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We present radio intensity and polarisation profiles of 28 $\gamma$-ray-detected pulsars with the aim of putting constraints on their viewing geometries using data from the Parkes telescope. Constraints are formed both from the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-23 S. C. Rookyard , P. Weltevrede , S. Johnston

The radiation of a pulsar wind is computed assuming that at roughly 10 to 100 light cylinder radii from the star, magnetic energy is dissipated into particle energy. The synchrotron emission of heated particles appears periodic, with, in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 J. G. Kirk , O. Skjaeraasen , Y. A. Gallant

The pulsar emission mechanism in the gamma-ray energy band is poorly understood. Currently, there are several models under discussion in the pulsar community. These models can be constrained by studying the collective properties of a sample…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-08-28 A. U. Abeysekara , J. T. Linnemann

The seven known gamma-ray pulsars represent a very small fraction of the more than 1000 presently known radio pulsars, yet they can give us valuable information about pulsar particle acceleration and energetics. Although the theory of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Alice K. Harding

I survey recent successes in the application of relativistic MHD and force-free electrodynamics to the modeling of the pulsars' rotational energy loss mechanism as well as to the structure and emission characteristics of Pulsar Wind…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-08-09 Jonathan Arons

We explore the emission properties of a dissipative pulsar magnetosphere model introduced by Kalapotharakos et al. (2014), comparing its high energy light curves and spectra, due to curvature radiation, with data collected by the Fermi LAT.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-20 Gabriele Brambilla , Constantinos Kalapotharakos , Alice K. Harding , Demosthenes Kazanas

High-energy gamma rays are a valuable tool for studying particle acceleration and radiation in the magnetospheres of energetic pulsars. The seven or more pulsars seen by instruments on the Compton Gamma Ray Observatory (CGRO) show that: the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 David J. Thompson

Several important properties of rotation-powered millisecond pulsars (MSPs), such as their mass-radius ratio, equation of state and magnetic field topology, can be inferred from precise observations and modelling of their X-ray light…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-02-08 Federico Carrasco , Joaquin Pelle , Oscar Reula , Daniele Viganò , Carlos Palenzuela

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

We present an analytical treatment of the pulsar radio emission height as a function of phase based on a set of simplifying assumptions. Assuming a dipole field geometry, the emission height can be expressed as a function of phase and the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-09-11 H. Tong , H. G. Wang

We have developed a method to compute the possible distribution of radio emission regions in a typical pulsar magnetosphere, taking into account the viewing geometry and rotational effects of the neutron star. Our method can estimate the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-18 R. M. C. Thomas , Y. Gupta , R. T. Gangadhara

We explore particle accelerator electrodynamics in the magnetosphere of a rapidly rotating neutron star (NS). We address the importance of a self-consistent treatment of pair production, solving the Poisson equation describing the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-09-09 Kouichi Hirotani

We model the thermal X-ray profiles of Geminga, Vela and PSR 0656+14, which have also been detected as gamma-ray pulsars, to constrain the phase space of obliquity and observer angles required to reproduce the observed X-ray pulsed…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Alice K. Harding , Alexander G. Muslimov

High-energy gamma rays of interstellar origin are produced by the interaction of cosmic-ray (CR) particles with the diffuse gas and radiation fields in the Galaxy. The main features of this emission are well understood and are reproduced by…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-09-06 Troy A. Porter , Gudlaugur Johannesson , Igor V. Moskalenko

The study of physical processes associated with particle acceleration in the open field line region above the polar cap (PC) of an isolated neutron star (NS) plays a fundamental role in our understanding and interpretation of high-energy…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Alice K. Harding , Alexander G. Muslimov

Partially coherent electromagnetic sources with cylindrical symmetry and infinite extent radiating outwards are introduced. Their $3\times3$ cross-spectral density matrix is given through expansions of the field components in terms of basis…

Current models of pulsar gamma-ray emission use the magnetic field of a rotating dipole in vacuum as a first approximation to the shape of plasma-filled pulsar magnetosphere. In this paper we revisit the question of gamma-ray light-curve…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-11-20 Xue-Ning Bai , Anatoly Spitkovsky

Pulsar winds have been shown to be preferred sites of particle acceleration and high-energy radiation. Numerous studies have been conducted to better characterize the general structure of such relativistic plasmas in isolated systems.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-01-06 Valentina Richard-Romei , Benoît Cerutti

A detailed study of the refraction of an ordinary wave in the magnetosphere of radio pulsars was carried out. For this, a consistent theory of the generation of secondary particles was constructed, which essentially takes into account the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-09-07 V. S. Beskin , A. Yu. Istomin , A. G. Mikhaylenko

There is active interest in the extent to which unresolved gamma-ray pulsars contribute to the galactic diffuse emission, and whether unresolved gamma-ray pulsars could be responsible for the excess of diffuse galactic emission above 1 GeV…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Martin Pohl , Gottfried Kanbach , Stan D. Hunter , Brian B. Jones