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Millisecond pulsars (MSPs) have been established as a class of high-energy ($\geq$0.1 GeV) emitters with the Large Area Telescope (LAT) aboard the \emph{Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope}. Most MSP gamma-ray light curves display sharp peaks…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2012-09-19 T. J. Johnson

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…

The Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope (Fermi) was launched on June 11, 2008 and began its first year sky survey on August 11, 2008. The Large Area Telescope (LAT), a wide field-of-view pair-conversion telescope covering the energy range from…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2010-11-30 Peter F. Michelson , William B. Atwood , Steven Ritz

The gamma-ray survey of the sky by the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope offers both opportunities and challenges for multiwavelength and multi-messenger studies. Gamma-ray bursts, pulsars, binary sources, flaring Active Galactic Nuclei, and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-13 D. J. Thompson

Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) has recently detected 8 gamma-ray millisecond pulsars (MSPs), providing an unprecedented opportunity to probe the magnetospheres of these low-spin-down pulsars. We performed 3D emission modeling, including…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2009-11-26 C. Venter , A. K. Harding , L. Guillemot

We report the detection of pulsed gamma-rays for PSRs J0631+1036, J0659+1414, J0742-2822, J1420-6048, J1509-5850 and J1718-3825 using the Large Area Telescope (LAT) on board the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope (formerly known as GLAST).…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2010-01-06 The Fermi LAT collaboration , the Fermi Pulsar Timing Consortium

The seven known gamma-ray pulsars represent a very small fraction of the more than 1000 presently known radio pulsars, yet they can give us valuable information about pulsar particle acceleration and energetics. Although the theory of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Alice K. Harding

Pulsars are rapidly-rotating neutron stars born out of the death of stars. A diffuse nebula is formed when particles stream from these neutron stars and interact with the ambient medium. These pulsar wind nebulae (PWNe) are visible across…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-01-28 Joshua Lande

Recent results from the PAMELA satellite indicate the presence of a large flux of positrons (relative to electrons) in the cosmic ray spectrum between approximately 10 and 100 GeV. As annihilating dark matter particles in many models are…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-04-15 Dan Hooper , Pasquale Blasi , Pasquale Dario Serpico

{\it Fermi}-LAT has detected pulsed gamma-ray emissions with high confidences from more than 40 millisecond pulsars (MSPs). Here we study the phase-averaged gamma-ray properties of MSPs by using revised version of a self-consistent outer…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-02-22 Z. J. Jiang , S. B. Chen , X. Li , L. Zhang

Following its launch in June 2008, the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope (Fermi) began a sky survey in August. The Large Area Telescope (LAT) on Fermi in 3 months produced a deeper and better-resolved map of the gamma-ray sky than any…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2009-07-06 A. A. Abdo

The Large Area Telescope (LAT) on board the Fermi satellite has detected ~120 pulsars above 100 MeV. While most gamma-ray pulsars have spectra that are well modeled by a power law with an exponential cut-off at around a few GeV, some show…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-13 Pablo M. Saz Parkinson

Significant gamma-ray pulsations have been detected from ~40 millisecond pulsars (MSPs) using 3 years of sky-survey data from the Fermi LAT and radio timing solutions from across the globe. We have fit the radio and gamma-ray pulse profiles…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-14 T. J. Johnson , A. K. Harding , C. Venter , J. E. Grove

Pulsed high energy radiation from pulsars is not yet completely understood. In this paper, we use the 3D self-consistent annular gap model to study light curves for both young and millisecond pulsars observed by the Fermi Gamma-ray Space…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2010-08-23 Yuan-Jie Du , G. J. Qiao , J. L. Han , K. J. Lee , R. X. Xu

Over the last fifty years since the discovery of pulsars, our understanding of where and how pulsars emit the radiation we observe has undergone significant revision. The location and mechanisms of high-energy radiation are intimately tied…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-08-22 Alice K. Harding

The Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) data have confirmed the pulsed emission from all six high-confidence gamma-ray pulsars previously known from the EGRET observations. We report results obtained from the analysis of 13 months of LAT data…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-19 Fermi LAT Collaboration , A. A. Abdo

The Large Area Telescope on the Fermi gamma-ray Space Telescope provides unprecedented sensitivity for all-sky monitoring of gamma-ray activity. It has detected a few Galactic sources, including 2 gamma-ray binaries and a microquasar. In…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-11-15 Sylvain Chaty

Gamma-ray photons from young pulsars allow the deepest insight into the properties and interactions of high-energy particles with magnetic and photon fields in a pulsar magnetosphere. Measurements with the Compton Gamma-Ray Observatory have…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-09-29 Gottfried Kanbach

There are now a half dozen young pulsars detected in high energy photons by the Compton GRO, showing a variety of emission efficiencies and pulse profiles. We present here a calculation of the pattern of high energy emission on the sky in a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-22 Roger W. Romani , I. -A. Yadigaroglu

The Fermi Gamma-Ray Space Telescope, successfully launched on June 11th, 2008, is the next generation satellite experiment for high-energy gamma-ray astronomy. The main instrument, the Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT), with a wide field of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-13 Christine Meurer