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In this review paper we explain the following gamma-ray emission features from the millisecond pulsars. (1)Why is the dipolar field of millisecond pulsars so weak but the magnetic pair creation process may still be able to control the size…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-17 K. S. Cheng

Millisecond pulsars (MSPs) represent nearly half of the more than 160 currently known $\gamma$-ray pulsars detected by the Large Area Telescope on the \textit{Fermi} satellite, and a third of all known MSPs are seen in $\gamma$ rays. The…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-03-02 L. Guillemot , D. A. Smith , H. Laffon , G. H. Janssen , I. Cognard , G. Theureau , G. Desvignes , E. C. Ferrara , P. S. Ray

Over the last few years, the data obtained using the Large Area Telescope (LAT) aboard the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope has provided new insights on high-energy processes in globular clusters, particularly those involving compact objects…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-02-22 P. H. Thomas Tam , C. Y. Hui , Albert K H. Kong

We investigate particle accelerators in rotating neutron-star magnetospheres, by simultaneously solving the Poisson equation for the electrostatic potential together with the Boltzmann equations for electrons, positrons and photons on the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Kouichi Hirotani

We have undertaken an extensive study of X-ray data from the accreting millisecond pulsar XTE J1751-305 observed by RXTE and XMM-Newton during its 2002 outburst. In all aspects this source is similar to a prototypical millisecond pulsar SAX…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Marek Gierlinski , Juri Poutanen

One fundamental question about pulsars concerns the mechanism of their pulsed electromagnetic emission. Measuring the high-end region of a pulsar's spectrum would shed light on this question. By developing a new electronic trigger, we…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-04-08 The MAGIC Collaboration , E. Aliu

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

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

Over the next year, a new era of observations of compact objects in X-ray polarization will commence. Among the key targets for the upcoming Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer mission, will be the magnetars 4U 0142+61 and 1RXS…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-06-22 Ilaria Caiazzo , Denis González-Caniulef , Jeremy Heyl , Rodrigo Fernández

Recent kinetic simulations sparked a debate regarding the emission mechanism responsible for pulsed GeV $\gamma$-ray emission from pulsars. Some models invoke curvature radiation, while other models assume synchrotron radiation in the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-02-16 Monica Barnard , Christo Venter , Alice K. Harding , Constantinos Kalapotharakos , Tyrel J. Johnson

The X-ray light curve and broad band spectral properties of the millisecond X-ray pulsar/burster SAX J1808.4-3658 are reported. In the course of RXTE observations in April--May 1998 the 3--150 keV luminosity of the source decreased by a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-05-23 M. Gilfanov , M. Revnivtsev , R. Sunyaev , E. Churazov

The vast majority of pulsars detected by the Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) display exponentially cutoff spectra with cutoffs falling in a narrow band around a few GeV. Early spectral modelling predicted spectral cutoffs at energies of up…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-07-25 M. Breed , C. Venter , A. K. Harding

Most pulsars observed by the Fermi LAT have gamma-ray luminosities scaling with spindown power Edot as L_gamma (Edot x 10^33 erg/s)^{1/2}. However, there exist one detection and several upper limits an order of magnitude or more fainter…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-28 R. W. Romani , M. Kerr , H. A. Craig , S. Johnston , I. Cognard , D. A. Smith

Some massive binaries should contain energetic pulsars which inject relativistic leptons from their inner magnetospheres and/or pulsar wind regions. If the binary system is compact enough, then these leptons can initiate inverse Compton…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Sierpowska , W. Bednarek

We have used the 150 MHz radio continuum survey (TGSS ADR) from the Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope (GMRT) to search for phase-averaged emission toward all well-localized radio pulsars north of -53deg Declination. We detect emission toward…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-10-05 D. A. Frail , P. Jagannathan , K. P. Mooley , H. T. Intema

We calculate the gamma-ray lightcurves and spectra of rotation powered pulsars for a wide range of observer's viewing angles, and inclination angles of the magnetic axis to the rotation axis. We show how the shapes of the observed…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Agnieszka Wozna , Jaroslaw Dyks , Tomasz Bulik , Bronislaw Rudak

