermi Gamma-Ray Space Telescope, several hundred gamma-ray pulsars have been discovered, some being radio-loud and some radio-quiet with time-aligned radio and gamma-ray light curves. In the second Fermi Pulsar…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-03-17 O. Benli , J. Petri , Dipanjan Mitra

We present a Chandra X-ray observation of G12.82-0.02, a shell-like radio supernova remnant coincident with the TeV gamma-ray source HESS J1813-178. We resolve the X-ray emission from the co-located ASCA source into a compact object…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 E. V. Gotthelf , D. J. Helfand

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 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

Gamma-ray observations have shown pulsars to be efficient converters of rotational energy into GeV photons and it is of wide-ranging interest to determine their contribution to the gamma-ray background. We arrive at flux predictions from…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-01-26 Ryan M. O'Leary , Matthew D. Kistler , Matthew Kerr , Jason Dexter

PSR J0437-4715 is a gamma-ray millisecond pulsar, which has been detected by Fermi-LAT. For understanding the nature, we analyze the GeV gamma-ray data obtained with Fermi-LAT around the pulsar region. Based on the pulsar timing ephemeris,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-04-30 Ziwei Ou

There is active interest in the extent to which unresolved gamma-ray pulsars contribute to the galactic diffuse emission, and whether unresolved gamma-ray pulsars could be responsible for the excess of diffuse galactic emission above 1 GeV…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Martin Pohl , Gottfried Kanbach , Stan D. Hunter , Brian B. Jones

Distance measurements of gamma-ray pulsars are challenging questions in present pulsar studies. The Large Area Telescope (LAT) aboard the Fermi gamma-ray observatory discovered more than 70 gamma-ray pulsars including 24 new gamma-selected…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-27 W. Wang

Gamma-ray photons from young pulsars allow the deepest insight into the properties and interactions of high-energy particles with magnetic and photon fields in a pulsar magnetosphere. Measurements with the Compton Gamma-Ray Observatory have…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-09-29 Gottfried Kanbach

We report on six new Chandra observations of the Geminga pulsar wind nebula (PWN). The PWN consists of three distinct elongated structures - two $\approx 0.2 d_{250}$ pc long lateral tails and a segmented axial tail of $\approx 0.05…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-01-25 B. Posselt , G. G. Pavlov , P. O. Slane , R. Romani , N. Bucciantini , A. M. Bykov , O. Kargaltsev , M. C. Weisskopf , C. -Y. Ng

The BATSE experiment has now observed more than 1100 gamma-ray bursts. The observed angular distribution is isotropic, while the brightness distribution of bursts shows a reduced number of faint events. These observations favor a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 Dieter Hartmann , Ramesh Narayan

We present a high-resolution (24 arcsec) study of the HI interstellar gas distribution around the radio-quiet neutron star Geminga. Based on Very Large Array (VLA) and MPIfR Effelsberg telescope data, we analyzed a 40' x 40' field around…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 E. Giacani , E. Reynoso , G. Dubner , W. M. Goss , A. Green , S. Johnston