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We analytically investigate the condition for a particle accelerator to be active in the outer magnetosphere of a rotation-powered pulsar. Within the accelerator (or the gap), magnetic-field-aligned electric field accelerates electrons and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-28 Ren-Bo Wang , Kouichi Hirotani

Inspired by increase of population of $\gamma$-ray emitting pulsars by the $Fermi$ telescope, we perform a population study for $\gamma$-ray emitting canonical pulsars. We use a Monte-Carlo technique to simulate the Galactic population of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-20 J. Takata , Y. Wang , K. S. Cheng

{\it Fermi}-LAT has detected pulsed gamma-ray emissions with high confidences from more than 40 millisecond pulsars (MSPs). Here we study the phase-averaged gamma-ray properties of MSPs by using revised version of a self-consistent outer…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-02-22 Z. J. Jiang , S. B. Chen , X. Li , L. Zhang

We use a simple two-layer outer gap model, whose accelerator consists of a primary region and a screening region, to discuss $\gamma$-ray spectrum of mature pulsars detected by $Fermi$. By solving the Poisson equation with an assumed simple…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-19 Y. Wang , J. Takata , K. S. Cheng

Using the outer gap model, we investigate the emission region for the multi-wavelength light curve from energetic pulsars. We assume that gamma-ray and non-thermal X-ray photons are emitted from a particle acceleration region in the outer…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-28 Shota Kisaka , Yasufumi Kojima

The popular outer gap model of magnetospheric emission from pulsars has been widely applied to explain the properties observed in $\gamma$-rays. However, its quantitative predictions rely on a number of approximations and assumptions that…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-12-05 Daniele Viganò , Diego F. Torres , Kouichi Hirotani , Martín E. Pessah

Radiation of both the outer gaps and the neutron star surface is considered for a Vela-like pulsar near the death line. It is shown that if such a pulsar is close enough to the death line, its optical, UV and X-ray emission has to increase.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-22 Vladimir V. Usov

The $Fermi$-LAT has revealed that rotation powered millisecond pulsars (MSPs) are a major contributor to the Galactic $\gamma$-ray source population. Such pulsars may also be important in modeling the quiescent state of several low mass…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-03 J. Takata , K. S. Cheng , R. E. Taam

We study the $\gamma$-ray emission properties of pulsars by using a new self-consistent outer gap model. The outer gap can exist in pulsars with age over million years old if the effect of magnetic inclination angle as well as the average…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 K. S. Cheng , L. Zhang , P. Leung , Z. J. Jiang

Recent obserbations by Fermi Gamma-Ray Space Telescope of gamma-ray pulsars have revealed further details of the structure of the emission region. We investigate the emission region for the multi-wavelength light curve using outer gap…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2011-11-01 Shota Kisaka , Yasufumi Kojima

We present a model for the gamma-ray emission of pulsars in terms of curvature radiation by highly relativistic particles. It is shown that the injection of power-law primary particles from an outer gap and subsequent cooling by curvature…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. R. Crusius-Waetzel , H. Lesch

In this paper, which is the second in a series of papers, we analyse what parameters can determine the width of the radio pulsar 'death valley' in the $P$-${\dot P}$ diagram. Using exact expression for the maximum potential drop, which can…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-10-05 V. S. Beskin , A. Yu. Istomin

We use the outer gap model to explain the spectrum and the energy dependent light curves of the X-ray and soft gamma-ray radiations of the spin-down powered pulsar PSR B1509-58. In the outer gap model, most pairs inside the gap are created…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-12 Y. Wang , J. Takata , K. S. Cheng

We suggest that some observational features of high-energy radiation from pulsars should be explained in terms of three dimensional geometric models, e.g. the phase-resolved X-ray and $\gamma$-ray spectra and the energy dependent light…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 K. S. Cheng

One of the most important predictions of any gap model for pulsar magnetospheres is the predicted $\gamma$-ray spectra. In the outer gap model, the properties of the synchro-curvature radiation are sensitive to many parameters, whose…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-04-02 Daniele Viganò , Diego F. Torres , Kouichi Hirotani , Martín E. Pessah

In this paper, which is the first in a series of papers devoted to a detailed analysis of the death line of radio pulsars, we consider a possibility of producing secondary particles at a sufficiently long pulsar period P. To this end, we…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-01-11 V. S. Beskin , P. E. Litvinov

Pulsars are highly magnetized rotating neutron stars, emitting in a broad electromagnetic energy range. Reproducing the observed pulsars population refines our understanding of their formation and evolution scenarios as well as their…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-11-27 Mattéo Sautron , Jérôme Pétri , Dipanjan Mitra , Ludmilla Dirson

The outer gap model is used here to explain the spectrum and the energy dependent light curves of the X-ray and soft gamma-ray radiations of the spin-down powered pulsar PSR B1509-58.In the outer gap model, most pairs inside the gap are…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-03-05 Y. Wang , J. Takata , K. S. Cheng

Correlations between gamma-ray and X-ray spectral properties of pulsars are investigated in order to provide observational hints on physics involved in pulsars' high-energy emissions. Using a sample of 43 pulsars detected in both X-ray and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-01-21 Ashwin Aravindaraj , Hsiang-Kuang Chang

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
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