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We investigate polarization of high-energy emissions from the Crab pulsar in the frame work of the outer gap accelerator. The recent version of the outer gap, which extends from inside the null charge surface to the light cylinder, is used…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 J. Takata , H. K. Chang , K. S. Cheng

The light curves and spectral properties of more than 200 $\gamma$-ray pulsars have been measured in unsurpassed detail in the eight years since the launch of the hugely successful Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) $\gamma$-ray mission. We…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-02-20 Monica Barnard , Christo Venter , Alice K. Harding

We present a modified outer gap model to study the phase-resolved spectra of the Crab pulsar. A theoretical double peak profile of the light curve containing the whole phase is shown to be consistent with the observed light curve of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-23 J. J. Jia , Anisia P. S. Tang , J. Takata , H. K. Chang , K. S. Cheng

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

Thermal X-ray emission from rotation-powered pulsars is believed to originate from localized "hotspots" on the stellar surface occurring where large-scale currents from the magnetosphere return to heat the atmosphere. Lightcurve modeling…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-11-13 Will Lockhart , Samuel E. Gralla , Feryal Özel , Dimitrios Psaltis

The high-quality Fermi LAT observations of gamma-ray pulsars have opened a new window to understanding the generation mechanisms of high-energy emission from these systems. The high statistics allow for careful modeling of the light curve…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2011-11-03 Megan E. DeCesar , Alice K. Harding , M. Coleman Miller , Ioannis Contopoulos , Constantinos Kalapotharakos , Damien Parent

For a subclass of polar-cap models based on electromagnetic cascades induced by curvature radiation (CR) we calculate broad-band high-energy spectra of pulsed emission expected for classical and millisecond pulsars. The spectra are a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 B. Rudak , J. Dyks

Pulsars emit pulsed emission across the entire electromagnetic spectrum and their light curve phenomenology is strongly dependent on energy. This is also true for the gamma-ray waveband. Continued detections by Fermi Large Area Telescope in…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-11-29 Monica Barnard , Christo Venter , Alice K. Harding , Constantinos Kalapotharakos

The Rotation powered pulsars Crab, Vela and Geminga have double peaked folded light curves (FLC) at $\gamma$-ray energies, that have an approximate reflection symmetry. Here this aspect is studied at soft X-ray energy by analyzing a high…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-05-25 M. Vivekanand

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

We investigate polarization of high-energy emissions from the Crab pulsar in the frame work of the outer gap accelerator, following previous works of Cheng and coworkers. The recent version of the outer gap, which extends from inside the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-31 J. Takata , H. -K. Chang , K. S. Cheng

Recent studies have shown that gamma-ray pulsar light curves are very sensitive to the geometry of the pulsar magnetic field. Pulsar magnetic field geometries, such as the retarded vacuum dipole and force-free magnetospheres have distorted…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2011-11-04 Alice K. Harding , Megan E. DeCesar , M. Coleman Miller , Constantinos Kalapotharakos , Ioannis Contopoulos

We explore the multiwavelength radiation properties of the light curves and energy spectra in the dissipative magnetospheres of pulsars. The dissipative magnetospheres are simulated by the pseudo-spectral method with the combined force-free…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-03-12 Xiongbang Yang , Gang Cao

Spectacular results of pulsar observations in X-ray and gamma-ray domains gave a new boost to theoretical models of pulsar magnetospheric activity. A challenging aspect of these efforts is that lightcurves and broadband energy spectra of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 B. Rudak , J. Dyks , T. Bulik

We review our high-time-resolution radio observations of the Crab pulsar and compare our data to a variety of models for the emission physics. The Main Pulse and the Low-Frequency Interpulse come from regions somewhere in the high-altitude…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-06-22 J. A. Eilek , T. H. Hankins

A two-dimensional electrodynamical model is used to study particle acceleration in the outer magnetosphere of a pulsar. The charge depletion from the Goldreich-Julian charge density causes a large electric field along the magnetic field…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 J. Takata , S. Shibata , K. Hirotani , H. -K. Chang

Pulsed emission from gamma-ray pulsars originates inside the magnetosphere, from radiation by charged particles accelerated near the magnetic poles or in the outer gaps. In polar cap models, the high energy spectrum is cut off by magnetic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Alice K. Harding

We suggest that some observational features of high-energy radiation from pulsars should be explained in terms of three dimensional geometric models, e.g. the phase-resolved X-ray and $\gamma$-ray spectra and the energy dependent light…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 K. S. Cheng

Accretion powered pulsars exhibit a variety of lightcurves. In this paper we propose to classify the observed lightcurves as single or double pulsed.We analyze the lightcurves of 86 accretion powered pulsars and assign them to these…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 T. Bulik , D. Gondek-Rosi{ń}ska , A. Santangelo , T. Mihara , M. Finger , M. Cemeljic

We discuss non-thermal emission mechanism of the Crab-like pulsars with both a two-dimensional electrodynamical study and a three-dimensional model. We investigate the emission process in the outer gap accelerator. In the two-dimensional…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 J. Takata , H. -K. Chang