Skip to main content
SpringerLink
Log in

Phenomenology of gamma-ray emitting binaries

  • A decade of AGILE
  • Published:
Rendiconti Lincei. Scienze Fisiche e Naturali Aims and scope Submit manuscript

Abstract

Gamma-ray emitting binaries (GREBs) are complex systems. Its study became in the last years a major endeavour for the high-energy astrophysics community, both from an observational and a theoretical perspective. Whereas the accumulation of observation time for most Galactic gamma-ray sources is typically leading to highly accurate descriptions of their steady phenomenology, GREBs keep providing “exceptions to the rule” either through long-term monitoring of known systems or in the discovery of new sources of this class. Moreover, many GREBs have been identified as powerful radio, optical and X-ray emitters, and may significantly contribute as well to the Galactic cosmic-ray sea. Their understanding implies, therefore, solving a puzzle in a broad-band and multi-messenger context. In these proceedings we will summarise our current understanding of GREBs, emphasising the most relevant observational results and reviewing a number of controversial properties.

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this article

Log in via an institution

Price excludes VAT (USA)
Tax calculation will be finalised during checkout.

Instant access to the full article PDF.

Institutional subscriptions

Similar content being viewed by others

Notes

  1. Phase-resolved spectroscopy can provide more extreme values for \(\Gamma _{\gamma }\), e.g. in LS 5039 \(\Gamma _{\gamma } = 1.8\) when the compact object is in its inferior conjunction, whereas \(\Gamma _{\gamma }\) = 3.1 during superior conjunction. Note that an exponential cutoff power law model best fits LS 5039 during its inferior conjunction.

References

  • Abdo AA, Ackermann M, Ajello M (2010a) Gamma-ray emission concurrent with the nova in the symbiotic binary V407 Cygni. Science 329:817

    CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Abdo AA, Ackermann M, Ajello M (2010b) Fermi large area telescope observation of a gamma-ray source at the position of Eta Carinae. ApJ 723:649

    Google Scholar 

  • Ackermann M, Ajello M, Albert A et al (2014) Fermi establishes classical novae as a distinct class of gamma-ray sources. Science 345:554

    Google Scholar 

  • Aharonian F, Akhperjanian AG, Aye K-M et al (2005a) Discovery of the binary pulsar PSR B1259–63 in very-high-energy gamma rays around periastron with HESS. A&A 442:1

    CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Aharonian F, Akhperjanian AG, Aye K-M (2005b) Discovery of very high energy gamma rays associated with an X-ray binary. Science 309:746

    CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Aharonian FA, Akhperjanian AG, Bazer-Bachi AR et al (2007) Discovery of a point-like very-high-energy \(\gamma \)-ray source in Monoceros. A&A 469:L1

    CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Ahnen ML, Ansoldi S, Antonelli LA et al (2015) Very high-energy \(\gamma \)-ray observations of novae and dwarf novae with the MAGIC telescopes. A&A 582:A67

    Google Scholar 

  • Albert J, Aliu E, Anderhub H (2006) Variable very-high-energy gamma-ray emission from the microquasar LS I +61 303. Science 312:1771

    CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Albert J, Aliu E, Anderhub H (2007) Detection of gamma-ray emission from the Eta-Carinae region. ApJL 665:L51

    CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Aliu E, Archambault S, Arlen T (2012) VERITAS observations of the Nova in V407 Cygni. ApJ 754:77

    Google Scholar 

  • Archambault S, Beilicke M, Benbow W (2013) VERITAS observations of the microquasar Cygnus X-3. ApJ 779:150

    Google Scholar 

  • Archibald AM, Stairs IH, Ransom SM (2009) A radio pulsar/X-ray binary link. Science 324:1411

    CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Atoyan AM, Aharonian FA (1999) Modelling of the non-thermal flares in the Galactic microquasar GRS 1915+105. MNRAS 302:253

    Google Scholar 

  • Benaglia P, Romero GE (2003) Gamma-ray emission from Wolf-Rayet binaries. A&A 399:1121

    Google Scholar 

  • Blandford RD, Znajek RL (1977) Electromagnetic extraction of energy from Kerr black holes. MNRAS 179:433

    Google Scholar 

  • Blandford RD, Payne DG (1982) Hydromagnetic flows from accretion discs and the production of radio jets. MNRAS 199:883

    Google Scholar 

  • Bogdanov S, Grindlay JE, van den Berg M (2005) An X-ray variable millisecond pulsar in the globular cluster 47 Tucanae: Closing the link to low-mass x-ray binaries. ApJ 630:1029

    CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Bogovalov SV, Aharonian FA (2000) Very-high-energy gamma radiation associated with the unshocked wind of the Crab pulsar. MNRAS 313:504

    CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Bordas P, Bosch-Ramon V, Paredes JM, Perucho M (2009) Non-thermal emission from microquasar/ISM interaction. A&A 497:325

    CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Bordas P, Yang R, Kafexhiu E, Aharonian F (2015) Detection of persistent gamma-ray emission toward SS433/W50. ApJL 807:L8

    Google Scholar 

  • Bosch-Ramon V, Aharonian FA, Paredes JM (2005) Electromagnetic radiation initiated by hadronic jets from microquasars in the ISM. A&A 432:609

    CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Bosch-Ramon V, Romero GE, Paredes JM (2006) A broadband leptonic model for gamma-ray emitting microquasars. A&A 447:263

    CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Chardin G, Gerbier G (1989) Cygnus X-3 at high energies—a critical analysis of observational results. A&A 210:52

    CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Cheung CC, Glanzman T, Hill AB (2012a) Fermi LAT Detection of a New Galactic Bulge Gamma-ray Transient in the Scorpius Region: Fermi J1750-3243, and its possible association with Nova Sco 2012. The Astron Telegr 4284

  • Cheung CC, Hays E, Venters T, Donato D, Corbet RHD (2012b) Fermi LAT detection of a new gamma-ray transient in the galactic plane: Fermi J0639+0548. Astron Telegr 4224

  • Cheung CC, Jean P, Shore SN (2013) Fermi-LAT observations of Nova V1369 Centauri 2013 brightening in gamma rays. Astron Telegr, 5653

  • Cheung CC, Jean P, Shore SN (2015) Further Fermi-LAT gamma-ray observations of Nova Sagittarii 2015 No. 2. Astron Telegr 7315

  • Cheung CC, Jean P, Shore SN, Fermi Large Area Telescope Collaboration (2016a) Fermi-LAT gamma-ray observations of Nova Lupus 2016 (ASASSN-16kt). The Astronomer’s Telegram, 9594

  • Cheung CC, Jean P, Shore SN, Fermi Large Area Telescope Collaboration. (2016b) Fermi-LAT Gamma-ray Observations of Nova Lupus 2016 (ASASSN-16kt). The Astronomer’s Telegram, 9594

  • Cheung CC, Jean P, Shore SN (2016c) Fermi-LAT gamma-ray detections of classical Novae V1369 Centauri 2013 and V5668 Sagittarii 2015. ApJ 826:142

    Google Scholar 

  • Chomiuk L, Linford JD, Yang J et al (2014) Binary orbits as the driver of \(\gamma \)-ray emission and mass ejection in classical novae. Nature 514:339

    CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Collaboration Fermi LAT, Abdo AA, Ackermann M (2009) Modulated high-energy gamma-ray emission from the microquasar Cygnus X-3. Science 326:1512

    Google Scholar 

  • Collaboration HESS, Abramowski A, Acero F et al (2012) HESS observations of the Carina nebula and its enigmatic colliding wind binary Eta Carinae. MNRAS 424:128

    Google Scholar 

  • Corbel S, Fender RP, Tzioumis AK (2002) Large-scale, decelerating, relativistic X-ray Jets from the Microquasar XTE J1550–564. Science 298:196

    CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Corbet RHD, Cheung CC, Kerr M et al (2011) 1FGL J1018.6-5856: a New Gamma-ray Binary. The Astronomer’s Telegram, 3221

  • Corbet RHD, Chomiuk L, Coe MJ (2016) A luminous gamma-ray binary in the large magellanic cloud. ApJ 829:105

    Google Scholar 

  • De Becker M (2007) Non-thermal emission processes in massive binaries. Astron Astrophys Rev 14:171

    Google Scholar 

  • de Martino D, Falanga M, Bonnet-Bidaud J-M et al (2010) The intriguing nature of the high-energy gamma ray source XSS J12270–4859. A&A 515:A25

    Google Scholar 

  • Dermer CD, Böttcher M (2006) Gamma rays from compton scattering in the jets of microquasars: application to LS 5039. ApJ 643:1081

    Google Scholar 

  • Díaz Trigo M, Miller-Jones JCA, Migliari S, Broderick JW, Tzioumis T (2013) Baryons in the relativistic jets of the stellar-mass black-hole candidate 4U1630-47. Nature 504:260

    Google Scholar 

  • Dubus G (2006) Gamma-ray binaries: pulsars in disguise? A&A 456:801

    Google Scholar 

  • Dubus G (2013) Gamma-ray binaries and related systems. Astron Astrophys Rev 21:64

