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Transitional millisecond pulsars (tMSPs) are neutron-star systems that alternate between a rotation-powered radio millisecond pulsar state and an accretion-disk-dominated low-mass X-ray binary (LMXB)-like state on multi-year timescales.…

In the last few years, over 43 millisecond radio pulsars have been discovered by targeted searches of unidentified gamma-ray sources found by the Fermi Gamma-Ray Space Telescope. A large fraction of these millisecond pulsars are in compact…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-15 R. P. Breton , M. H. van Kerkwijk , M. S. E. Roberts , J. W. T. Hessels , F. Camilo , M. A. McLaughlin , S. M. Ransom , P. S. Ray , I. H. Stairs

We have conducted a systematic survey for the X-ray properties of millisecond pulsars (MSPs). Currently, there are 47 MSPs with confirmed X-ray detections. We have also placed the upper limits for the X-ray emission from the other 36 MSPs…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-09-05 Jongsu Lee , C. Y. Hui , J. Takata , A. K. H. Kong , P. H. T. Tam , K. S. Cheng

We present a large sample of high-precision, coherently-dedispersed polarization profiles of millisecond pulsars (MSPs) at frequencies between 410 and 1414 MHz. These data include the first polarimetric observations of several of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 I. H. Stairs , S. E. Thorsett , F. Camilo

The light curves of gamma-ray pulsars detected by the Fermi Large Area Telescope show great variety in profile shape and position relative to their radio profiles. Such diversity hints at distinct underlying magnetospheric and/or emission…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-11-10 M. Breed , C. Venter , A. K. Harding , T. J. Johnson

We present the most extensive high-time resolution multi-band campaign to date on the candidate transitional millisecond pulsar (tMSP) 3FGL J1544.6-1125 in the sub-luminous disk state, with coordinated observations from the radio to the…

Over the past six years, the Fermi Large Area Telescope has detected more than 150 gamma-ray pulsars, discovering a variety of light curve trends and classes. Such diversity hints at distinct underlying magnetospheric and/or emission…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-04-28 M. Breed , C. Venter , A. K. Harding , T. J. Johnson

Gamma-ray observations have shown pulsars to be efficient converters of rotational energy into GeV photons and it is of wide-ranging interest to determine their contribution to the gamma-ray background. We arrive at flux predictions from…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-01-26 Ryan M. O'Leary , Matthew D. Kistler , Matthew Kerr , Jason Dexter

High-energy gamma rays are a valuable tool for studying particle acceleration and radiation in the magnetospheres of energetic pulsars. The six or more pulsars seen by CGRO/EGRET show that: the light curves usually have double-peak…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 David J. Thompson

The GeV light curve of a pulsar is an important probe to detect acceleration regions in its magnetosphere. Motivated by the recent reports on the observations of pulsars by {\it Fermi} Large Area Telescope (LAT), we restudy the two-pole…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-11-20 J. Fang , L. Zhang

Millisecond pulsar (MSP) binaries are unique laboratories for studying matter and radiation under extreme conditions that are unattainable on Earth. Recent detections of optical millisecond pulsations from three systems in distinct…

Millisecond pulsars represent an evolutionarily distinct group among rotation-powered pulsars. Outside the radio band, the soft X-ray range ($\sim 0.1$--10 keV) is most suitable for studying radiative mechanisms operating in these…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Vyacheslav E. Zavlin

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…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2009-12-22 G. A. Caliandro , E. C. Ferrara , D. Parent , R. W. Romani

Measurement of distances and moments of inertia of pulsars must be useful, for instance, for three-dimensional mapping of the dispersion and rotation measures, constraining the nuclear equation of state, etc. The distances and moments of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-10-14 Andrei Gruzinov

We investigate the shapes of \gamma-ray pulsar light curves using 3D pulsar magnetosphere models of finite conductivity. These models, covering the entire spectrum of solutions between vacuum and force-free magnetospheres, for the first…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-05 Constantinos Kalapotharakos , Alice K. Harding , Demosthenes Kazanas , Ioannis Contopoulos

Pulsars play a crucial astrophysical role as the highly energetic compact radio, X-ray, and gamma-ray sources. Our previous works show that the radio pulsars found as the pulsing gamma sources by the Large Area Telescope (LAT) on the board…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-08-29 I. F. Malov , M. A. Timirkeeva

We discuss $\gamma$-ray emissions from the outer gap accelerators of middle-aged pulsars for part of the series of our studies. A two-dimensional electrodynamic model is used to solve the distribution of accelerating electric fields with…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 J. Takata , H. -K. Chang

Pulsars are the most numerous class of Galactic gamma-ray sources detected by the Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT). Young pulsars occasionally experience sudden timing discontinuities called glitches, characterized by rapid changes in…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-01-08 Giovanni Cozzolongo , Alessio Fiori , Massimiliano Razzano , Pablo M. Saz Parkinson

We have used millisecond pulsars (MSPs) from the southern High Time Resolution Universe (HTRU) intermediate latitude survey area to simulate the distribution and total population of MSPs in the Galaxy. Our model makes use of the scale…

Identifying as many gamma-ray pulsars as possible in the Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) data helps test pulsar emission models by comparing predicted and observed properties for a large, varied sample with as little selection bias as…