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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

Low energy X-ray emission (0.1-10 keV) from all six millisecond radio pulsars (MSPs) for which such emission has been reported support a proposed pulsar magnetic field evolution previously compared only to radiopulse data: old, very…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. Ruderman

Recent observations of X-ray pulsars at low luminosities allow, for the first time, to compare theoretical models for the emission from highly magnetized neutron star atmospheres at low mass accretion rates ($\dot{M} \lesssim 10^{15}$ g…

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

The gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) of long duration are very likely to be connected to the death of massive stars. The gamma-ray emission is believed to come from energy released internally in a flow that moves at ultrarelativistic speed. The fast…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-23 Dimitrios Giannios

The observations of TeV blazars published recently show an unexpected quadratic or even cubic correlation between the X-ray and gamma-ray emission. A standard model of the synchrotron self-Compton emission of a compact source inside a jet…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-14 K. Katarzynski , K. Walczewska

Magnetars are a unique class of neutron stars characterized by their incredibly strong magnetic fields. Unlike normal pulsars whose X-ray emission was driven by rotational energy loss, magnetars exhibit distinct X-ray emissions thought to…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-08-21 Che-Yen Chu , Hsiang-Kuang Chang

The detection of gamma-ray emission from accreting pulsars in X-ray binaries (XRBs) has long been sought after. For some high-mass X-ray binaries (HMXBs), marginal detections have recently been reported. Regardless of whether these will be…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-08-14 L. Ducci , P. Romano , S. Vercellone , A. Santangelo

Using a simplified model of cascade pair creation over pulsar polar caps presented in two previous papers, we investigate the expected gamma-ray output from pulsars' low altitude particle acceleration and pair creation regions. We divide…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 J. A. Hibschman

X-ray pulsars experiencing extreme mass accretion rates can produce neutrino emission in the MeV energy band. Neutrinos in these systems are emitted in close proximity to the stellar surface and subsequently undergo gravitational bending in…

We investigate a stationary pair production cascade in the outer magnetosphere of a spinning neutron star. The charge depletion due to global flows of charged particles, causes a large electric field along the magnetic field lines.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Kouichi Hirotani , Alice K. Harding , Shinpei Shibata

We consider the neutron star (NS) of the magnetar type inside the massive binary system. We determine the conditions under which the matter from the stellar wind can penetrate the inner magnetosphere of the magnetar. At some distance from…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-13 W. Bednarek

The radiation of pulsars have been observed for many years. A few pulsars are discovered to have both radio and gamma-ray emission. Many models on pulsar radiation have been developed, but so far we are still lacking an elaborate model…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-09-29 G. J. Qiao , K. J. Lee , H. G. Wang , R. X. Xu

Gamma-rays from pulsars can be efficiently attenuated in their magnetospheres via the mechanism of single-photon pair production and also the exotic QED process of photon splitting, which become prolific in fields approaching the quantum…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 Matthew G. Baring , Alice K. Harding , Peter L. Gonthier

We study mechanisms of multi-wavelength emissions (X-ray, GeV and TeV gamma-rays) from the gamma-ray binary LS~5039. This paper is composed of two parts. In the first part, we report on results of observational analysis using four year data…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-22 J. Takata , Gene C. K. Leung , P. H. T. Tam , A. K. H. Kong , C. Y. Hui , K. S. Cheng

Three binaries are now established sources of emission at very high energies (>1e11 eV). They are composed of a massive star and a compact object. The emission can be due to the interaction of the relativistic wind from a young ms pulsar…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Guillaume Dubus

Since the era of the Fermi/LAT and atmospheric Cerenkov telescopes, pulsars are known to emit high and very high-energy photons, in the MeV-GeV range and sometimes up to TeV. To date, it is still unclear where and how these photons are…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-02-13 Jérôme Pétri

Several binary systems consisting of a massive star and a compact object have been detected above 100 GeV in the Galaxy. In most of these sources, gamma-rays show a modulation associated to the orbital motion, which means that the emitter…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-18 V. Bosch-Ramon

We have completed part of a program to study the X-ray emission properties of old rotation-powered pulsars with XMM-Newton in order to probe and identify the origin of their X-radiation. The X-ray emission from these old pulsars is largely…

We present the timing and spectral analyses of theXMM-newton data on the 17-Myr-old, nearby radio pulsar B0950+08. This observation revealed pulsations of the X-ray flux of the pulsar at its radio period. The pulse shape and pulsed fraction…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 V. E. Zavlin , G. G. Pavlov