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We investigate a stationary pair production cascade in the outer magnetosphere of a spinning neutron star. The charge depletion due to global flows of charged particles, causes a large electric field along the magnetic field lines.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Kouichi Hirotani , Alice K. Harding , Shinpei Shibata

The Vela pulsar represents a distinct group of {\gamma}-ray pulsars. Fermi {\gamma}-ray observations reveal that it has two sharp peaks (P1 and P2) in the light curve with a phase separation of 0.42 and a third peak (P3) in the bridge. The…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2011-06-17 Y. J. Du , J. L. Han , G. J. Qiao , C. K. Chou

The most energetic neutron stars, powered by their rotation, are capable of producing pulsed radiation from the radio up to gamma rays with nearly TeV energies. These pulsars are part of the universe of energetic and powerful particle…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-09-30 Isabelle A. Grenier , Alice K. Harding

We investigate whether gamma-ray pulsars viewed at a large angle to the neutron star magnetic pole could contribute to the new population of galactic unidentified EGRET sources associated with the Gould Belt. The faint, soft nature of these…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Alice K. Harding , Bing Zhang

The LHAASO Collaboration has recently reported a measurement of the diffuse gamma-ray emission from the Galactic Plane at energies between 10 TeV and 1 PeV. While this emission is brighter than that expected from cosmic-ray interactions in…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-10-18 Ariane Dekker , Ian Holst , Dan Hooper , Giovani Leone , Emily Simon , Huangyu Xiao

We investigate the $\gamma$-ray emission from 38 millisecond pulsars using 15 years of Fermi-LAT Pass 8 data in the 0.3--500 GeV range. Off-pulse intervals defined objectively with the Bayesian Blocks algorithm reveal significant off-pulse…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-02-17 Ming-Yu Lei , Zhao-Qiang Shen , Zi-Qing Xia , Xiaoyuan Huang

TeV haloes are a recently discovered class of very high energy gamma-ray emitters. These sources consist of extended regions of multi-TeV emission, originally observed around the two well-known and nearby pulsars, Geminga and PSR B0656+14…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-09-04 Elena Amato , Sarah Recchia

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

The origin of the pulsed gamma-ray emission in pulsars remains an open issue. The combination of sensitive observations in the GeV domain by AGILE and {\em Fermi}-LAT and increasingly sophisticated numerical simulations have recently…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-11-26 Benoît Cerutti

Using the HEGRA system of imaging atmospheric Cherenkov telescopes, a region of the Galactic plane (-10 deg < b < 5 deg, 38 deg < l < 43 deg) was surveyed for TeV gamma-ray emission, both from point sources and of diffuse nature. The region…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 HEGRA-Collaboration , F. Aharonian

A synthesis of the present knowledge on gamma-ray emission from the magnetosphere of a rapidly rotating neutron star is presented, focusing on the electrodynamics of particle accelerators. The combined curvature, synchrotron, and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Kouichi Hirotani

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

Electrons/positrons produced in a pulsar magnetosphere emit synchrotron radiation, which is widely believed as the origin of the non-thermal X-ray emission detected from pulsars. Particles are produced by curvature photons emitted from…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-03-03 Shota Kisaka , Shuta J. Tanaka

We describe a refined calculation of high energy emission from rotation-powered pulsars based on the Outer Gap model of Cheng, Ho \&~Ruderman (1986a,b). We have improved upon previous efforts to model the spectra from these pulsars (e. g.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-22 J. Chiang , R. W. Romani

The HAWC Collaboration has observed gamma rays at energies above 56 TeV from a collection of nine sources. It has been suggested that this emission could be hadronic in nature, requiring that these systems accelerate cosmic-ray protons or…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-10-01 Takahiro Sudoh , Tim Linden , Dan Hooper

We consider a situation in which a pulsar (and its nebula) is formed inside or close to a high density regions of a molecular cloud. We apply a recent model for the gamma radiation of pulsar wind nebulae (PWN), which includes not only…

Astrophysics · Physics 2013-06-21 H. Bartko , W. Bednarek

Observing simultaneously pulsed radio and gamma-ray emission from these stars helps to constrain the geometry and radiation mechanisms within their magnetosphere and to localize the multiple photon production sites. In this paper, we fit…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-10-20 J. Pétri , D. Mitra

The non-detection of pulsed sub-TeV gamma-rays from EGRET pulsars proves that the EGRET pulsed spectra of all gamma-ray pulsars should terminate at energies below a few hundred GeV. The spectrum of a typical integrated pulse profile…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 O. C. de Jager , A. Konopelko , B. C. Raubenheimer , B. Visser

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