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Results of a simulation of synchrotron-self Compton (SSC) emission from a rotation-powered pulsar are presented. The radiating particles are assumed to be both accelerated primary electrons and a spectrum of electron-positron pairs produced…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-09-30 Alice K. Harding , Constantinos Kalapotharakos

One fundamental question about pulsars concerns the mechanism of their pulsed electromagnetic emission. Measuring the high-end region of a pulsar's spectrum would shed light on this question. By developing a new electronic trigger, we…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-04-08 The MAGIC Collaboration , E. Aliu

Millisecond pulsars (MSPs) are a growing class of gamma-ray emitters. Pulsed gamma-ray signals have been detected from more than 40 MSPs with the Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT). The wider radio beams and more compact magnetospheres of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-06-24 T. J. Johnson , C. Venter , A. K. Harding , L. Guillemot , D. A. Smith , M. Kramer , O. Celik , P. R. den Hartog , E. C. Ferrara , X. Hou , J. Lande , P. S. Ray

Time-dependent cascades of electron-positron pairs are thought to be the main source of plasma in pulsar magnetospheres and a primary ingredient to explain the nature of pulsar radio emission, a longstanding open problem in high-energy…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-05-18 Fábio Cruz , Thomas Grismayer , Simon Iteanu , Paolo Tortone , Luis O. Silva

The equatorial current sheets outside the light cylinder(LC) are thought as the promising site of the high energy emission based on the results of the recent numerical simulations. We explore the pulsar light curves and energy spectra by…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-03-17 Xiongbang Yang , Gang Cao

A two-dimensional electrodynamic model is used to study particle acceleration and non-thermal emission mechanisms in the pulsar magnetospheres. We solve distribution of the accelerating electric field with the emission process and the…

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

The multi-wavelength pulsed emission from young pulsars and millisecond pulsars can be well modeled with the single-pole 3-dimension annular gap and core gap model. To distinguish our single magnetic pole model from two-pole models (e.g.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-11 YuanJie Du , GuoJun Qiao

We discuss growing evidence that pulsar high energy is emission is generated via Inverse Compton mechanism. We reproduce the broadband spectrum of Crab pulsar, from UV to very high energy gamma-rays - nearly ten decades in energy, within…

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

Most current pulsar emission models assume photon production and emission within the magnetosphere. Low frequency radiation is preferentially produced in the vicinity of the polar caps whereas the high-energy tail is shifted to regions…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-03-21 Jérôme Pétri

Despite the diversity and energy dependence of $\gamma$-ray pulse morphologies in Crab, Vela and Dragonfly, the phaseograms of these three canonical young pulsars can be organised within a single four-beam geometric template. Using…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-05-06 Paul K. H. Yeung , Takayuki Saito

A new model for the high-energy emission from pulsars is developed by considering charged particle motion in the fields of a spinning, highly magnetised and conducting sphere in vacuum. A generally applicable approximation to the particle…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 M. G. Higgins , R. N. Henriksen

Air-Cherenkov telescopes have detected pulsations at energies above 50 GeV from a growing number of Fermi pulsars. These include the Crab, Vela, PSR B1706-44 and Geminga, with the first two having pulsed detections above 1 TeV. In some…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-01-05 Alice K. Harding , Christo Venter , Constantinos Kalapotharakos

My thesis deals with a fundamental question of high energy gamma-ray astronomy. Namely, I studied the cut-off shape of the Crab pulsar spectrum to distinguish between the leading scenarios for the pulsar models. Pulsars are celestial…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2011-05-18 Takayuki Saito

We investigate, in terms of production from pulsars and their nebulae, the cosmic ray positron and electron fluxes above $\sim10$ GeV, observed by the AMS-02 experiment up to 1 TeV. We concentrate on the Vela-X case. Starting from the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-08-10 S. Della Torre , M. Gervasi , P. G. Rancoita , D. Rozza , A. Treves

Guillemot et al. recently reported the discovery of $\gamma$-ray pulsations from the 22.7ms pulsar (pulsar A) in the famous double pulsar system J0737-3039A/B. The $\gamma$-ray light curve (LC) of pulsar A has two peaks separated by…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-11-05 A. S. Seyffert , C. Venter , A. K. Harding , T. J. Johnson

We study sky maps and light curves of gamma-ray emission from neutron stars in compact binaries, and in isolation. We briefly review some gamma-ray emission models, and reproduce sky maps from a standard isolated pulsar in the Separatrix…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-02-18 Néstor Ortiz , Federico Carrasco , Stephen R. Green , Luis Lehner , Steven L. Liebling , John Ryan Westernacher-Schneider

There are now a half dozen young pulsars detected in high energy photons by the Compton GRO, showing a variety of emission efficiencies and pulse profiles. We present here a calculation of the pattern of high energy emission on the sky in a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-22 Roger W. Romani , I. -A. Yadigaroglu

The observation of peta-electronvolt (PeV) $\gamma$-ray photons from the Crab Nebula by LHAASO has revitalised the possibility of a secondary population of hadrons producing the highest energy emission through neutral pion decay. Despite…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-06-11 Samuel T. Spencer , Alison M. W. Mitchell , Brian Reville

The observed spectra of 9 pulsars for which multiwavelength data are available from radio to $X$- or $\gamma$-ray bands (Crab, Vela, Geminga, B0656+14, B1055-52, B1509-58, B1706-44, B1929+10, and B1951+32) are compared with the spectrum of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2009-08-11 H. Ardavan , A. Ardavan , J. Singleton , J. Fasel , W. Junor , J. Middleditch , M. R. Perez , A. Schmidt , P. Sengupta , P. Volegov

We develop kinetic plasma models of pulsar magnetospheres with magnetic-field-line-dependent plasma injection that reveal the importance of various magnetosphere regions in regulating the gamma-ray emission. We set different particle…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-07-28 Constantinos Kalapotharakos , Zorawar Wadiasingh , Alice K. Harding , Demosthenes Kazanas