    Google Scholar 

  • Eger P, Laffon H, Bordas P et al (2016) Discovery of a variable X-ray counterpart to HESS J1832–093: a new gamma-ray binary? MNRAS 457:1753

    CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Farnier C, Walter R, Leyder J-C (2011) \(\eta \) Carinae: a very large hadron collider. A&A 526:A57

    Google Scholar 

  • Franckowiak A, Jean P, Wood M, Cheung CC, Buson S (2018) Search for gamma-ray emission from Galactic novae with the Fermi -LAT. A&A 609:A120

    Google Scholar 

  • Hadasch D, Torres DF, Tanaka T (2012) Long-term monitoring of the high-energy \(\gamma \)-Ray emission from LS I +61 303 and LS 5039. ApJ 749:54

    Google Scholar 

  • Hays E, Cheung T, Ciprini S (2013) Detection of gamma rays from Nova Delphini 2013. The Astron Telegr 5302

  • Heinz S, Sunyaev R (2002) Cosmic rays from microquasars: a narrow component to the CR spectrum? A&A 390:751

    Google Scholar 

  • HESS Collaboration, Abramowski A, Acero F, et al. (2015) Discovery of the VHE gamma-ray source HESS J1832-093 in the vicinity of SNR G22.7-0.2. MNRAS, 446:1163

  • HESS Collaboration, Abdalla H, Abramowski A, et al (2018) A search for very high-energy flares from the microquasars GRS 1915+105, Circinus X-1, and V4641 Sgr using contemporaneous H.E.S.S. and RXTE observations. A&A, 612:A10

  • Kennel CF, Coroniti FV (1984) Confinement of the Crab pulsar’s wind by its supernova remnant. ApJ 283:694

    CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Khangulyan D, Aharonian FA, Bogovalov SV, Ribó M (2012) Post-periastron gamma-ray flare from PSR B1259–63/LS 2883 as a result of comptonization of the cold pulsar wind. ApJL 752:L17

    Google Scholar 

  • Kong SW, Cheng KS, Huang YF (2012) Modeling the multiwavelength light curves of PSR B1259–63/LS 2883. II. The effects of anisotropic pulsar wind and doppler boosting. ApJ 753:127

    Google Scholar 

  • Leser E, Ohm S, Füßling M et al (2017) First Results of Eta Car Observations with H.E.S.S.II. arXiv: 1708.01033

  • Leyder J-C, Walter R, Rauw G (2008) Hard X-ray emission from \(\eta \) Carinae. A&A 477:L29

    CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Li K-L, Chomiuk L (2016) Fermi-LAT detection of the Galactic nova TCP J18102829-2729590. Astron Telegr 9699

  • Li K-L, Chomiuk L, Strader J (2016) Fermi-LAT detection of a very bright gamma-ray onset from the Galactic Nova ASASSN-16ma. Astron Telegr 9736

  • Loh A, Corbel S, Dubus G et al (2016) High-energy gamma-ray observations of the accreting black hole V404 Cygni during its 2015 June outburst. MNRAS 462:L111

    CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Lucarelli F, Verrecchia F, Striani E et al (2010) AGILE detection of the new unidentified gamma-ray source AGL J2241+4454. Astrono Telegr 2761

  • Lyne AG, Stappers BW, Keith MJ et al (2015) The binary nature of PSR J2032+4127. MNRAS 451:581

    CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Malyshev D, Zdziarski AA, Chernyakova M (2013) High-energy gamma-ray emission from Cyg X-1 measured by Fermi and its theoretical implications. MNRAS 434:2380

    Google Scholar 

  • Markoff S, Falcke H, Fender R (2001) A jet model for the broadband spectrum of XTE J1118+480. Synchrotron emission from radio to X-rays in the Low/Hard spectral state. A&A 372:L25

    CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Martin P, Dubus G (2013) Particle acceleration and non-thermal emission during the V407 Cygni nova outburst. A&A 551:A37

    Google Scholar 

  • Martin P, Dubus G, Jean P, Tatischeff V, Dosne C (2018) Gamma-ray emission from internal shocks in novae. A&A 612:A38

    Google Scholar 

  • Massi M, Jaron F (2013) Long-term periodicity in LS I +61\({\deg }\)303 as beat frequency between orbital and precessional rate. A&A 554:A105

    Google Scholar 

  • Metzger BD, Hascoët R, Vurm I (2014) Shocks in nova outflows - I. Thermal emission. MNRAS 442:713

    Google Scholar 

  • Metzger BD, Caprioli D, Vurm I et al (2016) Novae as Tevatrons: prospects for CTA and IceCube. MNRAS 457:1786

    CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Migliari S, Fender R, Méndez M (2002) Iron emission lines from extended X-ray Jets in SS 433: reheating of atomic nuclei. Science 297:1673

    CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Mirabel IF (2006) Very energetic gamma-rays from microquasars and binary pulsars. Science 312:1759

    CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Mirabel IF, Rodríguez LF (1994) A superluminal source in the Galaxy. Nature 371:46

    Google Scholar 

  • Mirabel IF, Rodriguez LF, Cordier B, Paul J, Lebrun F (1992) A double-sided radio jet from the compact Galactic Centre annihilator 1E1740.7-2942. Nature 358:215

    Google Scholar 

  • Mori K, Gotthelf EV, Hailey CJ (2017) NuSTAR hard X-ray observation of the gamma-ray binary candidate HESS J1832–093. ApJ 848:80

    Google Scholar 

  • Ohm S, Hinton JA, Domainko W (2010) Particle acceleration in the expanding blast wave of \(\eta \) Carina’s Great Eruption of 1843. ApJL 718:L161

    Google Scholar 

  • Paredes JM (2011) Gamma-ray binaries: microquasars and binary systems with pulsar. arXiv:1101.4843

  • Pshirkov MS (2016) The Fermi-LAT view of the colliding wind binaries. MNRAS 457:L99

    CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Reitberger K, Reimer O, Reimer A et al (2012) Gamma-ray follow-up studies on \(\eta \) Carinae. A&A 544:A98

    Google Scholar 

  • Romero GE, Torres DF, Kaufman Bernadó MM, Mirabel IF (2003) Hadronic gamma-ray emission from windy microquasars. A&A 410:L1

    Google Scholar 

  • Romero GE, Okazaki AT, Orellana M, Owocki SP (2007) Accretion vs. colliding wind models for the gamma-ray binary LS I +61 303: an assessment. A&A 474:15

    CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Sabatini S, Tavani M, Coppi P (2013) Gamma-ray observations of Cygnus X-1 above 100 MeV in the hard and soft states. ApJ 766:83

    Google Scholar 

  • Saito TY, Zanin R, Bordas P, et al (2009) Microquasar observations with the MAGIC telescope. arXiv:0907.1017

  • Tatischeff V, Hernanz M (2007) Evidence for nonlinear diffusive shock acceleration of cosmic rays in the 2006 outburst of the recurrent Nova RS Ophiuchi. ApJL 663:L101

    CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Tavani M, Bulgarelli A, Piano G et al (2009) Extreme particle acceleration in the microquasar CygnusX-3. Nature 462:620

    CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Tavani M, Sabatini S, Pian E (2009) Detection of gamma-ray emission from the Eta-Carinae region. ApJL 698:L142

    CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Werner M, Reimer O, Reimer A, Egberts K (2013) Fermi-LAT upper limits on gamma-ray emission from colliding wind binaries. A&A 555:A102

    Google Scholar 

  • Wu EMH, Takata J, Cheng KS et al (2012) Orbital-phase-dependent \(\gamma \)-Ray Emissions from the Black Widow Pulsar. ApJ 761:181

    Google Scholar 

  • Zabalza V, Bosch-Ramon V, Aharonian F, Khangulyan D (2013) Unraveling the high-energy emission components of gamma-ray binaries. A&A 551:A17

    Google Scholar 

  • Zanin R, Fernández-Barral A, de Oña Wilhelmi E et al (2016) Gamma rays detected from Cygnus X-1 with likely jet origin. A&A 596:A55

    Google Scholar 

Download references

Author information

Authors and Affiliations

  1. ICCUB, Department of Quantum Physics and Astrophysics, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain

    Josep Maria Paredes & Pol Bordas

Authors
  1. Josep Maria Paredes
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  2. Pol Bordas
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

Corresponding author

Correspondence to Josep Maria Paredes.

Additional information

Publisher's Note

Springer Nature remains neutral with regard to jurisdictional claims in published maps and institutional affiliations.

This paper is the peer-reviewed version of a contribution selected among those presented at the Conference on Gamma-Ray Astrophysics with the AGILE Satellite held at Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei and Agenzia Spaziale Italiana, Rome on December 11–13, 2017. TC: A decade of AGILE.

Rights and permissions

Reprints and permissions

About this article

Check for updates. Verify currency and authenticity via CrossMark

Cite this article

Paredes, J.M., Bordas, P. Phenomenology of gamma-ray emitting binaries. Rend. Fis. Acc. Lincei 30 (Suppl 1), 107–113 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12210-019-00769-w

Download citation

  • Received:

  • Accepted:

  • Published:

  • Issue Date:

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s12210-019-00769-w

Keywords

Search

Navigation