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We report here on multifrequency radio observations of the pulsed emission from PSR B1259-63 around the time of the closest approach to its B2e companion star. There was a general increase in the pulsar's dispersion measure and scatter…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Simon Johnston , N. Wex , L. Nicastro , R. N. Manchester , A. G. Lyne

We report here on extensive radio observations of the binary system containing PSR B1259-63 and the Be star SS 2883, made around the time of the 2004 periastron. This is the fourth periastron to have been observed in detail. As in previous…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Simon Johnston , Lewis Ball , N. Wang , R. N. Manchester

PSR B1259-63 is in a highly eccentric 3.4 year orbit with a Be star and crosses the Be star disc twice per orbit, just prior to and just after periastron. Unpulsed radio, X-ray and gamma-ray emission observed from the binary system is…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 M. Chernyakova , A. Neronov , A. Lutovinov , J. Rodriguez , S. Johnston

PSR B1259-63 is a 48 ms radio pulsar in a highly eccentric 3.4 year orbit with a Be star SS 2883. Unpulsed gamma-ray, X-ray and radio emission components are observed from the binary system. It is likely that the collision of the pulsar…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-13 M. Chernyakova , A. Neronov , F. Aharonian , Y. Uchiyama , T. Takahashi

We discuss the interpretation of transient, unpulsed radio emission detected from the unique pulsar/Be-star binary system PSR B1259-63. Extensive monitoring of the 1994 and 1997 periastron passages has shown that the source flares over a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Lewis Ball , Andrew Melatos , Simon Johnston , Olaf Skjaeraasen

We report the results of a CGRO 3-week observation of the binary system containing the 47 ms pulsar PSR B1259-63 orbiting around a Be star companion in a very eccentric orbit. The PSR B1259-63 binary is a unique system for the study of the…

We report Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) observations of the binary system containing the pulsar PSR B1259-63 orbiting around a Be star LS 2883 after the 2017 periastron passage. We detected radio continuum emission…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-14 Yutaka Fujita , Akiko Kawachi , Takuya Akahori , Hiroshi Nagai , Masaki Yamaguchi

We report the discovery of very-high-energy (VHE) gamma-ray emission of the binary system PSR B1259-63/SS 2883 of a radio pulsar orbiting a massive, luminous Be star in a highly eccentric orbit. The observations around the 2004 periastron…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 F. Aharonian

PSR B1259-63 is a 48 ms pulsar in a highly eccentric 3.4 year orbit around the young massive star LS 2883. During the periastron passage the system displays transient non-thermal unpulsed emission from radio to very high energy gamma rays.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2011-09-02 J. Moldon , S. Johnston , M. Ribo , J. M. Paredes , A. T. Deller

The radio and gamma-ray pulsar PSR J2032+4127 was recently found to be in a decades-long orbit with the Be star MT91 213, with the pulsar moving rapidly towards periastron. This binary shares many similar characteristics with the previously…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-10-26 Wynn C. G. Ho , C. -Y. Ng , Andrew G. Lyne , Ben W. Stappers , Malcolm J. Coe , Jules P. Halpern , Tyrel J. Johnson , Iain A. Steele

We study the physical processes of the PSR B1259-63 system containing a 47 ms pulsar orbiting around a Be star in a highly eccentric orbit. Motivated by the results of a multiwavelength campaign during the January 1994 periastron passage of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 Marco Tavani , Jonathan Arons

The millisecond pulsar PSR B1259-63 and the Be star SS2883 are situated in a highly eccentric binary system, with orbital period ~3.4 years. We report on hard X-ray observations obtained with the INTEGRAL satellite close to the 2004…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 S. E. Shaw , M. Chernyakova , J. Rodriguez , R. Walter , P. Kretschmar , S. Mereghetti

Temporal changes of X-ray to very-high-energy gamma-ray emissions from the pulsar-Be star binary PSR B1259-63/LS 2883 are studied based on 3-D SPH simulations of pulsar wind interaction with Be-disk and wind. We focus on the periastron…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-04 J. Takata , A. T. Okazaki , S. Nagataki , T. Naito , A. Kawachi , S. -H. Lee , M. Mori , K. Hayasaki , M. S. Yamaguchi , S. P. Owocki

PSR B1259-63/SS2883 is a binary system which consists of a 48-ms radio pulsar and a massive star in a highly eccentric orbit with a period of about 3.4 years. Non-pulsed and non-thermal emissions from this binary have been reported in the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2011-11-03 Masaki Mori , Akiko Kawachi , Shigehiro Nagataki , Jumpei Takata

The pulsar/massive star binary system PSR B1259-63 / LS 2883 is one of the best-studied gamma-ray binaries, a class of systems whose bright gamma-ray flaring can provide important insights into high-energy physics. Using the Australian Long…

We report on the discovery of \geq 100 MeV {\gamma} rays from the binary system PSR B1259-63/LS 2883 using the Large Area Telescope (LAT) on board Fermi. The system comprises a radio pulsar in orbit around a Be star. We report on LAT…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2011-06-30 A. A. Abdo , Fermi LAT Collaboration , M. Chernyakova , A. Neronov , E. Grundstrom , the Fermi Pulsar Timing Consortium

We present observations of the gamma-ray binary PSR B1259-63/LS 2883 with the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) at Bands 3 (97 GHz), 6 (233 GHz), and 7 (343 GHz). PSR B1259-63/LS 2883 consists of a pulsar in a highly…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-11-20 Yutaka Fujita , Akiko Kawachi , Atsuo T. Okazaki , Hiroshi Nagai , Norita Kawanaka , Takuya Akahori

We report on broad multi-wavelength observations of the 2010-2011 periastron passage of the gamma-ray loud binary system PSR B1259-63. High resolution interferometric radio observations establish extended radio emission trailing the…

The gamma-ray binary system PSR B1259-63 consists of a 48 ms pulsar orbiting a Be star. The system is particularly interesting because it is the only gamma-ray binary system where the nature of the compact object is known. The non-thermal…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-08-30 B. van Soelen , P. J. Meintjes , A. Odendaal , L. J. Townsend

The PSR B1259--63 system contains a 47 ms radio pulsar in a highly eccentric binary with a Be-star companion. Strongly time variable X-ray emission was reported from this system as the pulsar was near apastron in 1992-early 1993. The…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 J. Greiner , M. Tavani , T. Belloni
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