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Observations and Modeling of Gamma-ray Millisecond Pulsars seen with the Fermi LAT

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena 2019-08-14 v1

Abstract

We present a summary of gamma-ray millisecond pulsar (MSP) observations with the Fermi Large Area Telescope. The radio and gamma-ray light curves of these MSPs have been modeled in the framework of the retarded vacuum dipole magnetic field. Likelihood fitting of the radio and gamma-ray light curves with geometric emission models allows us to give model-dependent confidence contours for the viewing geometry in these systems which are complementary to those from polarization measurements.

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@article{arxiv.1012.3635,
  title  = {Observations and Modeling of Gamma-ray Millisecond Pulsars seen with the Fermi LAT},
  author = {Tyrel J. Johnson and Christo Venter and Alice K. Harding and Lucas Guillemot},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1012.3635},
  year   = {2019}
}

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4 pages, 2 figures, to appear in the proceedings of the Pulsar 2010 Conference, Sardinia, Italy, 10-15 October 2010