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We demonstrate a method for quantitatively comparing gamma-ray pulsar light curves with magnetosphere beaming models. With the Fermi LAT providing many pulsar discoveries and high quality pulsar light curves for the brighter objects, such…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-03-13 Roger W. Romani , Kyle P. Watters

The pulsar light curves and energy spectra are explored in dissipative pulsar magnetospheres with the Aristotelian electrodynamics (AE), where particle acceleration is fully balanced with radiation reaction. The AE magnetospheres with…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-02-09 Gang Cao , Xiongbang Yang

For polar-cap models based on electromagnetic cascades induced by curvature radiation of beam particles we calculate broad-band high-energy spe ctra of pulsed emission expected for classical ($\sim 10^{12}\G$) and millisecond pulsars ($\sim…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Bronislaw Rudak , Jaroslaw Dyks

In this review paper we explain the following gamma-ray emission features from the millisecond pulsars. (1)Why is the dipolar field of millisecond pulsars so weak but the magnetic pair creation process may still be able to control the size…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-17 K. S. Cheng

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

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

Ultrahot Jupiters are ideal candidates to explore with high-resolution emission spectra. Detailed theoretical studies are necessary to investigate the range of spectra we can expect to see from these objects throughout their orbit, because…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2022-09-20 Hayley Beltz , Emily Rauscher , Eliza M. -R Kempton , Isaac Malsky , Grace Ochs , Mireya Arora , Arjun Savel

Significant gamma-ray pulsations have been detected from ~40 millisecond pulsars (MSPs) using 3 years of sky-survey data from the Fermi LAT and radio timing solutions from across the globe. We have fit the radio and gamma-ray pulse profiles…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-14 T. J. Johnson , A. K. Harding , C. Venter , J. E. Grove

The pulsations of X-ray pulsars carry information about the accretion and magnetic field geometry. Here we present a study and classification of energy resolved pulse profiles of a sample of X-ray pulsars, focusing on high-mass X-ray…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-06-22 Jaime Alonso-Hernandez , Felix Fuerst , Peter Kretschmar , Isabel Caballero , Amy Joyce

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

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

It is of great important to study pulsar beam shapes if we are concerned with emission theories and pulsar birth rate. Both observations and/or the inverse Compton scattering model show that different emission components are emitted from…

Astrophysics · Physics 2017-11-01 R. X. Xu , J. W. Xu , G. J. Qiao

The understanding of pulsar radio emission demands a close look at all regions of the huge parameter space present for pulsar observations. In this review we concentrate on the space given by the range of observed pulse periods, spanning…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. Kramer

Pulsars have been invoked to explain the origin of recently observed high-energy Galactic cosmic-ray positrons. Since the positron propagation distance decreases with energy, the number of pulsars that can contribute to the observed…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-07-18 Ilias Cholis , Tanvi Karwal , Marc Kamionkowski

Pulsars play a crucial astrophysical role as the highly energetic compact radio, X-ray, and gamma-ray sources. Our previous works show that the radio pulsars found as the pulsing gamma sources by the Large Area Telescope (LAT) on the board…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-08-29 I. F. Malov , M. A. Timirkeeva

Some of the most energetic pulsars exhibit rotation-modulated gamma-ray emission in the $0.1$ to $100$ GeV band. The luminosity of this emission is typically $0.1\text{-}10\%$ of the pulsar spin-down power (gamma-ray efficiency), implying…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-03-20 Hayk Hakobyan , Alexander Philippov , Anatoly Spitkovsky

The period and the period derivative of a pulsar are critical magnitudes for defining the properties of the magnetospheric size and plasma dynamics. The pulsar light cylinder, the magnetic field intensity nearby it, and the curvature radius…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-07-27 Daniel Íñiguez-Pascual , Diego F. Torres , Daniele Viganò

Resluts of 3D numerical simulations in the framework of pair starved polar cap model (PSPC) for millisecond pulsars are presented. In the investigated PSPC model electric field structure highly depends on the pulsar inclination which is…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2010-08-09 A. Zajczyk , B. Rudak , J. Dyks

Characterizing the shape and evolution of pulsar radio emission beams is important for understanding the observed emission. The various attempts by earlier workers investigating beam shapes have resulted in widely different conclusions.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 D. Mitra , A. A. Deshpande

The extended $\gamma$-ray halos around pulsars are unique probe of transportation of high-energy electrons (and positrons) in vicinities of such pulsars. Observations of morphologies of several such halos indicate that particles diffuse…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-07-17 YingYing Guo , Qiang Yuan
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