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The Large Area Telescope on the recently launched Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope (formerly GLAST), with its large field of view and effective area, combined with its excellent timing capabilities, is poised to revolutionize the field of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-08-14 P. M. Saz Parkinson

The Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) has revealed a mysterious extended excess of GeV gamma-ray emission around the Galactic Center, which can potentially be explained by unresolved emission from a population of pulsars, particularly…

Our understanding of the $\gamma$-ray sky has improved dramatically in the past decade, however, the unresolved $\gamma$-ray background (UGRB) still has a potential wealth of information about the faintest $\gamma$-ray sources pervading the…

Pulsars are among the prime targets for the Large Area Telescope (LAT) aboard the recently launched Fermi observatory. The LAT will study the gamma-ray Universe between 20 MeV and 300 GeV with unprecedented detail. Increasing numbers of…

The Fermi Large Area Telescope, in collaboration with several groups from the radio community, have had marvellous success at uncovering new gamma-ray millisecond pulsars (MSPs). In fact, MSPs now make up a sizable fraction of the total…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-19 C. Venter , A. K. Harding , T. J. Johnson

The $\textit{Fermi}$-LAT Collaboration recently presented a new catalog of gamma-ray sources located within the $40^{\circ} \times 40^{\circ}$ region around the Galactic Center~(Ajello et al. 2017) -- the Second Fermi Inner Galaxy (2FIG)…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-10-31 Richard Bartels , Dan Hooper , Tim Linden , Siddharth Mishra-Sharma , Nicholas L. Rodd , Benjamin R. Safdi , Tracy R. Slatyer

This catalog summarizes 117 high-confidence > 0.1 GeV gamma-ray pulsar detections using three years of data acquired by the Large Area Telescope (LAT) on the Fermi satellite. Half are neutron stars discovered using LAT data, through…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-09-25 LAT collaboration

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

We apply a likelihood analysis to pulsar detections, pulsar upper limits, and diffuse background measurements from the OSSE and EGRET instruments on the Compton Gamma Ray Observatory to constrain the luminosity law for gamma-ray pulsars and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 M. A. McLaughlin , J. M. Cordes

It is difficult to discover pulsars via their gamma-ray emission because current instruments typically detect fewer than one photon per million rotations. This creates a significant computing challenge for isolated pulsars, where the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-10-23 L. Nieder , B. Allen , C. J. Clark , H. J. Pletsch

When it comes to identifying or to characterizing gamma-ray sources, X-ray observations are of paramount importance. Correlated X-and-gamma-ray flux variations are a powerful identification tool, if the gamma-ray source is unidentified, or…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2009-12-25 Patrizia A. Caraveo

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

In this thesis, we introduce novel methods for analyzing pulsar populations using a variety of mathematical techniques. These tools-particularly graph theory-have been thoroughly validated in advanced mathematics, enabling us to overcome…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-10-23 C. R. García

We present precise phase-connected pulse timing solutions for 16 gamma-ray-selected pulsars recently discovered using the Large Area Telescope (LAT) on the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope plus one very faint radio pulsar (PSR J1124-5916)…

Using stellar luminosity functions derived from ROSAT data, the contributions of Galactic stars to the diffuse X-ray background are calculated for ROSAT PSPC energy bands. The model follows that of Guillout et al. (1996), but uses ROSAT…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 K. D. Kuntz , S. L. Snowden

We have performed a Monte-Calro simulation for Galactic population of pulsars and for the $\gamma$-ray observations. We apply outer gap model for the $\gamma$-ray emission process, and study the radiation characteristics as a function of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-27 J. Takata , Y. Wang , K. S. Cheng

The luminosity distribution of Galactic radio pulsars is believed to be log-normal in form. Applying this functional form to populations of pulsars in globular clusters, we employ Bayesian methods to explore constraints on the mean and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 Jayanth Chennamangalam , D. R. Lorimer , Ilya Mandel , Manjari Bagchi

The diffuse Galactic $\gamma$-ray emission (DGE) provides a valuable probe for investigating the cosmic ray propagation and interactions within our Galactic environment. Recent observations have demonstrated systematic excesses of DGE…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-08-22 Jiayin He , Houdun Zeng , Yi Zhang , Xiaoyuan Huang , Qiang Yuan

We report on a likelihood stacking search for gamma-ray pulsars at 362 high-latitude locations that coincide with known radio pulsar positions. We observe a stacked signal conservatively 2.5$\sigma$ over the background. Stacking their…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-08-04 Yuzhe Song , Timothy A. D. Paglione , Joshua Tan , Charles Lee-Georgescu , Danisbel Herrera

Studies of the Galactic population of radio pulsars have shown that their luminosity distribution appears to be log-normal in form. We investigate some of the consequences that occur when one applies this functional form to populations of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2013-04-08 Jayanth Chennamangalam , D. R. Lorimer , Ilya Mandel , Manjari Bagchi