EGRET Observations of Pulsars
Astrophysics
2011-04-15 v1
Abstract
EGRET can now study six pulsars since the recent detection of PSR B1951+32. Careful analysis of the three brightest pulsars shows that gamma rays are emitted through essentially the entire rotation. This calls into question the previous interpretation of the Crab's low-level emission as due entirely to its nebula. The pulse light curves have either well-separated double peaks or very broad peaks which might be resolved into multiple components. The spectra are consistent with power laws over a large portion of the EGRET energy range, and many show a dropoff at a few GeV.
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@article{arxiv.astro-ph/9607079,
title = {EGRET Observations of Pulsars},
author = {P. L. Nolan and the EGRET team},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/9607079},
year = {2011}
}
Comments
5 pages, 4 eps figures, A&A style macro, based on Joe Fierro's PhD dissertation, to be published in the proceedings of the Third Compton Symposium (Munich)