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A wide range of events observed at the giant pulses (high energy density, observed localization of giant pulses (GPs) relative to the average pulse, fine structure of GPs with duration up to some nanoseconds, observed circular polarization…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-07-23 V. M. Kontorovich

We investigate the electrostatic acceleration of electrons and positrons in the vicinity of the event horizon, applying the pulsar outer-gap model to black hole magnetospheres. During a low accretion phase, the radiatively inefficient…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-12-21 Kouichi Hirotani , Hung-Yi Pu , Lupin Chun-Che Lin , Hsiang-Kuang Chang , Makoto Inoue , Albert K. H Kong , Satoki Matsushita , Pak-Hin T. Tam

Since the era of the Fermi/LAT and atmospheric Cerenkov telescopes, pulsars are known to emit high and very high-energy photons, in the MeV-GeV range and sometimes up to TeV. To date, it is still unclear where and how these photons are…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-02-13 Jérôme Pétri

Gamma-ray binaries are orbital modulated gamma-ray sources in the Galaxy detected both at GeV and TeV energies. The high-energy radiation may come from the interaction of energetic electrons injected by a young pulsar and photons from the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2009-12-21 B. Cerutti , G. Dubus , G. Henri

Gamma-rays from pulsars can be efficiently attenuated in their magnetospheres via the mechanism of single-photon pair production and also the exotic QED process of photon splitting, which become prolific in fields approaching the quantum…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 Matthew G. Baring , Alice K. Harding , Peter L. Gonthier

The motion of electrons and positrons in the vacuum magnetosphere of a neutron star with a surface magnetic field of B~10^12 G is considered. Particles created in the magnetosphere or falling into it from outside are virtually…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2010-12-17 Ya. N. Istomin , D. N. Sob'yanin

We consider the voltage structure in the open-field circuit and outer magnetosphere of a magnetar. The standard polar-cap model for radio pulsars is modified significantly when the polar magnetic field exceeds 1.8x10^{14} G. Pairs are…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Christopher Thompson

A self-consistent electrodynamics of a particle accelerator in a rotating neutron-star magnetosphere is investigated on the two-dimensional poloidal plane. Solving the Poisson equation for the electrostatic potential together with the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 K. Hirotani

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

Current models of gamma-ray lightcurves in pulsars suffer from large uncertainties on the precise location of particle acceleration and radiation. Here, we present an attempt to alleviate these difficulties by solving for the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-02-17 Benoît Cerutti , Alexander A. Philippov , Anatoly Spitkovsky

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

The ability of the neutron star surface to supply all or only part of the charges filling the pulsar magnetosphere is crucial for the physics prevailing within it, with direct consequences for the possible formation of pair creation…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 A. Jessner , H. Lesch , T. Kunzl

First I emphasize the magnetospheric loop current system induced by the wind activity. Next, I address the formation of the field-aligned electric field. An interesting aspect is the reaction of the inner magnetosphere to an induced…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Shinpei Shibata

In some low-luminosity accreting supermassive black hole systems, the supply of plasma in the funnel region can be a problem. It is believed that a local region with unscreened electric field can exist in the black hole magnetosphere,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-08-29 Alexander Y. Chen , Yajie Yuan , Huan Yang

Pulsed high energy radiation from pulsars is not yet completely understood. In this paper, we use the 3D self-consistent annular gap model to study light curves for both young and millisecond pulsars observed by the Fermi Gamma-ray Space…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2010-08-23 Yuan-Jie Du , G. J. Qiao , J. L. Han , K. J. Lee , R. X. Xu

We extend the two-dimensional two-layer outer gap model to a three-dimensional geometry and use it to study the high-energy emission of the Vela pulsar. In this model, the outer gap is divided into two parts, i.e. the main acceleration…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-27 Y. Wang , J. Takata , K. S. Cheng

We discuss a possible scenario for radiation mechanism of pulsed GeV gamma-rays from magnetars. The magnetars have shown frequent X-ray bursts, which would be triggered by crust fractures and could release the energy of order of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-15 J. Takata , Y. Wang , E. M. H. Wu , K. S. Cheng

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

Some massive binaries should contain energetic pulsars which inject relativistic leptons from their inner magnetospheres and/or pulsar wind regions. If the binary system is compact enough, then these leptons can initiate inverse Compton…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Sierpowska , W. Bednarek

A number of Anomalous X-ray Pulsars (AXPs) have recently been detected in the optical/IR wavelengths. We use their inferred brightness to place general constraints on any model for this emission within the magnetar framework. We find that…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Feryal Ozel