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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

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

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

The nine millisecond pulsars (MSPs) that have now been detected by Fermi-LAT are providing an excellent opportunity to probe the emission geometry of these ancient compact objects. As they are radio-loud, one may use the relative phase lags…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2009-12-15 C. Venter , A. K. Harding , L. Guillemot

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 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

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 gamma rays have been detected with the Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) from more than 20 millisecond pulsars (MSPs), some of which were discovered in radio observations of bright, unassociated LAT sources. We have fit the radio and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2011-11-04 Tyrel J. Johnson , Alice K. Harding , Christo Venter

We present a summary of gamma-ray millisecond pulsar (MSP) observations with the Fermi Large Area Telescope. The radio and gamma-ray light curves of these MSPs have been modeled in the framework of the retarded vacuum dipole magnetic field.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-14 Tyrel J. Johnson , Christo Venter , Alice K. Harding , Lucas Guillemot

We have simulated a population of young spin-powered pulsars and computed the beaming pattern and lightcurves for the three main geometrical models: polar cap emission, two-pole caustic ("slot gap") emission and outer magnetosphere…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 Kyle P. Watters , Roger W. Romani , Patrick Weltevrede , Simon Johnston

This thesis research focusses on the study of the young and energetic isolated ordinary pulsar population detected by the Fermi gamma-ray space telescope. We compared the model expectations of four emission models and the LAT data. We found…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-09-25 Marco Pierbattista

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

We present the influence of the special relativistic effects of aberration and light travel time delay on pulsar high-energy lightcurves and polarization characteristics predicted by three models: the two-pole caustic model, the outer gap…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 J. Dyks , A. K. Harding , B. Rudak

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

We present linear polarization characteristics of pulsar radiation as predicted by two models of high-energy radiation from extended regions in the outer magnetosphere: the recently proposed two-pole caustic model, and the outer gap model.

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 J. Dyks , A. K. Harding , B. Rudak

Since its launch in 2008, the Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) has detected over 200 -ray pulsars above 100 MeV. This population of pulsars is characterised by a rich diversity of light curve morphologies. Researchers have been using both…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-12-25 M. C. Bezuidenhout , C. Venter , A. S. Seyffert , A. K. Harding

The Large Area Telescope aboard the Fermi spacecraft has detected more than 200 $\gamma$-ray pulsars since its launch in 2008. By concurrently fitting standard geometric model light curves onto Fermi and radio data, researchers have…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-08-30 M. C. Bezuidenhout , C. Venter , A. S. Seyffert , A. K. Harding

Gamma-ray emission from pulsars is thought to arise from accelerating regions in pulsar's outer magnetosphere. The shape of the light curves is thus sensitive to the details of the magnetic geometry of the magnetosphere. In this work, we…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2009-11-03 Xue-Ning Bai , Anatoly Spitkovsky

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

The light curves and spectral properties of more than 200 $\gamma$-ray pulsars have been measured in unsurpassed detail in the eight years since the launch of the hugely successful Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) $\gamma$-ray mission. We…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-02-20 Monica Barnard , Christo Venter , Alice K. Harding
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