{"id":182,"date":"2011-10-07T19:38:30","date_gmt":"2011-10-07T16:38:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/starburstfound.org\/superwaveblog\/?p=182"},"modified":"2011-10-07T19:38:30","modified_gmt":"2011-10-07T16:38:30","slug":"crab-pulsar-beams-most-energetic-gamma-rays-ever-detected-from-a-pulsar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starburstfound.org\/superwaveblog\/?p=182","title":{"rendered":"Crab pulsar beams most energetic gamma rays ever detected from a pulsar"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_76\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/starburstfound.org\/superwaveblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/Crab.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-76\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-76\" title=\"Crab Nebula\" src=\"http:\/\/starburstfound.org\/superwaveblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/Crab-300x298.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"298\" srcset=\"https:\/\/starburstfound.org\/superwaveblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/Crab-300x298.jpg 300w, https:\/\/starburstfound.org\/superwaveblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/Crab-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/starburstfound.org\/superwaveblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/Crab.jpg 468w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-76\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Crab Nebula in the constellation of Taurus<\/p><\/div>\n<p>On October 5, 2011, an international collaboration of astrophysicists announced that they had detected pulsed gamma ray emission from the Crab pulsar having the same period as the Crab pulsar. \u00a0Using\u00a0the VERITAS Cherenkov telescope array in Arizona, they detected\u00a0gamma ray energies in the range of 100 &#8211; 400 billion electron volts,\u00a0higher than anything previously observed from a pulsar and so energetic that current pulsar cosmic ray acceleration models fail to explain it.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.physorg.com\/news\/2011-10-theoretical-crab-pulsar-energetic-gamma.html\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.physorg.com\/news\/2011-10-theoretical-crab-pulsar-energetic-gamma.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Earlier this year, astronomers announced that they had detected a gamma ray flare from the Crab Nebula that was produced by cosmic ray electrons having energies of up to 10 quadrillion electron volts. \u00a0See story at: <a href=\"http:\/\/starburstfound.org\/superwaveblog\/?p=75\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/starburstfound.org\/superwaveblog\/?p=75<\/a>. \u00a0This is 100,000 times greater than the gamma ray energies observed to come from the Crab pulsar. \u00a0A conservative estimate would place the particle energies involved in producing the Crab Nebula flare as being several orders of magnitude higher than the particle energies inferred from the pulsar&#8217;s gamma emission. \u00a0So as concluded earlier, it is unlikely that the Crab pulsar is responsible for the Crab Nebula&#8217;s gamma emission.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On October 5, 2011, an international collaboration of astrophysicists announced that they had detected pulsed gamma ray emission from the Crab pulsar having the same period as the Crab pulsar. \u00a0Using\u00a0the VERITAS Cherenkov telescope array in Arizona, they detected\u00a0gamma ray energies in the range of 100 &#8211; 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