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We use the GALPROP model for cosmic-ray (CR) propagation to obtain our best prediction of the Galactic component of gamma rays, and show that away from the Galactic plane it gives an accurate prediction of the observed EGRET intensities. On…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. W. Strong , I. V. Moskalenko , O. Reimer

Diffuse gamma-ray emission (DGE) has been discovered over the Galactic disk in the energy range from sub-GeV to sub-PeV. While it is believed to be dominated by the pionic emission of cosmic ray (CR) hadrons via interactions with…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-05-18 Kai Yan , Ruo-Yu Liu

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

We review current understanding of the underlying, as opposed to the observed, pulsar population. The observed sample is heavily biased by selection effects, so that surveys see less than 10% of all potentially observable pulsars. We…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 D. R. Lorimer

We present the largest single survey to date of average profiles of radio pulsars, observed and processed using the same telescope and data reduction software. Specifically, we present measurements for 1170 pulsars, observed by the Thousand…

Image-based searches have become a complementary approach for identifying pulsars, particularly at MHz frequencies where scattering and high dispersion measures affect high-time resolution observations. In this work, we searched the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-09-04 Silvia Mantovanini , N. Hurley-Walker , G. Anderson , K. Ross , S. W. Duchesne , T. J. Galvin

The all-sky surveys in gamma-rays by the imaging Compton telescope (COMPTEL) and the Energetic Gamma Ray Experiment Telescope (EGRET) on board the Compton Gamma Ray Observatory for the first time allows detailed studies of the extragalactic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 P. Sreekumar , F. W. Stecker , S. C. Kappadath

Millisecond pulsars (MSPs) are a leading explanation of the Galactic Center excess (GCE) observed in Fermi-LAT data. We constrain this scenario by jointly modeling prompt and inverse-Compton $\gamma$ rays from MSP-injected $e^\pm$ on the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-05-27 Jordan Koechler , Pedro De la Torre Luque , Mattia Di Mauro

The Fermi Large Area Telescope has detected over 260 gamma-ray pulsars. About one quarter of these are labeled as radio-quiet. In the population of nonrecycled gamma-ray pulsars, the fraction of radio-quiet pulsars is higher, about one…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-10-13 J. -M. Grießmeier , D. A. Smith , G. Theureau , T. J. Johnson , M. Kerr , L. Bondonneau , I. Cognard , M. Serylak

In the advent of next generation gamma-ray missions, we present general properties of spectral features of high-energy emission above $1\MeV$ expected for a class of millisecond, low magnetic field ($\sim 10^9\G$) pulsars. We extend…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 T. Bulik , B. Rudak , J. Dyks

Recent observations with atmospheric Cherenkov telescope systems such as H.E.S.S. and MAGIC have revealed a large number of new sources of very-high-energy (VHE) gamma-rays from 100 GeV - 100 TeV, mostly concentrated along the Galactic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 S. Funk , O. Reimer , D. F. Torres , J. A. Hinton

Observations of high energy gamma rays recently revealed a persistent source in spatial coincidence with the binary system Eta Carinae. Since modulation of the observed gamma-ray flux on orbital time scales has not been reported so far, an…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2012-08-14 K. Reitberger , O. Reimer , A. Reimer , M. Werner , K. Egberts , H. Takahashi

We show that the $\gamma$-ray pulsar observables, i.e., their total $\gamma$-ray luminosity, $L_{\gamma}$, spectral cut-off energy, $\epsilon_{\rm cut}$, stellar surface magnetic field, $B_{\star}$, and spin-down power $\dot{\mathcal{E}}$,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-09-25 Constantinos Kalapotharakos , Alice K. Harding , Demosthenes Kazanas , Zorawar Wadiasingh

Pulsars are highly magnetized rotating neutron stars, emitting in a broad electromagnetic energy range. Reproducing the observed pulsars population refines our understanding of their formation and evolution scenarios as well as their…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-11-27 Mattéo Sautron , Jérôme Pétri , Dipanjan Mitra , Ludmilla Dirson

Measurements of the diffuse extragalactic gamma-ray background (EGRB) are complicated by a strong Galactic foreground. Estimates of the EGRB flux and spectrum, obtained by modeling the Galactic emission, have produced a variety of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Uri Keshet , Eli Waxman , Abraham Loeb

EGRET can now study six pulsars since the recent detection of PSR B1951+32. Careful analysis of the three brightest pulsars shows that gamma rays are emitted through essentially the entire rotation. This calls into question the previous…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-04-15 P. L. Nolan , the EGRET team

Because of the relatively broad angular resolution of current gamma-ray instruments in the MeV-GeV energy range, the photons of a given source are mixed with those coming from nearby sources or diffuse background. This source confusion…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-02-06 P. Bruel

Forty six gamma-ray pulsars were reported in the First Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) Catalog of Gamma-ray Pulsars. Over forty more have been seen since then. A simple but effective figure-of-merit for gamma-detectability is…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-14 X. Hou , D. Dumora , M. Lemoine-Goumard , M. -H. Grondin , D. A. Smith

The energy domain between 10 MeV and hundreds of GeV is an essential one for the multifrequency study of extreme astrophysical sources. The understanding of spectra of detected gamma rays is necessary for developing models for acceleration,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Aldo Morselli

Due to the low gamma-ray fluxes from pulsars above 50 GeV and the small collecting area of space-based telescopes, the gamma-ray emission discovered by the Fermi-LAT in $\sim$150 pulsars is largely unexplored at these energies. In this…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-20 A. McCann