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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

We have conducted a radio pulsar survey of 56 unidentified gamma-ray sources from the 3rd EGRET catalog which are at intermediate Galactic latitudes (5 deg. < |b| < 73 deg.). For each source, four interleaved 35-minute pointings were made…

The identification of celestial gamma-ray sources with astronomical objects or object classes has remained the initial and most fundamental key for understanding their physical nature. The observational characteristic of a gamma-ray emitter…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Olaf Reimer

We present a statistical analysis of the X-ray luminosity of rotation powered pulsars and their surrounding nebulae using the sample of Kargaltsev & Pavlov (2008) and we complement this with an analysis of the gamma-ray-emission of Fermi…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-20 Jacco Vink , Aya Bamba , Ryo Yamazaki

With the large sample of young gamma-ray pulsars discovered by the Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT), population synthesis has become a powerful tool for comparing their collective properties with model predictions. We synthesised a pulsar…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-05 M. Pierbattista , I. A. Grenier , A. K. Harding , P. L. Gonthier

Gamma-ray observations have shown pulsars to be efficient converters of rotational energy into GeV photons and it is of wide-ranging interest to determine their contribution to the gamma-ray background. We arrive at flux predictions from…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-01-26 Ryan M. O'Leary , Matthew D. Kistler , Matthew Kerr , Jason Dexter

The EGRET catalogue of unidentified X-ray sources has more objects along the galactic disk than at high galactic latitude, where identifications are comparatively easier. On the other hand, the Egret/GRO mission has already identified…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 P. A. Caraveo , G. F. Bignami

The 3rd EGRET Catalog of High-energy Gamma-ray Sources contains 170 unidentified sources, and there is great interest in the nature of these sources. One means of determining source class is the study of flux variability on time scales of…

Pulsars discovered since the end of the EGRET mission coincident with unidentified high-energy gamma-ray sources are prime targets for AGILE. Both general surveys and targeted observations have been successful in finding energetic young…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Mallory S. E. Roberts

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

The origin of the diffuse extragalactic, high-energy gamma-ray background (EGRB) filling the Universe remains unknown. The spectrum of this extragalactic radiation, as measured by the EGRET on-board CGRO, is well-fit by a power law across…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Caleb A. Scharf , Reshmi Mukherjee

Context. A considerable fraction of the gamma-ray sources discovered with the Energetic Gamma-Ray Experiment Telescope (EGRET) remain unidentified. The EGRET sources that have been properly identified are either pulsars or variable sources…

Although the majority of gamma-ray sources still remain unidentified, we have various kinds of information to characterize the observational properties of unidentified EGRET sources. Despite astronomical properties like locations of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-01-27 Olaf Reimer

Population studies of unidentified EGRET sources suggest that there exist at least three different populations of galactic gamma-ray sources. One of these populations is formed by young objects distributed along the galactic plane with a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 V. Bosch-Ramon , G. E. Romero , J. M. Paredes

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

Population studies of EGRET gamma-ray sources indicate that there is a distinctive population of bright sources at low galactic latitudes. The sources have a distribution consistent with that of young galactic objects, with a concentration…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Valenti Bosch-Ramon , Gustavo E. Romero , Josep M. Paredes

The large majority of EGRET point sources remain without an identified low-energy counterpart, and a large fraction of these sources are most likely extragalactic. Whatever the nature of the extragalactic EGRET unidentified sources, faint…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-11-11 V. Pavlidou , J. M. Siegal-Gaskins , B. D. Fields , A. V. Olinto , C. Brown

In a recent paper, Romero et al. (1999) have presented the results of a positional correlation analysis of the low-latitude unidentified gamma-ray sources in the Third EGRET catalog with complete lists of galactic objects like supernova…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Gustavo E. Romero , Diego F. Torres , P. Benaglia , J. A. Combi , B. Punsly

The advent of the next generation of gamma-ray experiments, led by GLAST, AGILE, INTEGRAL and a host of atmospheric \v{C}erenkov telescopes coming on line in the next few years, will enable ground-breaking discoveries relating to the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Matthew G. Baring

Part I describes the analysis of periodic and transient signals in EGRET data. A method to search for the transient flux from gamma-ray bursts independent of triggers from other gamma-ray instruments is developed. Several known gamma-ray…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 B. B. Jones