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We compare population synthesis results for inner and outer magnetosphere emission models with the various characteristics measured in the first LAT pulsar catalogue for both the radio-loud and radio-weak or radio-quiet gamma-ray pulsars.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-27 Marco Pierbattista , Isabelle Grenier , Alice Harding , Peter L. Gonthier

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 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 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

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

(abridged) Thanks to the recent discovery by Fermi of about fifty new gamma-ray pulsars, it becomes possible to look for statistical properties of their pulsed high-energy emission, especially their light-curves and phase-resolved spectra.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-20 Jérôme Pétri

We explore a non-stationary outer gap scenario for gamma-ray emission process in pulsar magnetosphere. Electrons/positrons that migrate along the magnetic field line and enter the outer gap from the outer/inner boundaries activate the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-12-16 J. Takata , C. W. Ng , K. S. Cheng

We use Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope detections and upper limits on non-recycled pulsars obtained from the Large Area Telescope (LAT) to constrain how the gamma-ray luminosity L depends on the period P and the period derivative \dot{P}.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 B. B. P. Perera , M. A. McLaughlin , J. M. Cordes , M. Kerr , T. H. Burnett , A. K. Harding

Thanks to the huge amount of gamma-ray pulsar photons collected by the Fermi Large Area Telescope since June 2008, it is now possible to constrain gamma-ray geometrical models by comparing simulated and observed light-curve morphological…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-04-06 M. Pierbattista , A. K. Harding , P. L. Gonthier , I. A. Grenier

An interesting new high-energy pulsar sub-population is emerging following early discoveries of gamma-ray millisecond pulsars (MSPs) by the Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT). We present results from 3D emission modeling, including the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-11-20 C. Venter , A. K. Harding , L. Guillemot

We have simulated a Galactic population of young pulsars and compared with the Fermi LAT sample, constraining the birth properties, beaming and evolution of these spin-powered objects. Using quantitative tests of agreement with the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-20 Kyle P. Watters , Roger W. Romani

Context. More than one hundred GeV pulsars have been detected up to now by the LAT telescope on the Fermi gamma-ray observatory, showing peak energies around a few GeV. Current modelling proposes that the high energy emission comes from…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-11 Ioanna Arka , Guillaume Dubus

Inspired by increase of population of $\gamma$-ray emitting pulsars by the $Fermi$ telescope, we perform a population study for $\gamma$-ray emitting canonical pulsars. We use a Monte-Carlo technique to simulate the Galactic population of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-20 J. Takata , Y. Wang , K. S. Cheng

We demonstrate a method for quantitatively comparing gamma-ray pulsar light curves with magnetosphere beaming models. With the Fermi LAT providing many pulsar discoveries and high quality pulsar light curves for the brighter objects, such…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-03-13 Roger W. Romani , Kyle P. Watters

Millisecond pulsars (MSPs) are a growing class of gamma-ray emitters. Pulsed gamma-ray signals have been detected from more than 40 MSPs with the Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT). The wider radio beams and more compact magnetospheres of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-06-24 T. J. Johnson , C. Venter , A. K. Harding , L. Guillemot , D. A. Smith , M. Kramer , O. Celik , P. R. den Hartog , E. C. Ferrara , X. Hou , J. Lande , P. S. Ray

The prevalent view that the radio-loud gamma-ray pulsars have gamma-ray luminosities that exceed their radio luminosities by several orders of magnitude is based on the assumption that the decay with distance of their gamma-ray fluxes obeys…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-03-02 Houshang Ardavan

The Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) has observed more than a hundred of gamma-ray pulsars, about one third of which are radio-quiet, i.e. not detected at radio frequencies. The most of radio-loud pulsars are detected by Fermi LAT by using…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-11-27 G. I. Rubtsov , E. V. Sokolova

{\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

The dramatic increase in the number of known gamma-ray pulsars since the launch of the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope (formerly GLAST) offers the first opportunity to study a population of these high-energy objects. This catalog summarizes…

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

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
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