Publications by authors named "Christo Venter"

Pulsed emission from the Vela pulsar at energies above 3 TeV has recently been detected by the H.E.S.

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Multiwavelength followup of unidentified sources has vastly expanded the number of known galactic-field "black widow" and "redback" millisecond pulsar binaries. Focusing on their rotation-powered state, we interpret the radio to X-ray phenomenology in a consistent framework. We advocate the existence of two distinct modes differing in their intrabinary shock orientation, distinguished by the phase-centering of the double-peaked X-ray orbital modulation originating from mildly-relativistic Doppler boosting.

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