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Over the last decade, observational evidence has mounted that SGRs/AXPs belong to a particular class of pulsars. Furthermore, fast and very magnetic white dwarfs have been observed, and recently two SGRs with low magnetic fields…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2013-07-22 M. Malheiro , J. G. Coelho

We propose a simple explanation for the apparent dearth of radio pulsars associated with young supernova remnants (SNRs). Recent X-ray observations of young remnants have revealed slowly rotating (P ~ 10-s) central pulsars with pulsed…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 E. V. Gotthelf , G. Vasisht

Estimations of magnetic fields of neutron stars, observed as radio and X-ray pulsars, are discussed. It is shown, that theoretical and observational values for different types of radiopulsars are in good correspondence. Magnetic fields of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 G. S. Bisnovatyi-Kogan

X-ray pulsars (XRPs) are accreting strongly magnetised neutron stars (NSs) in binary systems with, as a rule, massive optical companions. Very reach phenomenology and high observed flux put them into the focus of observational and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-04-27 Alexander Mushtukov , Sergey Tsygankov

In the last few years it has been recognized that two apparently distinct classes of peculiar high-energy sources are actually related and can be explained as young neutron stars with magnetic fields as high as 10e14 - 10e15 Gauss. One of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Sandro Mereghetti

Soft Gamma Repeaters and the Anomalous X-ray Pulsars are believed to contain slowly spinning "magnetars". The enormous energy liberated in the 2004 Dece 27 giant flare from SGR 1806-20, together with the likely recurrence time of such…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Simone Dall'Osso , Luigi Stella

There is growing evidence that two classes of high-energy sources, the Soft Gamma Repeaters and the Anomalous X-ray Pulsars contain slowly spinning ``magnetars'', i.e. neutron stars whose emission is powered by the release of energy from…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Luigi Stella , Simone Dall'Osso , GianLuca Israel , Alberto Vecchio

The evolution and genesis of Anomalous X-ray Pulsars and Soft Gamma ray Repeaters are investigated. The new arguments in favor of magnetar model are found. It is shown, that these objects are formed from more massive stars and responsible…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-10-30 F. K. Kasumov , A. O. Allakhverdiev

Thermal surface emissions have now been detected from more than a dozen isolated neutron stars, including radio pulsars, radio-quiet neutron stars and magnetars. These detections can potentially provide important information on the interior…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Dong Lai , W. C. G. Ho

We describe a refined calculation of high energy emission from rotation-powered pulsars based on the Outer Gap model of Cheng, Ho \&~Ruderman (1986a,b). We have improved upon previous efforts to model the spectra from these pulsars (e. g.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-22 J. Chiang , R. W. Romani

Soon after the discovery of radio pulsars in 1967, the pulsars are identified as strongly magnetic (typically $10^{12}$G) rapidly rotating ($\sim 10^{2}-0.1$ Hz) neutron stars. However, the mechanism of particle acceleration in the pulsar…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Tomohide Wada , Shinpei Shibata

Rotating Radio Transients (RRATs) are neutron stars emitting sporadic radio pulses. The unique emission of RRATs has been proposed to resemble those of known pulsar types, such as extreme nulling pulsars or pulsars with giant pulses.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-11-18 S. B. Zhang , X. Yang , J. J. Geng , Y. P. Yang , X. F. Wu

Super-sensitive observations of bright pulsars by the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST) have revealed weak radio emission continuously emerged in the rotation phases between the main pulse and interpulse of an…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-04-10 P. F. Wang , J. L. Han

We address several issues regarding the interpretation of galactic \ggg-ray sources. We consider powerful pulsars in binaries producing X-ray and gamma-ray {\it unpulsed} emission from the shock interaction of relativistic pulsar winds with…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 M. Tavani

There has recently been growing evidence for the existence of neutron stars possessing magnetic fields with strengths that exceed the quantum critical field strength of $4.4 \times 10^{13}$ G, at which the cyclotron energy equals the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Alice K. Harding , Dong Lai

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

The anomalous X-ray pulsars (AXPs) represent a growing class of neutron stars discovered at X-ray energies. While the nature of their multi-wavelength emission mechanism is still under debate, evidence has been recently accumulating in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Samar Safi-Harb , Jennifer West

Magnetars are a kind of pulsars powered mainly by superhigh magnetic fields. They are popular sources with many unsolved issues in themselves, but also linked to various high energy phenomena, such as QPOs, giant flares, fast radio bursts…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-03-31 Zhi-Fu Gao , Hao Shan , Hui Wang

Soft gamma repeaters (SGR) are identified as single neutron stars (NS) inside the Galaxy, or nearby galaxies, with sporadic transient gamma radiation. A total number of discovered SGR, including relative Anomalous X-ray pulsars (AXP), is…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-11-16 G. S. Bisnovatyi-Kogan

PSR J1814-1744 is a 4 s radio pulsar with surface dipole magnetic field strength 5.5*10^13 G, inferred assuming simple magnetic dipole braking. This pulsar's spin parameters are very similar to those of anomalous X-ray pulsars (AXPs),…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 M. J. Pivovaroff , V. M. Kaspi , F. Camilo