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We present optical spectropolarimetric and imaging polarimetric observations of four high-redshift radio galaxies (HzRGs) obtained with the 10-m Keck I telescope. A broad Mg II emission line is detected in the total and polarized flux…

Over the past few decades impressive progress has been made in the field of photon polarimetry, especially in the hard X-ray and soft gamma-ray energy regime. Measurements of the linear degree of polarization for some of the most energetic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-02-03 Cosmin Ilie

The observed spectra of 9 pulsars for which multiwavelength data are available from radio to $X$- or $\gamma$-ray bands (Crab, Vela, Geminga, B0656+14, B1055-52, B1509-58, B1706-44, B1929+10, and B1951+32) are compared with the spectrum of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2009-08-11 H. Ardavan , A. Ardavan , J. Singleton , J. Fasel , W. Junor , J. Middleditch , M. R. Perez , A. Schmidt , P. Sengupta , P. Volegov

During last years a few massive binary systems have been detected in the TeV gamma-rays. This gamma-ray emission is clearly modulated with the orbital periods of these binaries suggesting its origin inside the binary system. In this paper…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-06-27 W. Bednarek

We present X-ray and radio monitoring observations of the gamma-ray binary PSR J2032+4127/MT91 213 during its periastron passage in late 2017. Dedicated Chandra, XMM-Newton,NuSTAR X-ray observations and VLA radio observations of this long…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-14 C. -Y. Ng , W. C. G. Ho , E. V. Gotthelf , J. P. Halpern , M. J. Coe , B. W. Stappers , A. G. Lyne , K. S. Wood , M. Kerr

We present a modified scenario of gamma-ray emission from pulsars within the framework of polar cap models. Our model incorporates possible acceleration of electron-positron pairs created in magnetospheres, and their subsequent contribution…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 B. Rudak , J. Dyks

We present broadband spectral energy distributions (SEDs) and light curves of the gamma-ray binary 1FGL J1018.6$-$5856 measured in the X-ray and the gamma-ray bands. We find that the orbital modulation in the low-energy gamma-ray band is…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-04-12 Hongjun An , Roger W. Romani

We have performed a Monte-Calro simulation for Galactic population of pulsars and for the $\gamma$-ray observations. We apply outer gap model for the $\gamma$-ray emission process, and study the radiation characteristics as a function of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-27 J. Takata , Y. Wang , 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

We calculate the spectra expected from unsteady relativistic wind models of gamma-ray bursts, suitable for events of arbitrary duration. The spectral energy distribution of the burst is calculated over photon energies spanning from eV to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 Hara Papathanassiou , Peter Meszaros

Detailed morphological and spatially resolved spectral studies reveal the very high-energy (VHE) gamma-ray aspects of this object with unprecedented precision. We confirm previous results obtained in a survey of the Galactic Plane in 2004.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 F. Aharonian

The high-energy gamma-ray emission discovered using the H.E.S.S. telescopes from the binary system PSR B1259 -63, is modelled using an extension of the approach that successfully predicted it. We find that the simultaneous INTEGRAL and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 J. G. Kirk , Lewis Ball , S. Johnston

We report on a direct search for elastic photon-photon scattering using x-ray and $\gamma$ photons from a laser-plasma based experiment. A gamma photon beam produced by a laser wakefield accelerator provided a broadband gamma spectrum…

High-mass binaries hosting young pulsars can be powerful gamma-ray emitters. The stellar wind of the massive star in the system is expected to be clumpy. Since the high-energy emission comes from the pulsar-star wind interaction, the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-17 V. Bosch-Ramon

Scattering relativistic electrons with optical lasers can result in a significant frequency upshift for the photons, potentially producing $\gamma$-rays. This is what linear Compton scattering taught us. Ultra-intense lasers offer nowadays…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2019-06-05 Marija Vranic , Thomas Grismayer , Sebastian Meuren , Ricardo A. Fonseca , Luis O. Silva

Current generation of ground based gamma-ray telescopes observed dozens of sources of photons above 100 TeV. Supernova remnants, pulsar wind nebulae, young stellar clusters and superbubbles are considered as possible sites of PeV-regime…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-10-08 A. M. Bykov , A. E. Petrov , G. A. Ponomaryov , K. P. Levenfish , M. Falanga

We compare radio profile widths of young, energetic gamma-ray-detected and non-gamma-ray-detected pulsars. We find that the latter typically have wider radio profiles, with the boundary between the two samples exhibiting a dependence on the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-11-15 Simon C. Rookyard , Patrick Weltevrede , Simon Johnston , Matthew Kerr

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

LS I +61$^{\circ}$ 303 is one of the rare gamma-ray binaries, emitting most of their luminosity in photons with energies beyond 100 MeV. The $\sim$26.5 d orbital period is clearly detected at many wavelengths. Additional aspects of its…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-03-18 Shan-Shan Weng , Lei Qian , Bo-Jun Wang , D. F. Torres , A. Papitto , Peng Jiang , Renxin Xu , Jian Li , Jing-Zhi Yan , Qing-Zhong Liu , Ming-Yu Ge , Qi-Rong Yuan

We report on orbital modulation of the 100-600 MeV gamma-ray emission of the $P_{\rm B}=4.6$ hr millisecond pulsar binary PSR J2339$-$0533 using 11 yr of Fermi Large Area Telescope data. The modulation has high significance (chance…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-07-08 Hongjun An , Roger W. Romani , Matthew Kerr