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In this work we present a revised measurement of the phase-averaged optical polarisation of the Vela pulsar (PSR B0833-45), for which only one value has been published so far (Wagner & Seifert 2000). Our measurement has been obtained…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 R. P. Mignani , S. Bagnulo , J. Dyks , G. Lo Curto , A. Slowikowska

The Palomar Ultraviolet Laser for the Study of Exoplanets (PULSE) will dramatically expand the science reach of PALM-3000, the facility high-contrast extreme adaptive optics system on the 5-meter Hale Telescope. By using an ultraviolet…

The transitional millisecond pulsar PSR\,J1023+0038 is the first millisecond pulsar discovered to emit UV and optical pulses. Here we present the results of the UV and X-ray phase-resolved timing analysis of observations performed with the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-04-20 A. Miraval Zanon , F. Ambrosino , F. Coti Zelati , S. Campana , A. Papitto , G. Illiano , G. L. Israel , L. Stella , P. D'Avanzo , M. C. Baglio

Pulsars are among the most highly polarized sources in the universe. The NVSS has catalogued 2 million radio sources with linear polarization measurements, from which we have selected 253 sources, with polarization percentage greater than…

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

The Large Area Telescope (LAT) on Fermi, launched on 2008 June 11, is a space telescope to explore the high energy gamma-ray universe. The instrument covers the energy range from 20 MeV to 300 GeV with greatly improved sensitivity and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2010-06-18 Damien Parent

We present the results of a search for pulsed TeV emission from the Crab pulsar using the Whipple Observatory's 10 m gamma-ray telescope. The direction of the Crab pulsar was observed for a total of 73.4 hours between 1994 November and 1997…

Since 1996, the CAT experiment, operating at the THEMIS site (French Pyrenees), has been collecting Very High Energy (VHE) gamma-ray data from the Crab. The temporal analysis of photon arrival times folded with the pulsar parameters did not…

Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-14 A. Musquere

We have used the Effelsberg 100-m radio telescope to conduct a 1400-MHz ($\lambda$ 21-cm) search for young and rapidly rotating radio pulsars along a 2 deg$^2$ strip of the northern Galactic plane defined by $28^{\circ} \leq l \leq…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 D. R. Lorimer , M. Kramer , P. Mueller , N. Wex , A. Jessner , C. Lange , R. Wielebinski

The Crab nebula and its pulsar have been observed for about 3 hours with the high-speed photo-polarimeter OPTIMA in January 2002 at the Calar Alto 3.5m telescope. The Crab pulsar intensity and polarization are determined at all phases of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-01-14 G. Kanbach , A. Slowikowska , S. Kellner , H. Steinle

The Fermi Large Area Telescope has revolutionised the $\gamma$-ray pulsar field, increasing the population to over 250 detected pulsars. The majority display spectra with exponential cutoffs in a narrow range around a few GeV. Models…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-03-22 M. Barnard

Pulsars are arguably the only astrophysical sources whose emission spans the entire electromagnetic spectrum, from decameter radio wavelengths to TeV energies. The LOw Frequency ARray (LOFAR) offers the unique possibility to study pulsars…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-11 Vladislav Kondratiev , the LOFAR Pulsar Working Group

Pulsars, if existing and detectable in the immediate vicinity of the massive black hole (MBH) in the Galactic center (GC), may be used as a superb tool to probe both the environment and the metric of the central MBH. The recent discovery of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-18 Fupeng Zhang , Youjun Lu , Qingjuan Yu

The Large Area Telescope (LAT) on Fermi has detected ~150 gamma-ray pulsars, about a third of which were discovered in blind searches of the $\gamma$-ray data. Because the angular resolution of the LAT is relatively poor and blind searches…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-17 P. M. Saz Parkinson , A. Belfiore , P. Caraveo , A. De Luca , M. Marelli

The Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) is a powerful pulsar detector, as demonstrated by the over one hundred objects in its second catalog of pulsars. Pass 8 is a new reconstruction and event selection strategy developed by the Fermi-LAT…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-14 H. Laffon , D. A. Smith , L. Guillemot

The pulsar velocity distribution provides information about the binary history of pulsar progenitors as well as asymmetries of the supernova events in which pulsars are born. Studies of local pulsars present a biased view of this…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 R. S. McGary , W. F. Brisken , A. S. Fruchter , W. M. Goss , S. E. Thorsett

We present results of optical-UV observations of the 200 Myr old rotation-powered radio pulsar J0108$-$1431 with the Hubble Space Telescope. We found a putative candidate for the far-UV (FUV) pulsar counterpart, with the flux density $f_\nu…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-04-14 Vadim Abramkin , Yuriy Shibanov , Roberto P. Mignani , George G. Pavlov

Gravitational light bending by compact stars is an important astrophysical phenomenon. The bending angle depends on the stellar compactness, which is the ratio of stellar mass $M$ to radius $R$. In this paper, we investigate the pulse…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-08-29 Hajime Sotani , Umpei Miyamoto

We investigate the possibilities that pulsars act as the lens in gravitational microlensing events towards the galactic bulge or a spiral arm. Our estimation is based on expectant survey and observations of FAST (Five hundred meter Aperture…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-14 S. Dai , R. X. Xu , A. Esamdin

PSR J0108-1431 is a nearby, 170 Myr old, very faint radio pulsar near the "pulsar death line" in the P-Pdot diagram. We observed the pulsar field with the Chandra X-ray Observatory and detected a point source (53 counts in a 30 ks exposure,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-23 G. G. Pavlov , O. Kargaltsev , J. A. Wong , G. P. Garmire

Pulsars are commonly regarded as highly magnetized neutron stars, rotating up to several hundred times per second. Over 1,500 radio pulsars have been found so far, about 70 of which are X-ray pulsars, but only a handful have been observed…