APT2 - Extreme Properties of Neutron Stars Observations and Theory |
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Speaker |
Smith, David A. |
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for the Fermi LAT collaboration |
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Talk Title |
Pulsars in the Fermi Era |
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Abstract |
The one-year survey of the GeV gamma-ray sky with the Large Area Telescope on the Fermi satellite began in August 2008, two months after launch. Nearly fifty gamma-ray pulsars have been detected so far. These include young radio pulsars that suffer rotational instabilities as electromagnetic braking slows them down, and are the focus of an ambitious timing campaign conducted by radio and X-ray astronomers for Fermi. They also include a growing number of millisecond pulsars. I will discuss the unpulsed detection of the globular cluster 47 Tucanae in this context. Finally, they include 15 pulsars discovered through a "blind period search" for gamma-ray pulsations. Some properties of the gamma-ray pulsars will be presented. |
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