High-Energy Emission from Pulsars and their Systems: Proceedings of the First Session of the Sant Cugat Forum on Astrophysics [1 ed.]
3642172504, 9783642172502
The aim of the inaugural meeting of the Sant Cugat Forum on Astrophysics was to address, in a global context, the curren
Table of contents : Front Matter....Pages i-xxxv Radio Pulsar Phenomenology....Pages 1-20 Radio pulsar populations....Pages 21-36 Pulsar Results with the Fermi Large Area Telescope....Pages 37-56 Fermi view of the EGRET pulsars....Pages 57-61 “Garden-variety” Gamma-ray Pulsars J0248+6021 & J2240+5832....Pages 63-68 Extension studies of galactic sources with Fermi....Pages 69-73 Advances in understanding double features in radio pulsar profiles....Pages 75-78 Emission from the Polar Cap and Slot Gap....Pages 79-98 Gamma-ray emission and pair creation of outer gap....Pages 99-116 What Pulsar High-Energy Emission Model Survives?....Pages 117-137 Current Models of Pulsar Magnetospheres....Pages 139-158 Modeling of γ-ray Pulsar Light Curves from Force-Free Magnetosphere....Pages 159-163 A Tale of Two Current Sheets....Pages 165-180 The high-energy emission from the pulsar striped wind....Pages 181-184 Gamma-rays from millisecond pulsars in Globular Clusters....Pages 185-205 Modelling the Growing Population of γ-ray Millisecond Pulsars....Pages 207-211 A Joint Radio Gamma-ray Variability Study of the Crab Pulsar....Pages 213-217 AGILE observations of PSR B1509-58....Pages 219-224 Understanding the fundamental parameters of millisecond pulsars....Pages 225-228 Pulsars as gravitational wave detectors....Pages 229-245 Magnetar outbursts: an observational review....Pages 247-273 Wide-band X-ray Studies of Magnetars with Suzaku....Pages 275-278 Bursts and Flares from Highly Magnetic Pulsars....Pages 279-298 Activated Magnetospheres of Magnetars....Pages 299-322 Suzaku Detection of Hard X-ray Emission in SGR 0501+4516 Short Burst Spectrum....Pages 323-327 The magnetar emission in the IR band: the role of magnetospheric currents....Pages 329-335 Double features in mean pulsar profiles and the nature of their radio emission....Pages 337-340 Can the magnetic field of long-period X-ray pulsars be supercritical ?....Pages 341-344 X-ray emission from isolated neutron stars....Pages 345-363 X-ray thermal radiation from hot polar cap in pulsars....Pages 365-368 Radio polarization of RRAT J1819-1458....Pages 369-372 Multiwavelength Observations of Pulsar Wind Nebulae....Pages 373-391 Multi-wavelength Observations of Composite Supernova Remnants....Pages 393-397 Fermi -LAT Results on Pulsar Wind Nebulae after 1.5 year of Observations....Pages 399-411 Pulsar Wind Nebulae: The GeV to TeV Connection....Pages 413-429 Extended hard X-ray emission from Vela X....Pages 431-434 Cherenkov Telescopes Results on Pulsar Wind Nebulae and Pulsars....Pages 435-452 Lepton Acceleration in Pulsar Wind Nebulae....Pages 453-472 MHD models of Pulsar Wind Nebulae....Pages 473-490 TeV Gamma Ray Survey on the Direction of Fermi -LAT Pulsars with the Tibet Air Shower Array....Pages 491-495 Fermi results on γ-ray binaries....Pages 497-511 Cherenkov Telescope results on gamma-ray binaries....Pages 513-530 γ-ray binaries as non-accreting pulsar systems....Pages 531-549 Relativistic motion and beamed radiation in gamma-ray binaries....Pages 551-554 A leptonic One-Zone model of the X-Ray/VHE correlated emission in LS I +61 303....Pages 555-558 New Optical Results on γ-ray Binaries....Pages 559-562 The International X-ray Observatory and other X-ray missions, expectations for pulsar physics....Pages 563-583 X-ray Polarimeters....Pages 585-609 New results on high energy cosmic ray electrons observed with Fermi LAT....Pages 611-621 Positrons from pulsar winds....Pages 623-641