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We compute the patterns of $\gamma$-ray emission due to curvature radiation in dissipative pulsar magnetospheres. Our ultimate goal is to construct macrophysical models that are able to reproduce the observed $\gamma$-ray light-curve…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-17 Constantinos Kalapotharakos , Alice K. Harding , Demosthenes Kazanas

Dissipative axisymmetric pulsar magnetosphere is calculated by a direct numerical simulation of the Strong-Field Electrodynamics equations. The magnetic separatrix disappears, it is replaced by a region of enhanced dissipation. With a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-23 Andrei Gruzinov

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

Previous works have suggested a correlation between the X-ray luminosity Lx and the rotational luminosity Lrot of the radio pulsars.However, none of the obtained regression lines are statistically acceptable due to large scatters. We…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-12-14 S. Shibata , E. Watanabe , Y. Yatsu , T. Enoto , A. Bamba

The study of pulsars in the three and a half decades since their discovery has highlighted a handful of issues critical to their understanding. To date there is no consensus on the physical mechanism for their radio radio emission, despite…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Matthew G. Baring

The magnetospheric plasma distribution in the vicinity of a pulsar at various inclination angles is investigated using a new relativistic, parallel 3D Particle-In-Cell (PIC) code DYMPHNA3D. DYMPHNA3D uses a superposition of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-12-18 John Mc Donald , Andrew Shearer

Pulsars provide unique probes for the {\it large-scale} interstellar magnetic field in the Galactic disk. The Parkes multibeam pulsar survey has discovered many distant pulsars which enables us for the first time to explore the magnetic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 J. L. Han , R. N. Manchester , G. J. Qiao , A. G. Lyne

We present the results of 2.5 years AGILE observations of PSR B1509-58. The modulation significance of the light-curve above 30 MeV is at a sigma confidence level and the light-curve is similar to those found earlier up to 30 MeV by \comp:…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2011-03-31 Maura Pilia , Alberto Pellizzoni

We present a statistical study of pulsars and millisecond pulsars (MSPs) based on multiwavelength observations in the Galactic Field and Globular Clusters. We examine their emission properties, timing behavior, and spatial distributions,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-02-10 Maria Rah , Areg Mickaelian , Francesco Flammini Dotti , Rainer Spurzem

NASA's NICER telescope has recently provided evidence for non-dipolar magnetic field structures in rotation-powered millisecond pulsars. These stars are assumed to have gone through a prolonged accretion spin-up phase, begging the question…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-07-20 Pushpita Das , Oliver Porth , Anna Watts

Radio polarization measurements of pulsed emission from pulsars offer a valuable insight into the basic geometry of the neutron star: inclination angle between the magnetic and rotation axis and inclination of the line of sight. So far, all…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-01-11 J. Pétri

Inspired by increase of population of $\gamma$-ray emitting pulsars by the $Fermi$ telescope, we perform a population study for $\gamma$-ray emitting canonical pulsars. We use a Monte-Carlo technique to simulate the Galactic population of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-20 J. Takata , Y. Wang , K. S. Cheng

Using an analytic, axisymmetric approach that includes general relativity, coupled to a condition for pair production deduced from simulations, we derive general results about the spatial distribution of pair-producing field lines over the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-10-26 Mikhail A. Belyaev , Kyle Parfrey

We use a simple two-layer outer gap model, whose accelerator consists of a primary region and a screening region, to discuss $\gamma$-ray spectrum of mature pulsars detected by $Fermi$. By solving the Poisson equation with an assumed simple…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-19 Y. Wang , J. Takata , K. S. Cheng

In binary radio pulsar system J0737-3039, slow pulsar B shows orbital modulations of intensity, being especially bright at two short orbital phases. We propose that these modulations are due to distortion of pulsar B magnetosphere by pulsar…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Maxim Lyutikov

In gamma-ray binaries neutron star is orbiting a companion that produces a strong stellar wind. We demonstrate that observed properties of "stellar wind"-"pulsar wind" interaction depend both on the overall wind thrust ratio, as well as…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-06-26 Maxim V. Barkov , Evgeniy Kalinin , Maxim Lyutikov

We present 3D global kinetic pulsar magnetosphere models, where the charged particle trajectories and the corresponding electromagnetic fields are treated self-consistently. For our study, we have developed a cartesian 3D relativistic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-04-25 Constantinos Kalapotharakos , Gabriele Brambilla , Andrey Timokhin , Alice K. Harding , Demosthenes Kazanas

Millisecond pulsars (MSPs) have been established as a class of high-energy ($\geq$0.1 GeV) emitters with the Large Area Telescope (LAT) aboard the \emph{Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope}. Most MSP gamma-ray light curves display sharp peaks…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2012-09-19 T. J. Johnson

We study the pulsar energy-dependent $\gamma$-ray light curves and spectra from curvature radiation in the dissipative magnetospheres. The dissipative magnetospheres with the combined force-free (FFE) and Aristotelian (AE) are computed by a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-03-12 Gang Cao , Xiongbang Yang

We investigate the electrodynamic structure of a pulsar outer-magnetospheric particle accelerator and the resultant gamma-ray emission. By considering the condition for the accelerator to be self-sustained, we derive how the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-12 Kouichi Hirotani
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