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The wealth of high-energy (E > 50 MeV) and very-high-energy (E > 100 GeV) data accumulated over the past few years have provided unprecedented opportunities to probe pulsar emission models. The Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) has now…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-02-03 Christo Venter

Chromospherically Active Binaries (CAB) catalogue have been revised and updated. With 203 new identifications, the number of CAB stars is increased to 409. Catalogue is available in electronic format where each system has various number of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Z. Eker , N. Filiz Ak , S. Bilir , D. Dogru , M. Tuysuz , E. Soydugan , H. Bakis , B. Ugras , F. Soydugan , A. Erdem , O. Demircan

Transient radio phenomena and pulsars are one of six LOFAR Key Science Projects (KSPs). As part of the Transients KSP, the Pulsar Working Group (PWG) has been developing the LOFAR Pulsar Data Pipelines to both study known pulsars as well as…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-17 A. Alexov , J. W. T. Hessels , J. D. Mol , B. Stappers , J. van Leeuwen

The general properties of the non-thermal non-pulsed X-ray emission of rotation powered pulsars are investigated in the context of a pulsar wind nebula model. An examination of the observed X-ray emission from a sample of 23 pulsars from…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 K. S. Cheng , Ronald E. Taam , W. Wang

Forty six gamma-ray pulsars were reported in the First Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) Catalog of Gamma-ray Pulsars. Over forty more have been seen since then. A simple but effective figure-of-merit for gamma-detectability is…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-14 X. Hou , D. Dumora , M. Lemoine-Goumard , M. -H. Grondin , D. A. Smith

A new model for the high-energy emission from pulsars is developed by considering charged particle motion in the fields of a spinning, highly magnetised and conducting sphere in vacuum. A generally applicable approximation to the particle…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 M. G. Higgins , R. N. Henriksen

We perform a combined analysis of the recent AMS-02 data on electrons, positrons, electrons plus positrons and positron fraction, in a self-consistent framework where we realize a theoretical modeling of all the astrophysical components…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-04-08 M. Di Mauro , F. Donato , N. Fornengo , R. Lineros , A. Vittino

We have developed a specialized computational instrument for fitting models of pulsating white dwarfs to observations made with the Whole Earth Telescope. This metacomputer makes use of inexpensive PC hardware and free software, including a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2018-03-14 T. S. Metcalfe , R. E. Nather

It is difficult to discover pulsars via their gamma-ray emission because current instruments typically detect fewer than one photon per million rotations. This creates a significant computing challenge for isolated pulsars, where the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-10-23 L. Nieder , B. Allen , C. J. Clark , H. J. Pletsch

The energy source powering the X-ray emission from anomalous X-ray pulsars (AXPs) and soft gamma-ray repeaters (SGRs) is still uncertain. In one scenario, the presence of an ultramagnetized neutron star, or ``magnetar'', with B on the order…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 Rosalba Perna , Jeremy Heyl , Lars Hernquist , Adrienne Juett , Deepto Chakrabarty

We report the discovery of 19 new pulsars identified from archival observations of the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST) within Galactic latitudes $|b|<5\deg$ and declinations ${\rm Decl.}<-5\deg$. The dataset was…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-01-06 Shi-Jie Gao , Yi-Xuan Shao , Xiang-Dong Li

The Neutron Star Interior Composition Explorer (NICER) presents an exciting new capability for exploring the modulation properties of X-ray emitting neutron stars, including large area, low background, extremely precise absolute event time…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-08-22 P. S. Ray , Z. Arzoumanian , K. C. Gendreau

The Anomalous X-ray Pulsars (AXPs) are a small class of pulsars with spin periods in the 6-12 s range, very soft X-ray spectra, secular spin down on time scales of ~10^3-10^5 years, and lack of bright optical counterparts. Two, possibly…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 S. Mereghetti , L. Chiarlone , G. L. Israel , L. Stella

Rotation-powered pulsars are excellent laboratories for study of particle acceleration as well as fundamental physics of strong gravity, strong magnetic fields, high densities and relativity. I will review the outstanding questions in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-23 Alice K. Harding

We employed the Fast Folding Algorithm (FFA) on L-Band Globular Cluster (GC) observations taken with Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST) to search for new pulsars, especially those with a long rotational period. We…

Recent work has made it clear that the ``standard model'' of pulsar radio emission cannot be the full answer. Some fundamental assumptions about the magnetic field and plasma flow in the radio-loud region have been called into question by…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 J. A. Eilek , T. H. Hankins , A. Jessner

We present SpiderCat, a multiwavelength catalog of all publicly known compact binary millisecond pulsars (MSPs) in the Galactic field. These systems, colloquially known as "spiders," consist of neutron stars in tight orbits with low-mass…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-12-12 Karri I. I. Koljonen , Manuel Linares

The cosmic-ray flux of positrons is measured with high precision by the space-borne particle spectrometer AMS-02. The hypothesis that pulsars and their nebulae can significantly contribute to the excess of the AMS-02 positron flux has been…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-02-17 Luca Orusa , Silvia Manconi , Fiorenza Donato , Mattia Di Mauro

We present the timing parameters of nine pulsars discovered in a survey of intermediate Galactic latitudes at 1400 MHz with the Parkes radio telescope. Eight of these pulsars possess small pulse periods and period derivatives thought to be…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 R. T. Edwards , M. Bailes

We present the discovery of 37 pulsars from $\sim$ 20 years old archival data of the Parkes Multibeam Pulsar Survey using a new FFT-based search pipeline optimised for discovering narrow-duty cycle pulsars. When developing our pulsar search…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-03-01 R. Sengar , M. Bailes , V. Balakrishnan , M. C. i Bernadich , M. Burgay , E. D. Barr , C. M. L. Flynn , R. Shannon , S. Stevenson , J. Wongphechauxsorn