The Einstein@Home Gamma-Ray Pulsar Survey II. Source Selection, Spectral Analysis and Multi-wavelength Follow-up
Abstract
We report on the analysis of 13 gamma-ray pulsars discovered in the Einstein@Home blind search survey using Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) Pass 8 data. The 13 new gamma-ray pulsars were discovered by searching 118 unassociated LAT sources from the third LAT source catalog (3FGL), selected using the Gaussian Mixture Model (GMM) machine learning algorithm on the basis of their gamma-ray emission properties being suggestive of pulsar magnetospheric emission. The new gamma-ray pulsars have pulse profiles and spectral properties similar to those of previously-detected young gamma-ray pulsars. Follow-up radio observations have revealed faint radio pulsations from two of the newly-discovered pulsars, and enabled us to derive upper limits on the radio emission from the others, demonstrating that they are likely radio-quiet gamma-ray pulsars. We also present results from modeling the gamma-ray pulse profiles and radio profiles, if available, using different geometric emission models of pulsars. The high discovery rate of this survey, despite the increasing difficulty of blind pulsar searches in gamma rays, suggests that new systematic surveys such as presented in this article should be continued when new LAT source catalogs become available.
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@article{arxiv.1712.05395,
title = {The Einstein@Home Gamma-Ray Pulsar Survey II. Source Selection, Spectral Analysis and Multi-wavelength Follow-up},
author = {J. Wu and C. J. Clark and H. J. Pletsch and L. Guillemot and T. J. Johnson and P. Torne and D. J. Champion and J. Deneva and P. S. Ray and D. Salvetti and M. Kramer and C. Aulbert and C. Beer and B. Bhattacharyya and O. Bock and F. Camilo and I. Cognard and A. Cuéllar and H. B. Eggenstein and H. Fehrmann and E. C. Ferrara and M. Kerr and B. Machenschalk and S. M. Ransom and S. Sanpa-Arsa and K. Wood},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1712.05395},
year = {2018}
}
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Accepted for publication in ApJ