Guillaume Dubus
Lab. Astroph. Grenoble (LAOG), Obs. Grenoble (Grenoble, France)
Observations by new facilities in the past years have revealed new, unsuspected sources with a rich phenomenology. Binaries are amongst these sources. Their VHE lightcurves are modulated on their orbital period. I will review the observations and physical processes at work in these intriguing systems. The gamma-ray binaries are likely to harbour very young neutron stars and I will discuss what the systems might teach us about the physics of relativistic pulsar winds, one of the long standing problems of high energy astrophysics.
Salle des séminaires Évry Schatzman, Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris