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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 present timing solutions for eight binary millisecond pulsars (MSPs) discovered by searching unidentified Fermi-LAT source positions with the 327 MHz receiver of the Arecibo 305-m radio telescope. Five of the pulsars are "spiders" with…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-03-10 J. S. Deneva , P. S. Ray , F. Camilo , P. C. C. Freire , H. T. Cromartie , S. M. Ransom , E. Ferrara , M. Kerr , T. H. Burnett , P. M. Saz Parkinson

Understanding the formation and properties of relativistic jets from accreting compact objects has far-reaching implications in astrophysics. Transitional millisecond pulsars (tMSPs) - a class of neutron stars transitioning between radio…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-03-28 K. I. I. Koljonen , M. Linares , J. C. A. Miller-Jones

We describe the first X-ray observations of binary millisecond pulsars PSRs J0023+0923, J1810+1744, J2215+5135, and J2256-1024. All four are Fermi gamma-ray sources and three are 'black-widow' pulsars, with companions of mass < 0.1 solar…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 Peter Gentile , Maura McLaughlin , Mallory Roberts , Fernando Camilo , Jason Hessels , Matthew Kerr , Scott Ransom , Paul Ray , Ingrid Stairs

We present detailed analysis of the transient X-ray source 2XMMi J003833.3+402133 detected by XMM-Newton in January 2008 during a survey of M 31. The X-ray spectrum is well fitted by either a steep power law plus a blackbody model or a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-30 Joseph R. Callingham , Sean A. Farrell , Bryan M. Gaensler , Geraint F. Lewis , Matthew J. Middleton

The fourth Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) catalog (4FGL) contains 5064 $\gamma$-ray sources detected at high significance, but 26% of them still lack associations at other wavelengths. The SPT-SZ survey, conducted between 2008 and 2011…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-01-04 Lizhong Zhang , Joaquin D. Vieira , Marco Ajello , Matthew A. Malkan , Melanie A. Archipley , Joseph Capota , Allen Foster , Greg Madejski

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 low-mass X-ray binary (LMXB) system FIRST J102347.6+003841 hosts a newly born millisecond pulsar (MSP) PSR J1023+0038 that was revealed as the first and only known rotation-powered MSP in a quiescent LMXB. While the system is shown to…

Gamma-ray emission provides constraints on the non-thermal radiation processes at play in astrophysical particle accelerators. This allows both the nature of accelerated particles and the maximum energy that they can reach to be determined.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-11-06 Pauline Chambery , Marianne Lemoine-Goumard , Armelle Jardin-Blicq , Atreyee Sinha , J. Eagle

We report on the identification of the gamma-ray source 0FGL J20001.0+4352 listed in the Fermi bright source catalogue. This object, which has an observed 1-100 GeV flux of (7.8 +/- 1.2) x 10^{-9} ph cm^{-2} s^{-1} and is located close to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 L. Bassani , R. Landi , N. Masetti , P. Parisi , A. Bazzano , P. Ubertini

We are starting a project to find $\gamma$-ray millisecond pulsars (MSPs) among the unidentified sources detected by the Large Area Telescope (LAT) onboard the {Fermi Gamma-Ray Space Telescope (Fermi)}, by radio observations. The selection…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-03-04 Xuejie Dai , Zhongxiang Wang , Jithesh Vadakkumthani

Millisecond Pulsars are second most abundant source population discovered by the Fermi-LAT. They might contribute non-negligibly to the diffuse emission measured at high latitudes by Fermi-LAT, the IDGRB. Gamma-ray sources also contribute…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-11-05 F. Calore , M. Di Mauro , F. Donato

Using the 1.3m and 2.4m telescopes of the MDM Observatory, we identified the close companions of two eclipsing millisecond radio pulsars discovered by the Green Bank Telescope in searches of Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope sources, and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-22 Miao Li , Jules P. Halpern , John R. Thorstensen

The High Energy Stereoscopic System (H.E.S.S.) observatory has carried a deep survey of the Galactic plane, in the course of which the existence of a significant number of ($\sim$ 78) TeV $\gamma$-ray sources was confirmed, many of which…

We report the discovery of gamma-ray pulsations from the nearby isolated millisecond pulsar PSR J0030+0451 with the Large Area Telescope (LAT) on the \emph{Fermi} Gamma-ray Space Telescope (formerly GLAST). This discovery makes PSR…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2009-07-22 LAT Collaboration

3FGL J1544.6-1125 is a candidate transitional millisecond pulsar (tMSP). Similar to the well-established tMSPs - PSR J1023+0038, IGR J18245-2452, and XSS J12270-4859 -- 3FGL J1544.6-1125 shows $\gamma$-ray emission and discrete X-ray "low"…

The Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) provides advantages for radio pulsar searches by enabling efficient target selection. We can confidently point radio telescopes to the positions of Fermi unidentified gamma-ray sources that have a high…

We present multiwavelength observations of the persistent Fermi-LAT unidentified gamma-ray source 1FGL J1417.7-4407, showing it is likely to be associated with a newly discovered X-ray binary containing a massive neutron star (nearly 2…

The population of $\gamma$-ray emitting millisecond pulsars (MSPs) is studied by using Monte-Carlo techniques. We simulate the Galactic distributions of the MSPs, and apply the outer gap model for the $\gamma$-ray emission from each…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-02-22 J. Takata , Y. Wang , K. S. Cheng

B2013+370 and B2023+336 are two blazars at low-galactic latitude that were previously proposed to be the counterparts for the EGRET unidentified sources, 3EG J2016+3657 and 3EG J2027+3429. Gamma-ray emission associated with the EGRET…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-03 E. Kara , M. Errando , W. Max-Moerbeck , E. Aliu , M. Bottcher , P. Fortin , J. P. Halpern , R. Mukherjee , A. C. S. Readhead , J. L. Richards