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New pulsars detected in gamma-rays with the Fermi-LAT

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena 2019-08-14 v2

Abstract

The Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) is a powerful pulsar detector, as demonstrated by the over one hundred objects in its second catalog of pulsars. Pass 8 is a new reconstruction and event selection strategy developed by the Fermi-LAT collaboration. Due to the increased acceptance at low energy, Pass 8 improves the pulsation detection sensitivity. Ten new pulsars rise above the 5 sigma threshold and are presented in this work, as well as one previously seen with the former Pass 7 reconstruction. More than 60%\% of the known pulsars with spin-down power (E˙\dot{E}) greater than 103610^{36} erg/s show pulsations in gamma-rays, as seen with the Fermi Large Area Telescope. Many non-detections of these energetic pulsars are thought to be a consequence of a high background level, or a large distance leading to a flux below the sensitivity limit of the instrument. The gamma-ray beams of the others probably miss the Earth. The new Pass 8 data now allows the detection of gamma ray pulsations from three of these high spin-down pulsars, PSRs J1828-1101, J1831-0952 and J1837-0604, as well as three others with E˙\dot{E} 1035\ge 10^{35} erg/s. We report on their properties and we discuss the reasons for their detection with Pass 8.

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@article{arxiv.1502.03251,
  title  = {New pulsars detected in gamma-rays with the Fermi-LAT},
  author = {H. Laffon and D. A. Smith and L. Guillemot},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1502.03251},
  year   = {2019}
}

Comments

2014 Fermi Symposium proceedings - eConf C141020.1; 6 pages, 4 figures