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We investigate the high-energy (HE) ($<1$GeV) emission from the pulsar PSR B1509-58 and its relation to the radio emission in the 1.4GHz frequency band. The role of the quasi-linear diffusion in producing the pulsed HE radiation is…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2012-12-11 Nino Chkheidze , Zaza Osmanov

Recently, the High Altitude Water Cherenkov (HAWC) collaboration reported the discovery of the TeV halo around the Geminga pulsar. The TeV emission is believed to originate from inverse Compton scattering of pulsar-injected…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-04-26 Ruo-Yu Liu , Chong Ge , Xiao-Na Sun , Xiang-Yu Wang

There is mounting evidence that, if gamma-ray bursters are Galactic in origin, they are located in a Galactic corona at distances greater than 100 kpc. This has created a need to explore new models of cyclotron line formation. In most…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 Michael Isenberg , D. Q. Lamb , John C. L. Wang

In Basu et al. 2011 we reported the detection of Off-pulse emission from two long period pulsars B0525+21 and B2045-16. The pulsars were observed at a single epoch using the 325 MHz frequency band of the Giant Meterwave Radio Telescope…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2012-10-04 Rahul Basu , Dipanjan Mitra , Ramana Athreya

We consider the interaction of a weak gravitational wave with electromagnetic fields in a thin plasma on a Minkowski background spacetime using the 1+3 orthonormal frame formalism. Because gravitational and electromagnetic waves satisfy the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Mattias Marklund , Gert Brodin , Peter Dunsby

We consider wakefield generation in plasmas by electromagnetic pulses propagating perpendicular to a strong magnetic field, in the regime where the electron cyclotron frequency is equal to or larger than the plasma frequency.…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-05-27 A. Holkundkar , G. Brodin , M. Marklund

We describe the serendipitous discovery of a radio point source in a 618 MHz image of the supernova remnant(SNR) G76.9+1.0. The SNR has a bipolar structure and the point source is located near a faint bridge of emission joining the two…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-28 V. R. Marthi , J. N. Chengalur , Y. Gupta , G. C. Dewangan , D. Bhattacharya

We reproduce the broadband spectrum of Crab pulsar, from UV to very high energy gamma-rays - nearly ten decades in energy, within the framework of the cyclotron-self-Compton model. Emission is produced by two counter-streaming beams within…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-11 Maxim Lyutikov

Geminga is the second brightest persistent source in the GeV gamma-ray sky. Discovered in 1975 by SAS-2 mission, it was identified as a pulsar only in the 90s, when ROSAT detected the 237 ms X-ray periodicity, that was later also found by…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2009-12-31 M. Razzano , D. Dumora , F. Gargano

Blazars emit a highly-variable non-thermal spectrum. It is usually assumed that the same non-thermal electrons are responsible for the IR-optical-UV emission (via synchrotron) and the gamma-ray emission (via inverse Compton). Hence, the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-03-10 Emanuele Sobacchi , Joonas Nättilä , Lorenzo Sironi

Using a simplified model of cascade pair creation over pulsar polar caps presented in two previous papers, we investigate the expected gamma-ray output from pulsars' low altitude particle acceleration and pair creation regions. We divide…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 J. A. Hibschman

Observational data imply the presence of superluminal electric currents in pulsar magnetospheres. Such sources are not inconsistent with special relativity; they have already been created in the laboratory. Here we describe the distinctive…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2009-03-04 Houshang Ardavan , Arzhang Ardavan , Joseph Fasel , John Middleditch , Mario Perez , Andrea Schmidt , John Singleton

Context. More than one hundred GeV pulsars have been detected up to now by the LAT telescope on the Fermi gamma-ray observatory, showing peak energies around a few GeV. Current modelling proposes that the high energy emission comes from…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-11 Ioanna Arka , Guillaume Dubus

Geminga is a radio-quiet pulsar ~250 parsecs from Earth that was first discovered as a GeV gamma-ray source and then identified as a pulsar. Milagro observed an extended TeV source spatially consistent with Geminga. HAWC observes a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-13 B. M. Baughman , J. Wood

The model of pulsar radio emission is discussed in which a coherent radio emis-sion is excited in a vacuum gap above polar cap of neutron star. Pulsar X and gamma radiation are considered as the result of low-frequency radio emission…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-23 V. M. Kontorovich , A. B. Flanchik

We study the pulse morphologies and pulse amplitudes of thermally emitting neutron stars with ultrastrong magnetic fields. The beaming of the radiation emerging from a magnetar was recently shown to be predominantly non-radial, with a small…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Feryal Ozel

Extinct radio pulsars, in which stationary, self-sustaining generation of a relativistic electron-positron plasma becomes impossible when rotation brakes down, can be sources of a subrelativistic flux of positrons and electrons. We assume…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-09-24 Ya. N. Istomin , D. O. Chernyshov , D. N. Sob'yanin

Recent observations of the Vela pulsar have revealed a peculiar connection of its emission in the soft X-ray and radio ranges. We suggest the model of the radio pulse formation in the Vela pulsar, develop the theory of the radio photon…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2009-11-13 S. A. Petrova

Synchrotron emission of relativistic particles in magnetic fields is a process of paramount importance in astrophysics. Although known for over thirty years, there are still aspects of this radiative process that have received little…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Roberto Aloisio , Pasquale Blasi

The focusing of the radiation generated by a polarization current with a superluminally rotating distribution pattern is of a higher order in the plane of rotation than in other directions. Consequently, our previously published asymptotic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Houshang Ardavan , Arzhang Ardavan , John Singleton , Joseph Fasel , Andrea Schmidt