We present 294 pulsars found in GeV data from the Large Area Telescope (LAT) on the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope. Another 33 millisecond pulsars (MSPs) discovered in deep radio searches of LAT sources will likely reveal pulsations once…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-11-29 David A. Smith , Philippe Bruel , Colin J. Clark , Lucas Guillemot , Matthew T. Kerr , Paul Ray , Soheila Abdollahi , Marco Ajello , Luca Baldini , Jean Ballet , Matthew Baring , Cees Bassa , Josefa Becerra Gonzalez , Ronaldo Bellazzini , Alessandra Berretta , Bhaswati Bhattacharyya , Elisabetta Bissaldi , Raffaella Bonino , Eugenio Bottacini , Johan Bregeon , Marta Burgay , Toby Burnett , Rob Cameron , Fernando Camilo , Regina Caputo , Patrizia Caraveo , Elisabetta Cavazzuti , Graziano Chiaro , Stefano Ciprini , Ismael Cognard , Paolo Cristarella Orestano , Milena Crnogorcevic , Alessandro Cuoco , Sara Cutini , Filippo D'Ammando , Alessandro de Angelis , Salvatore De Gaetano , Raniere de Menezes , Francesco de Palma , Megan DeCesar , Julia Deneva , Niccola Di Lalla , Leonardo Di Venere , Feraol Fana Dirirsa , Alberto Dominguez , Denis Dumora , Stephen Fegan , Elizabeth Ferrara , Alessio Fiori , Henrike Fleischhack , Chris Flynn , Anna Franckowiak , Paulo Freire , Yasushi Fukazawa , Piergiorgio Fusco , Giorgio Galanti , Viviana Gammaldi , Fabio Gargano , Dario Gasparrini , Federica Giacchino , Nico Giglietto , Francesco Giordano , Marcello Giroletti , David Green , Isabelle Grenier , Sylvain Guiriec , Michael Gustafsson , Alice Harding , Liz Hays , John Hewitt , Deirdre Horan , Xian Hou , Fabian Jankowski , Tyrel Johnson , Robert Johnson , Simon Johnston , Jun Kataoka , Michael J. Keith , Michael Kramer , Michael Kuss , Luca Latronico , Shiu-Hang Lee , Di Li , Jian Li , Brent Limyansky , Francesco Longo , Francesco Loparco , Leonarda Lorusso , Michael Lovellette , Marcus Lower , Pasquale Lubrano , Andrew Lyne , Simone Maldera , Richard Manchester , Alberto Manfreda , Martino Marelli , Guillem Marta-Devesa , Mario Nicola Mazziotta , Julie McEnery , Isabella Mereu , Peter Michelson , Warit Mitthumsiri , Tsunefumi Mizuno , Alex Moiseev , Maria Elena Monzani , Aldo Morselli , Michela Negro , Rodrigo Nemmen , Lars Nieder , Eric Nuss , Nicola Omodei , Monica Orienti , Elena Orlando , Jonathan F. Ormes , Michele Palatiello , David Paneque , Giuliana Panzarini , Massimo Persic , Melissa Pesce-Rollins , Roberta Pillera , Helen Poon , Troy Porter , Giacomo Principe , Silvia Raino , Riccardo Rando , Scott Ransom , Massimiliano Razzano , Soebur Razzaque , Anita Reimer , Olaf Reimer , Nicolas Renault-Tinacci , Roger Romani , Miguel A. Sanchez-Conde , Pablo Saz Parkinson , Lorenzo Scotton , Davide Serini , Carmelo Sgro , Ryan Shannon , Vidushi Sharma , Eric J. Siskind , Gloria Spandre , Paolo Spinelli , Ben Stappers , Tom Stephens , Dan Suson , Hiro Tajima , Dongguen Tak , Gilles Theureau , David Thompson , Omar Tibolla , Diego F. Torres , Janeth Valverde , Christo Venter , Zorawar Wadiasingh , Nina Wang , Pei Wang , Patrick Weltevrede , Kent Wood , Gabrijela Zaharijas

For comprehensive studying of giant pulses (GPs) from the Crab pulsar and the original millisecond pulsar (MSP) B1937+21 (J1939+2134), we conducted multifrequency observations over the last few years. They show that giant pulses may be…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 V. Soglasnov

This study presents a comprehensive analysis of the spectral properties of 886 pulsars across a wide frequency range from 20MHz to 343.5GHz, including a total of 86 millisecond pulsars. The majority of the pulsars exhibit power-law behavior…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-04-18 H. W. Xu , R. S. Zhao , Erbil Gugercinoglu , H. Liu , D. Li , P. Wang , C. H. Niu , C. Miao , X. Zhu , R. W. Tian , W. L. Li , S. D. Wang , Z. F. Tu , Q. J. Zhi , S. J. Dang , L. H. Shang , S. Xiao

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