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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

All gamma-ray telescopes suffer from source confusion due to their inability to focus incident high-energy radiation, and the resulting background contamination can obscure the periodic emission from faint pulsars. In the context of the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-19 Matthew Kerr

The parsec-scale radio properties of blazars detected by the Large Area Telescope (LAT) on board the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope have been investigated using observations with the Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA). Comparisons between LAT…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2012-05-04 J. D. Linford , G. B. Taylor , R. W. Romani , J. F. Helmboldt , A. C. S. Readhead , R. Reeves , J. L. Richards

A direct search of $\gamma$-ray emission centered on multi-frequency selected candidates is a valuable complementary approach to the standard search adopted in current $\gamma$-ray Fermi-LAT catalogs. Our candidates are part of the 2WHSP…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-02-15 Bruno Arsioli , Yu-Ling Chang

Using the 100-m Effelsberg radio telescope operating at 1.36 GHz, we have performed a targeted radio pulsar survey of 289 unassociated gamma-ray sources discovered by the Large Area Telescope (LAT) aboard the Fermi satellite and published…

The Large Area Telescope (LAT) on board the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope routinely detects the highly dust-absorbed, reddened, and MeV-peaked flat spectrum radio quasar PKS 1830-211 (z=2.507). Its apparent isotropic gamma-ray luminosity…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-23 The Fermi LAT Collaboration , A. A. Abdo , M. Ackermann , M. Ajello , A. Allafort , M. A. Amin , L. Baldini , G. Barbiellini , D. Bastieri , K. Bechtol , R. Bellazzini , R. D. Blandford , E. Bonamente , A. W. Borgland , J. Bregeon , M. Brigida , R. Buehler , D. Bulmash , S. Buson , G. A. Caliandro , R. A. Cameron , P. A. Caraveo , E. Cavazzuti , C. Cecchi , E. Charles , C. C. Cheung , J. Chiang , G. Chiaro , S. Ciprini , R. Claus , J. Cohen-Tanugi , J. Conrad , R. H. D. Corbet , S. Cutini , F. D'Ammando , A. de Angelis , F. de Palma , C. D. Dermer , P. S. Drell , A. Drlica-Wagner , C. Favuzzi , J. Finke , W. B. Focke , Y. Fukazawa , P. Fusco , F. Gargano , D. Gasparrini , N. Gehrels , N. Giglietto , F. Giordano , M. Giroletti , T. Glanzman , I. A. Grenier , J. E. Grove , S. Guiriec , D. Hadasch , M. Hayashida , E. Hays , R. E. Hughes , Y. Inoue , M. S. Jackson , T. Jogler , G. Jòhannesson , A. S. Johnson , T. Kamae , J. Knödlseder , M. Kuss , J. Lande , S. Larsson , L. Latronico , F. Longo , F. Loparco , B. Lott , M. N. Lovellette , P. Lubrano , G. M. Madejski , M. N. Mazziotta , J. Mehault , P. F. Michelson , T. Mizuno , M. E. Monzani , A. Morselli , I. V. Moskalenko , S. Murgia , R. Nemmen , E. Nuss , M. Ohno , T. Ohsugi , D. Paneque , J. S. Perkins , M. Pesce-Rollins , F. Piron , G. Pivato , T. A. Porter , S. Rainò , R. Rando , M. Razzano , A. Reimer , O. Reimer , L. C. Reyes , S. Ritz , C. Romoli , M. Roth , P. M. Saz Parkinson , C. Sgrò , E. J. Siskind , G. Spandre , P. Spinelli , H. Takahashi , Y. Takeuchi , T. Tanaka , J. G. Thayer , J. B. Thayer , D. J. Thompson , L. Tibaldo , M. Tinivella , D. F. Torres , G. Tosti , E. Troja , V. Tronconi , T. L. Usher , J. Vandenbroucke , V. Vasileiou , G. Vianello , V. Vitale , A. P. Waite , M. Werner , B. L. Winer , K. S. Wood

Pulsars are rapidly-rotating, highly-magnetized neutron stars emitting radiation across the electromagnetic spectrum. Although there are more than 1800 known radio pulsars, until recently, only seven were observed to pulse in gamma rays and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2010-09-07 LAT Collaboration

We report the detection of the pulsed signal of the radio-quiet magnetar-like pulsar PSR J1846-0258 in the high-energy \gr-ray data of the Fermi Large Area Telescope (Fermi LAT). We produced phase-coherent timing models exploiting RXTE PCA…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-01-08 L. Kuiper , W. Hermsen , A. Dekker

Pulsars are powerful sources of radiation across the electromagnetic spectrum. This paper highlights some theoretical insights into non-thermal, magnetospheric pulsar gamma-ray radiation. These advances have been driven by NASA's Fermi…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-20 Matthew G. Baring

The Fermi Large Area Telescope (Fermi-LAT) has recently revealed a large population of gamma-ray emitting millisecond pulsars (MSPs) in our Galaxy. We aim to infer the properties of the Galactic population of gamma-ray emitting MSPs from…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-15 Tristan Grégoire , Jürgen Knödlseder

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

The Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) is a powerful pulsar detector, as demonstrated by the over one hundred objects in its second catalog of pulsars. Pass 8 is a new reconstruction and event selection strategy developed by the Fermi-LAT…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-14 H. Laffon , D. A. Smith , L. Guillemot

Blazar flares seen by the Fermi Gamma-Ray Space Telescope Large Area Telescope (Fermi LAT) are often followed up by Target of Opportunity (ToO) requests to the Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory (Swift). Using flares identified in the daily…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-01-29 Christina D. Moraitis , D. J. Thompson

Weak gravitational lensing, or weak lensing, is one of the most powerful probes for dark matter and dark energy science, although it faces increasing challenges in controlling systematic uncertainties as \edit{the statistical errors become…

The sensitivity of the Large Area Telescope (LAT) aboard the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope allows detection of thousands of new gamma-ray sources and detailed characterization of the spectra and variability of bright sources.…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-18 Matthew Kerr

A year after \emph{Fermi} was launched, the number of known gamma-ray pulsars has increased dramatically. For the first time, a sizable population of pulsars has been discovered in gamma-ray data alone. For the first time, millisecond…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2009-12-21 L. Guillemot , Fermi LAT Collaboration

The Large Area Telescope (LAT) on board the Fermi satellite has detected ~120 pulsars above 100 MeV. While most gamma-ray pulsars have spectra that are well modeled by a power law with an exponential cut-off at around a few GeV, some show…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-13 Pablo M. Saz Parkinson

We report on preliminary results from the Fermi High-Latitude Extended Sources Catalog (FHES), a comprehensive search for spatially extended gamma-ray sources at high Galactic latitudes ($|b|>5^\circ$) based on data from the Fermi Large…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-14 Matthew Wood , Jonathan Biteau , Regina Caputo , Mattia Di Mauro , Manuel Meyer

We analyze the contribution of gamma-ray pulsars from the first Fermi-Large Area Telescope (LAT) catalogue to the local flux of cosmic-ray electrons and positrons (e+e-). We present new distance estimates for all Fermi gamma-ray pulsars,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2010-02-15 Leo Gendelev , Stefano Profumo , Michael Dormody

{\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