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The Fermi LAT has released a list of the most significant 205 sources with three months of Fermi data (Bright Source List). The Milagro Gamma-Ray Observatory is sensitive to gamma rays above 100 GeV with a peak sensitivity between 10 and 30…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2010-01-22 Andrew J. Smith

The sheer number of new gamma-ray pulsar discoveries by the Fermi Large Area Telescope since 2008, combined with the quality of new multi-frequency data, has caused a revolution in the field of high-energy rotation-powered pulsars. These…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-03-28 Christo Venter , Alice K. Harding , Isabelle Grenier

We report the detection of gamma-ray pulsations (> 0.1 GeV) from PSR J2229+6114 and PSR J1048-5832, the latter having been detected as a low-significance pulsar by EGRET. Data in the gamma-ray band were acquired by the Large Area Telescope…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2009-12-04 Fermi LAT collaboration , Fermi Pulsar Timing Consortium

The Vela pulsar is the brightest persistent source in the GeV sky and thus is the traditional first target for new gamma-ray observatories. We report here on initial Fermi Large Area Telescope observations during verification phase pointed…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 A. A. Abdo

The Fermi-Large Area Telescope (LAT) First Source Catalog (1FGL) was released in February 2010 and the Fermi-LAT 2-Year Source Catalog (2FGL) appeared in April 2012, based on data from 24 months of operation. Since their releases, many…

Geminga is the second brightest persistent source in the GeV gamma-ray sky. Discovered in 1975 by SAS-2 mission, it was identified as a pulsar only in the 90s, when ROSAT detected the 237 ms X-ray periodicity, that was later also found by…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2009-12-31 M. Razzano , D. Dumora , F. Gargano

High-energy gamma rays are a valuable tool for studying particle acceleration and radiation in the magnetospheres of energetic pulsars. The seven or more pulsars seen by instruments on the Compton Gamma Ray Observatory (CGRO) show that: the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 David J. Thompson

The EGRET telescope on the Compton Gamma-Ray Observatory detected over 200 sources and the majority of these are still unidentified. At least three subpopulations of EGRET sources have been associated with the Galaxy: bright sources lying…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 A. K. Harding , P. L. Gonthier , I. A. Grenier , C. A. Perrot

Classical Novae were revealed as a surprise source of gamma-rays in Fermi LAT observations. During the first 8 years since the LAT was launched, 6 novae in total have been detected to > 5 sigma in gamma-rays, in contrast to the 69…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-04-03 Paul J. Morris , Garret Cotter , Anthony M. Brown , Paula M. Chadwick

We describe an image-based method that uses two radio criteria, compactness and spectral index, to identify promising pulsar candidates among Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) unassociated sources. These criteria are applied to those radio…

An excess of $\gamma$-ray emission from the Galactic Center (GC) region with respect to predictions based on a variety of interstellar emission models and $\gamma$-ray source catalogs has been found by many groups using data from the {\it…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-10-31 LAT Collaboration

Binary systems are a well-established subclass of gamma-ray sources. The high mass X-ray binary pulsar 1A~0535+262 has been considered to be a possible gamma-ray emitter for a long time, although former gamma-ray searches using…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-02-22 X. Hou , W. Zhang , D. F. Torres , L. Ji , J. Li

We present a modified scenario of gamma-ray emission from pulsars within the framework of polar cap models. Our model incorporates possible acceleration of electron-positron pairs created in magnetospheres, and their subsequent contribution…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 B. Rudak , J. Dyks

In more than four years of observation the Large Area Telescope on board the Fermi satellite has identified pulsed $\gamma$-ray emission from more than 80 young pulsars, providing light curves with high statistics. Fitting the observations…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-02-11 M. Pierbattista , A. K. Harding , I. A. Grenier , T. J. Johnson , P. A. Caraveo , M. Kerr , P. L. Gonthier

The latest source catalog of the Fermi-LAT telescope contains more than 7000 $\gamma$-ray sources at GeV energies, with the two dominant source classes thought to be blazars and rotation-powered pulsars. Our target is the identification of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-02-09 Martin G. F. Mayer , Werner Becker

Since 2008 August the Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) has provided continuous coverage of the gamma-ray sky yielding more than 5000 gamma-ray sources, but 54% of the detected sources remain with no certain or unknown association with a low…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-12-01 Chiaro G. , Kovacevic M. , La Mura G

We have discovered five millisecond pulsars (MSPs) in a survey of 14 unidentified Fermi-LAT sources in the southern sky using the Parkes radio telescope. PSRs J0101-6422, J1514-4946, and J1902-5105 reside in binaries, while PSRs J1658-5324…

The Fermi space telescope has detected over 100 pulsars. These discoveries have ushered in a new era of pulsar astrophysics at gamma-ray energies. Gamma-ray pulsars, regardless of whether they are young, old, radio-quiet etc, all exhibit a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-13 A. McCann

Although not designed primarily as a polarimeter, the \textit{Fermi}-Large Area Telescope (LAT) has the potential to detect high degrees of linear polarization from some of the brightest gamma-ray sources. To achieve the needed accuracy in…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-14 Matteo Giomi , Rolf Bühler , Carmelo Sgrò , Francesco Longo , William Atwood

The high sensitivity of the Fermi-LAT (Large Area Telescope) offers the first opportunity to study faint and extended GeV sources such as pulsar wind nebulae (PWNe). After one year of observation the LAT detected and identified three pulsar…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2011-01-28 The Fermi LAT Collaboration , Pulsar Timing Consortium