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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…

The Large Area Telescope (LAT) on Fermi has detected ~150 gamma-ray pulsars, about a third of which were discovered in blind searches of the $\gamma$-ray data. Because the angular resolution of the LAT is relatively poor and blind searches…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-17 P. M. Saz Parkinson , A. Belfiore , P. Caraveo , A. De Luca , M. Marelli

In 8 years of operation, the Large Area Telescope (LAT) on the Fermi satellite has impacted our understanding of gamma-ray pulsars dramatically. The LAT now sees over two hundred pulsars: the largest class of GeV sources in the Milky Way.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-06-13 David A. Smith , Lucas Guillemot , Matthew Kerr , Cherry Ng , Ewan Barr

The Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) is a powerful pulsar detector, as demonstrated by the over one hundred objects in its second catalog of pulsars. Pass 8 is a new reconstruction and event selection strategy developed by the Fermi-LAT…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-14 H. Laffon , D. A. Smith , L. Guillemot

Since the launch of the Fermi Gamma-Ray Space Telescope, several hundred gamma-ray pulsars have been discovered, some being radio-loud and some radio-quiet with time-aligned radio and gamma-ray light curves. In the second Fermi Pulsar…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-03-17 O. Benli , J. Petri , Dipanjan Mitra

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

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

During its first 2 years of mission the Fermi-LAT instrument discovered more than 1,800 gamma-ray sources in the 100 MeV to 100 GeV range. Despite the application of advanced techniques to identify and associate the Fermi-LAT sources with…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-03-02 David Salvetti

We present evidence for $\gamma$-ray emission from a stacked population of 39 high-latitude globular clusters (GCs) not detected in the Fermi Point Source Catalog, likely attributable to populations of millisecond pulsars within them. In…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-10-17 Owen K. Henry , Timothy A. D. Paglione , Yuzhe Song , Joshua Tan , David Zurek , Vanessa Pinto

The 2nd Fermi-LAT pulsar catalog includes 117 gamma-ray pulsars, of which roughly one third are millisecond pulsars (MSPs) while the remaining two thirds split evenly into young radio-loud and radio-quiet pulsars. Although this large…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-12 Matthew Kerr , the Fermi-LAT Collaboration

The LOw-Frequency ARray (LOFAR) has recently conducted a survey (LOFAR Tied-Array All-sky Survey; LOTAAS) for pulsars in the Northern hemisphere that resulted in discoveries of 73 new pulsars. For the purpose of studying the properties of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-05-05 Qi-Wei Lu , Zhong-Xiang Wang , Yi Xing

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

The Fermi Gamma-Ray Space Telescope has discovered many gamma-ray pulsars, both as radio-loud objects and radio-quiet or radio-weak pulsars that have been identified through blind period searches. The latter presumably have gamma-ray beams…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2010-02-02 Marco Pierbattista , Isabelle Grenier , Alice Harding , Peter Gonthier

We report the discovery of nine previously unknown gamma-ray pulsars in a blind search of data from the Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT). The pulsars were found with a novel hierarchical search method originally developed for detecting…

Pulsars are powerful sources of radiation across the electromagnetic spectrum. This paper highlights some theoretical insights into non-thermal, magnetospheric pulsar gamma-ray radiation. These advances have been driven by NASA's Fermi…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-20 Matthew G. Baring

Some pulsars have their maximum observable energy output in the gamma-ray band, offering the possibility of using these high-energy photons as probes of the particle acceleration and interaction processes in pulsar magnetospheres. After an…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-23 D. J. Thompson

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

The Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) has revolutionized high-energy (HE) astronomy, and is making enormous contributions particularly to gamma-ray pulsar science. As a result of the many new pulsar discoveries, the gamma-ray pulsar…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2011-12-15 C. Venter , T. J. Johnson , A. K. Harding

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

With the large sample of young gamma-ray pulsars discovered by the Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT), population synthesis has become a powerful tool for comparing their collective properties with model predictions. We synthesised a pulsar…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-05 M. Pierbattista , I. A. Grenier , A. K. Harding , P. L. Gonthier