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The aim of the inaugural meeting of the Sant Cugat Forum on Astrophysics was to address, in a global context, the current understanding of and challenges in high-energy emissions from isolated and non-isolated neutron stars, and to confront the theoretica
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High-Energy Emission from Pulsars and their Systems Proceedings of the First Session of the Sant Cugat Forum on Astrophysics Editors
Nanda Rea Diego F. Torres
Editors Nanda Rea Institut de Ciències de l’Espai (IEEC-CSIC) Campus UAB Fac. de Ciències Torre C5, parell, 2a planta 08193 Barcelona Spain [email protected]
Diego F. Torres Institut de Ciències de l’Espai (IEEC-CSIC) Campus UAB Fac. de Ciències Torre C5, parell, 2a planta 08193 Barcelona Spain [email protected]
ISSN 1570-6591 e-ISSN 1570-6605 ISBN 978-3-642-17250-2 e-ISBN 978-3-642-17251-9 DOI 10.1007/978-3-642-17251-9 Springer Heidelberg Dordrecht London New York Library of Congress Control Number: 2011920988 © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2011 This work is subject to copyright. All rights are reserved, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilm or in any other way, and storage in data banks. Duplication of this publication or parts thereof is permitted only under the provisions of the German Copyright Law of September 9, 1965, in its current version, and permission for use must always be obtained from Springer. Violations are liable to prosecution under the German Copyright Law. The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use. Cover design: eStudio Calamar S.L. Printed on acid-free paper Springer is part of Springer Science+Business Media (www.springer.com)
This book is dedicated to the memory of Prof. Okkie de Jager
Preface
The Sant Cugat Forum on Astrophysics1 is a framework meant to host international meetings on violent and energetic phenomena in the Universe happening both at Galactic and extra-Galactic scales. Among the meetings hosted by the Forum, the most recognizable will be the Workshop sessions focusing on a specific aspect of astrophysics, like the one this book is about. These will typically be held every two years, with a typical size of 100 persons, hosting many plenary talks, and having a duration of about four days. The Forum has been established under the auspices of the Sant Cugat City Hall, the Institute for Space Sciences (ICE-CSIC), the Institut d’Estudis Espacials de Catalunya (IEEC), and the Instituci´o Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avanc¸ats (ICREA). The inaugural meeting of the Forum, which we are pleased to report on with this book, has been about the High-Energy Emission from Pulsars and their Systems. The aim of this meeting was to address, in a global context, the current knowledge and challenges on the high-energy emission from isolated and non-isolated neutron stars, as confronted with observations of both the Fermi satellite (and its main experiment: the Large Area Telescope) and the currently oper
