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Middle-aged, cooling neutron stars are observed both as relatively rapidly spinning radio pulsars and as more slowly spinning, strongly magnetized isolated neutron stars (INSs), which stand out by their thermal X-ray spectra. The difference…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-03 J. S. Speagle , D. L. Kaplan , M. H. van Kerkwijk

The existence of radio pulsars having inferred magnetic fields in the magnetar regime suggests that possible transition objects could be found in the radio pulsar population. The discovery of such an object would contribute greatly to our…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 M. E. Gonzalez , V. M. Kaspi , F. Camilo , B. M. Gaensler , M. J. Pivovaroff

One of the primary goals of Neutron Star Interior Composition Explorer (NICER)-like X-ray missions is to impose stringent constraints on the neutron star equation of state by precisely measuring their masses and radii. NICER has recently…

We detected X-ray emission from PSR B1800-21 and its synchrotron nebula with the Chandra X-ray Observatory. The pulsar's observed flux is (1.4+/-0.2) 10^{-14} ergs cm^{-2} s^{-1} in the 1-6 keV band. The spectrum can be described by a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 O. Kargaltsev , G. G. Pavlov , G. P. Garmire

We constrain the X-ray properties of the nearby $(360\,{\rm pc})$, old ($5\,{\rm Myr}$) pulsar B1133+16 with $\sim 100\,{\rm ks}$ effective exposure time by {\it XMM-Newton}. The observed pulsar flux in the 0.2-3 keV energy range is $\sim…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-02-08 Andrzej Szary , Janusz Gil , Bing Zhang , Frank Haberl , George I. Melikidze , Ulrich Geppert , Dipanjan Mitra , Ren-Xin Xu

I present an analysis of the deepest X-ray exposure of a radio millisecond pulsar (MSP) to date, an X-ray Multi Mirror-Newton European Photon Imaging Camera spectroscopic and timing observation of the nearest known MSP, PSR J0437--4715. The…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-12 Slavko Bogdanov

We report on a timing and spectral analysis of the young, high magnetic field rotation-powered pulsar (RPP) B1509-58 using Chandra continuous-clocking mode observation. The pulsar's X-ray light curve can be fit by the two Gaussian…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-04-12 Chin-Ping Hu , C. -Y. Ng , J. Takata , R. M. Shannon , S. Johnston

Using deep Chandra observations of the globular cluster M28, we study the quiescent X-ray emission of a neutron star in a low-mass X-ray binary in order to constrain the chemical composition of the neutron star atmosphere and the equation…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-04 Mathieu Servillat , C. O. Heinke , W. C. G. Ho , J. E. Grindlay , J. Hong , M. van den Berg , S. Bogdanov

We present a multi-wavelength analysis of the nearby millisecond pulsar PSR J0437--4715, combining Hubble Space Telescope (HST) far-ultraviolet, ROSAT soft X-ray, and XMM-Newton X-ray data, to model its broadband emission and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-05-19 Liqiang Qi , Juan Zhang , Weiwei Xu , Shijie Zheng , Mingyu Ge , Ang Li , Shuang-Nan Zhang , Hua Feng , Fangjun Lu

We report results from a multi-mission observational campaign of the transient X-ray pulsar 2S~1417$-$624 during its 2025 outburst, using data from NICER, IXPE, and NuSTAR. Phase-averaged and phase-resolved spectroscopy with NICER and…

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 recently constructed theory of radio wave propagation in the pulsar magnetosphere outlines the general aspects of the radio light curve and polarization formation. It allows us to describe general properties of mean profiles, such as…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-09-03 A. K. Galishnikova , A. A. Philippov , V. S. Beskin

The old pulsar PSR B0943+10 (P=1.1 s, characteristic age tau=5 Myr) is the best example of mode-switching radio pulsar. Its radio emission alternates between a highly organized state with regular drifting subpulses (B mode) and a chaotic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-16 Sandro Mereghetti , Andrea Tiengo , Paolo Esposito , Roberto Turolla

We report Bayesian inference of the mass, radius and hot X-ray emitting region properties - using data from the Neutron Star Interior Composition ExploreR (NICER) - for the brightest rotation-powered millisecond X-ray pulsar PSR…

We report on Bayesian parameter estimation of the mass and equatorial radius of the millisecond pulsar PSR J0030$+$0451, conditional on pulse-profile modeling of Neutron Star Interior Composition Explorer (NICER) X-ray spectral-timing event…

We present the results of the broad-band photometry of the nearby middle-aged radio pulsar PSR B0656+14 and its neighborhood obtained with the 6-meter telescope of the SAO RAS and with the Hubble Space Telescope. The broad-band spectral…

Pulsars emit low-frequency radio waves through to high-energy gamma-rays that are generated anywhere from the surface out to the edges of the magnetosphere. Detecting correlated mode changes in the multi-wavelength emission is therefore key…

Extended very-high-energy $\gamma$-ray emission from middle-aged pulsars as revealed recently by several groundbased $\gamma$-ray experiments has strong implication on the transport of high-energy particles in the interstellar medium…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-02-02 Shu Niu , Qiang Yuan , Shui-Nai Zhang , Lei Lei , Li Ji , Yi-Zhong Fan

We report on the energy-resolved timing and phase-resolved spectral analysis of X-ray emission from PSR J0659+1414 observed with XMM-Newton and NuSTAR. We find that the new data rule out the previously suggested model of the phase-dependent…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-12-26 Prakash Arumugasamy , Oleg Kargaltsev , Bettina Posselt , George G. Pavlov , Jeremy Hare

The velocity and density distribution of $e^\pm$ in the pulsar wind are crucial distinction among magnetosphere models, and contains key parameters determining the high energy emission of pulsar binaries. In this work, a direct method is…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-10-11 Shu-Xu Yi , K. S. Cheng