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Since pulsars were discovered as emitters of bright coherent radio emission more than half a century ago, the cause of the emission has remained a mystery. In this Letter we demonstrate that coherent radiation can be directly generated in…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-06-29 Alexander Philippov , Andrey Timokhin , Anatoly Spitkovsky

The pulsar radio emission is commonly associated with the plasma outflow in the open field line tube; then a pencil beam is emitted along the pulsar magnetic axis. Observations suggest that there is an additional radio emission mechanism…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-12-12 Yuri Lyubarsky

We present a geometric study of the radio and gamma-ray pulsar B1055-52 based on recent observations at the Parkes radio telescope. We conclude that the pulsar's magnetic axis is inclined at an angle of 75 degrees to its rotation axis and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Patrick Weltevrede , Geoff Wright

Observations of the five confirmed optical pulsars indicate that the peak emission scales according to the magnetic field strength at the light cylinder. To the accuracy that such low number allows we show that this gives further…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Shearer , A. Golden

The origin of the positron excess is one of the most intriguing mysteries in astroparticle physics. The recent discovery of extended $\gamma$-ray halos around the pulsars Geminga, Monogem and PSR J0621+3755 have brought indirect evidence…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-12-07 Donglin Wu

(abridged) Gamma-ray binaries are massive stars with compact object companions that are observed to emit most of their energy in the gamma-ray range. One of these binaries is known to contain a radio pulsar, PSR B1259-63. Synchrotron and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-27 Jérôme Pétri , Guillaume Dubus

In the present paper a self-consistent theory, explaining shape of the observed phase-averaged radio spectrum in the frequency range from 100MHz to 10GHz is presented. The radio waves are assumed to be generated near the light cylinder…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-19 George Machabeli , Nino Chkheidze

We have examined the cyclotron resonance instability developing in the relativistic out-flowing plasma in the pulsar magnetosphere. The instability condition leads to radio emission in the sub-GHz frequency regime which is likely to be seen…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-16 Rahul Basu , Dipanjan Mitra , George I. Melikidze

Polarization measurements provide strong constraints on models for emission from rotation-powered pulsars. We present multiwavelength polarization predictions showing that measurements over a range of frequencies can be particularly…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-05-24 Alice K. Harding , Constantinos Kalapotharakos

In this paper, we report a detailed investigation of the multiwavelength properties of a newly detected gamma-ray pulsar, PSR J2021+4026, in both observational and theoretical aspects. We firstly identify an X-ray source in the XMM-Newton…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2010-08-26 L. Trepl , C. Y. Hui , K. S. Cheng , J. Takata , Y. Wang , Z. Y. Liu , N. Wang

Synchrotron radiation sources are immensely useful tools for scientific researches and many practical applications. Currently, the state-of-the-art synchrotrons rely on conventional accelerators, where electrons are accelerated in a…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-03-31 Min Chen , Fei-Yu Li , Ji Luo , Feng Liu , Zheng-Ming Sheng , Jie Zhang

Radio luminosities have been estimated from published data for a well-defined homogeneous set of 29 normal pulsars. The radio-frequency energies per unit charge in the primary accelerated particle beam are given for each pulsar and form a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-22 P. B. Jones

Extended periods of radio pulsations have been observed for six magnetars, displaying characteristics different from those of ordinary pulsars. In this Letter, we argue that radio emission is generated in a closed, twisted magnetic flux…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-12-18 Shuzhe Zeng , Alexander Philippov , James Juno , Andrei M. Beloborodov , Elena Popova

Accuracy in the absolute position in the sky is one of the limiting factors for pulsar timing, and timing parameters have a direct impact on the understanding of the physics of Isolated Neutron Stars (INS). We report here on a high-accuracy…

Recent observations have detected a number of young pulsars from the power peak in the gamma-ray band to the incoherent photon peak in the optical/IR. We have made progress on the multiwavelength phenomenology of pulsar emission and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Roger W. Romani

We reanalyze the Fermi spectra of the Geminga and Vela pulsars. We find that the spectrum of Geminga above the break is exceptionally well approximated by a simple power law without the exponential cut-off, making Geminga's spectrum similar…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-04 Maxim Lyutikov

We derive an upper limit of 3 mJy (95% confidence) for the flux density at 317 MHz of the Geminga pulsar (J0633+1746). Our results are based on 7 hours of fast-sampled VLA data, which we averaged synchronously with the pulse period using a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 M. A. McLaughlin , J. M. Cordes , T. H. Hankins , D. A. Moffett

We use the cyclotron-maser theory to explain the core emission from the magnetosphere of pulsars. As a kind of direct and efficient maser type of emission, it can give rise to escaping radiation with extremely high brightness temperature…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Chun-yu Ma , Ding-yi Mao , De-yu Wang , Xin-ji Wu

Using the outer gap model, we investigate the emission region for the multi-wavelength light curve from energetic pulsars. We assume that gamma-ray and non-thermal X-ray photons are emitted from a particle acceleration region in the outer…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-28 Shota Kisaka , Yasufumi Kojima

The general model for incoherent synchrotron radiation has long been known, with the first theory being published by Westfold in $1959$ and continued by Westfold and Legg in $1968$. When this model was first developed it was applied to…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-24 Diarmaid de Búrca , Andrew Shearer