Conveners
Gamma ray astronomy IV/Heliophysics
- Petra Huentemeyer
For many years, high-energy pulsar models were rather uncertain as to the expectations of detectable pulsed TeV spectral components from pulsars. Surprisingly, MAGIC announced the detection of pulsations from the Crab pulsar up to 25 GeV in 2008, followed by the VERITAS pulsed detection up to 400 GeV, and finally MAGIC's detection up to 1.5 TeV. This opened a new window into pulsar science....
Fermi-LAT observations have provided a wealth of data in the GeV band. Moreover, recent observations from ground-based imaging atmospheric Cherenkov telescopes have revealed multi-TeV pulsed emission. The consensus from the latest theoretical modeling is that the high-energy pulsar emission is produced in the equatorial current sheet outside the light cylinder. I will discuss how the...
Over the course of more than six decades numerous and sophisticated models of the interaction of the solar wind (SW) with the Local Interstellar Medium (LISM) have been developed. As a result of this interaction, the heliosphere was formed. Understanding of the heliosphere and surrounding it region is necessary to enable future investigations, aimed for example at exploring the structure and...
