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Gamma-ray emission from pulsars is thought to arise from accelerating regions in pulsar's outer magnetosphere. The shape of the light curves is thus sensitive to the details of the magnetic geometry of the magnetosphere. In this work, we…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2009-11-03 Xue-Ning Bai , Anatoly Spitkovsky

Gamma-ray photons from young pulsars allow the deepest insight into the properties and interactions of high-energy particles with magnetic and photon fields in a pulsar magnetosphere. Measurements with the Compton Gamma-Ray Observatory have…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-09-29 Gottfried Kanbach

Pulsars emit pulsed emission across the entire electromagnetic spectrum and their light curve phenomenology is strongly dependent on energy. This is also true for the gamma-ray waveband. Continued detections by Fermi Large Area Telescope in…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-11-29 Monica Barnard , Christo Venter , Alice K. Harding , Constantinos Kalapotharakos

Recent observations have detected a number of young pulsars from the power peak in the gamma-ray band to the incoherent photon peak in the optical/IR. We have made progress on the multiwavelength phenomenology of pulsar emission and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Roger W. Romani

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

The spectral characteristics of the pulsed gamma-ray emission from outer-magnetospheric particle accelerators are investigated. Either positrons or electrons are accelerated outwards by the magnetic-field-aligned electric field to emit…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-28 Kouichi Hirotani

We have simulated a population of young spin-powered pulsars and computed the beaming pattern and lightcurves for the three main geometrical models: polar cap emission, two-pole caustic ("slot gap") emission and outer magnetosphere…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 Kyle P. Watters , Roger W. Romani , Patrick Weltevrede , Simon Johnston

(Abridged) Gamma-ray emission from pulsars has long been modeled using a vacuum dipole field. This approximation ignores changes in the field structure caused by the magnetospheric plasma and strong plasma currents. We present the first…

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

We investigate the shapes of \gamma-ray pulsar light curves using 3D pulsar magnetosphere models of finite conductivity. These models, covering the entire spectrum of solutions between vacuum and force-free magnetospheres, for the first…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-05 Constantinos Kalapotharakos , Alice K. Harding , Demosthenes Kazanas , Ioannis Contopoulos

I present a review of the main phenomenological properties at high energies related to massive gamma-ray binaries and I discuss some aspects of pulsar models for these objects.

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-14 Gustavo E. Romero

A synthesis of the present knowledge on gamma-ray emission from the magnetosphere of a rapidly rotating neutron star is presented, focusing on the electrodynamics of particle accelerators. The combined curvature, synchrotron, and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Kouichi Hirotani

We compute the patterns of $\gamma$-ray emission due to curvature radiation in dissipative pulsar magnetospheres. Our ultimate goal is to construct macrophysical models that are able to reproduce the observed $\gamma$-ray light-curve…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-17 Constantinos Kalapotharakos , Alice K. Harding , Demosthenes Kazanas

The Fermi Gamma-Ray Space Telescope has discovered many gamma-ray pulsars, both as radio-loud objects and radio-quiet or radio-weak pulsars that have been identified through blind period searches. The latter presumably have gamma-ray beams…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2010-02-02 Marco Pierbattista , Isabelle Grenier , Alice Harding , Peter Gonthier

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

The high-quality Fermi LAT observations of gamma-ray pulsars have opened a new window to understanding the generation mechanisms of high-energy emission from these systems. The high statistics allow for careful modeling of the light curve…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2011-11-03 Megan E. DeCesar , Alice K. Harding , M. Coleman Miller , Ioannis Contopoulos , Constantinos Kalapotharakos , Damien Parent

Current models of gamma-ray lightcurves in pulsars suffer from large uncertainties on the precise location of particle acceleration and radiation. Here, we present an attempt to alleviate these difficulties by solving for the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-02-17 Benoît Cerutti , Alexander A. Philippov , Anatoly Spitkovsky

We review the recent advances in the pulsar high-energy $\gamma$-ray observation and the electrodynamics of the pulsar magnetospheres from the early vacuum model to the recent plasma-filled models by the numerical simulations. The numerical…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-03-12 Gang Cao , Xiongbang Yang , Li Zhang

We perform global particle-in-cell simulations of pulsar magnetospheres including pair production, ion extraction from the surface, frame dragging corrections, and high energy photon emission and propagation. In the case of oblique…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-03-28 Alexander A. Philippov , Anatoly Spitkovsky

We develop kinetic plasma models of pulsar magnetospheres with magnetic-field-line-dependent plasma injection that reveal the importance of various magnetosphere regions in regulating the gamma-ray emission. We set different particle…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-07-28 Constantinos Kalapotharakos , Zorawar Wadiasingh , Alice K. Harding , Demosthenes Kazanas

In recent years, surprise discoveries of pulsed emission from the Crab and Vela pulsars above 100 GeV have drawn renewed attention to this largely unexplored region of the energy range. In this paper, we discuss example light curves due to…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-08-22 Christo Venter , Monica Barnard , Alice K. Harding , Constantinos Kalapotharakos
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