The Crab Pulsar is one of the few pulsars detected from GeV up to TeV energies. This talk will review recent gamma-ray observations of the pulsar performed with Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescopes (IACTs) and analyze their implications for current theoretical models that aim to explain the Very High Energy (VHE) emission from this source.
The detection of Very-High-Energy emission from pulsars is one of the milestone results in the field. Among the few sources know to date, Geminga is the only one with an age of a few hundred kilo-years. From its discovery to the recent observations with Cherenkov Telescopes, Geminga never ceases to surprise us.
Transitional millisecond pulsars (tMSPs) represent a crucial link between binary pulsars in their rotation-powered and accretion-powered states. During their active X-ray state, the tMSPs are the only low-mass X-ray binary systems that are detected up to GeV energies using the Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT). CXOU J110926.4-650224 is a newly discovered tMSP candidate in an active X-ray...
A significative fraction of high-mass stars sail away through the interstellar medium of the galaxies. Once they evolved and died via a core-collapse supernova, a magnetized, rotating neutron star (a pulsar) is usually their leftover. The immediate surroundings of the pulsar is the pulsar wind, which forms a nebula whose morphology is shaped by the supernova ejecta, channeled into the...
This talk will present an innovative application of graph theory using a type of graph known as the Minimum Spanning Tree (MST). This technique provides a novel tool to visualize and classify the population of pulsars by representing them together with their properties as nodes and edges through the MST, offering relationships and groupings that go beyond the traditional P-Pdot diagram. The...
