On the high energy pulsar population detected by Fermi
Abstract
The Large Area Telescope (LAT), Fermi's main instrument, is providing a new view of the local energetic pulsar population. In addition to identifying a pulsar origin of a large fraction of the bright unidentified Galactic EGRET sources, the LAT results provide a great opportunity to study a sizable population of high-energy pulsars. Correlations of their physical properties, such as the trend of the luminosity versus the rotational energy loss rate, help identify global features of the gamma-ray pulsar population. Several lines of evidence, including the light curve and spectral features, suggest that gamma-ray emission from the brightest pulsars arises largely in the outer magnetosphere.
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@article{arxiv.0912.3857,
title = {On the high energy pulsar population detected by Fermi},
author = {G. A. Caliandro and E. C. Ferrara and D. Parent and R. W. Romani},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0912.3857},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
2009 Fermi Symposium, eConf Proceedings C091122; a poster contribution