High-Energy Emission from Pulsars and their Systems: Proceedings of the First Session of the Sant Cugat Forum on Astrophysics

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