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The detected high-energy pulsars' population is growing in number, and thus, having agile and physically relevant codes to analyze it consistently is important. Here, we update our existing synchro-curvature radiation model by including a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-09-21 Daniel Íñiguez-Pascual , Daniele Viganò , Diego F. Torres

Using recently calculated analytic models for the thermal structure of ultramagnetized neutron stars, we estimate the thermal fluxes from young ($t\sim 1000$ yr) ultramagnetized ($B \sim 10^{15}$ G) cooling neutron stars. We find that the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Jeremy S. Heyl , Lars Hernquist

As a result of recent observations with ROSAT and ASCA the number of rotation-powered pulsars seen at X-ray energies has increased substantially. In this paper we review the phenomenology of the observed X-ray emission properties. At…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 W. Becker , J. Trümper

Although pulsars can radiate electromagnetic wave from radio to gamma ray bands, we still have no a united model to understand the multi-band emission. In this paper the effort for a joint model is presented. The inverse Compton scattering…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 G. J. Qiao , K. J. Lee , H. G. Wang , R. X. Xu

We study the structure of an outer-magnetospheric gap around a rotating neutron star. Migratory electrons and positrons are accelerated by the electric field exerted in the gap and radiate copious gamma-rays via curvature process. Some of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 K. Hirotani

The discovery of millisecond pulsars switching between states powered either by the rotation of their magnetic field or by the accretion of matter, has recently proved the tight link shared by millisecond radio pulsars and neutron stars in…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-04-28 A. Papitto , D. F. Torres

In the cosmological blast-wave model for gamma ray bursts (GRBs), high energy (> 10 GeV) gamma-rays are produced either through Compton scattering of soft photons by ultrarelativistic electrons, or as a consequence of the acceleration of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 M. Boettcher , C. D. Dermer

We present a model of gamma-ray emission through neutral pion production and decay in two-temperature accretion flows around supermassive black holes. We refine previous studies of such a hadronic gamma-ray emission by taking into account…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-15 Andrzej Niedzwiecki , Fu-Guo Xie , Agnieszka Stepnik

Pulsar halos (also termed 'TeV halo') are a new class of $\gamma$-ray sources in Galaxy, which manifest as extended $\gamma$-ray emission around middle-age pulsars, as discovered around the Geminga pulsar, the Monogem pulsar and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-02-01 Qi-Zuo Wu , Chao-Ming Li , Xuan-Han Liang , Chong Ge , Ruo-Yu Liu

A new model for the high-energy emission from pulsars is developed by considering charged particle motion in the fields of a spinning, highly magnetised and conducting sphere in vacuum. A generally applicable approximation to the particle…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 M. G. Higgins , R. N. Henriksen

We have detected significant X-ray emission from the direction of the young radio pulsar PSR J1105-6107 using the ASCA Observatory. The 11 sigma detection includes 460 background-subtracted source counts derived using data from all four…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 E. V. Gotthelf , V. M. Kaspi

Electron-positron pair production by collision of photons is investigated in view of application to pulsar physics. We compute the absorption rate of individual gamma-ray photons by an arbitrary anisotropic distribution of softer photons,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-01-24 Guillaume Voisin , Fabrice Mottez , Silvano Bonazzola

Globular clusters (GCs) with their ages of the order of several billion years contain many final products of evolution of stars such as: neutron stars, white dwarfs and probably also black holes. These compact objects can be at present…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-19 W. Bednarek

Recent obserbations by Fermi Gamma-Ray Space Telescope of gamma-ray pulsars have revealed further details of the structure of the emission region. We investigate the emission region for the multi-wavelength light curve using outer gap…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2011-11-01 Shota Kisaka , Yasufumi Kojima

We discuss a possible scenario for radiation mechanism of pulsed GeV gamma-rays from magnetars. The magnetars have shown frequent X-ray bursts, which would be triggered by crust fractures and could release the energy of order of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-15 J. Takata , Y. Wang , E. M. H. Wu , K. S. Cheng

The X-ray emission properties from the hot thermalized plasma that results from the collisions of individual stellar winds and supernovae ejecta within rich and compact star clusters are discussed. We propose a simple analytical way of…

Be/X-ray binaries are systems formed by a massive Be star and a magnetized neutron star, usually in an eccentric orbit. The Be star has strong equatorial winds occasionally forming a circumstellar disk. When the neutron star intersects the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Mariana Orellana , Gustavo E. Romero

Gamma-ray binaries could be compact pulsar wind nebulae formed when a young pulsar orbits a massive star. The pulsar wind is contained by the stellar wind of the O or Be companion, creating a relativistic comet-like structure accompanying…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-18 G. Dubus , B. Cerutti , G. Henri

We present spectra of pulsed gamma-ray emission expected from millisecond pulsars within the framework of polar-cap models. The spectra are a superposition of three components due to curvature (CR), synchrotron (SR), and Compton…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Tomasz Bulik , Bronislaw Rudak

The X-ray spectra of isolated neutron stars (INSs) typically include a thermal component, that comes from the cooling surface, and a non-thermal component, produced by highly-relativistic particles accelerated in the stellar magnetosphere.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-01-22 Michela Rigoselli