The Third Fermi Large Area Telescope Catalog of Gamma-ray Pulsars
SMITH, D.A
Laboratoire de Physique des Deux Infinis Bordeaux [LP2I - Bordeaux]
Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Bordeaux [Pessac] [LAB]
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Laboratoire de Physique des Deux Infinis Bordeaux [LP2I - Bordeaux]
Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Bordeaux [Pessac] [LAB]
SMITH, D.A
Laboratoire de Physique des Deux Infinis Bordeaux [LP2I - Bordeaux]
Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Bordeaux [Pessac] [LAB]
Laboratoire de Physique des Deux Infinis Bordeaux [LP2I - Bordeaux]
Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Bordeaux [Pessac] [LAB]
COGNARD, I
Laboratoire de Physique et Chimie de l'Environnement et de l'Espace [LPC2E]
Unité Scientifique de la Station de Nançay [USN]
Laboratoire de Physique et Chimie de l'Environnement et de l'Espace [LPC2E]
Unité Scientifique de la Station de Nançay [USN]
GUILLEMOT, L
Laboratoire de Physique et Chimie de l'Environnement et de l'Espace [LPC2E]
Unité Scientifique de la Station de Nançay [USN]
Laboratoire de Physique et Chimie de l'Environnement et de l'Espace [LPC2E]
Unité Scientifique de la Station de Nançay [USN]
THEUREAU, G
Laboratoire de Physique et Chimie de l'Environnement et de l'Espace [LPC2E]
Unité Scientifique de la Station de Nançay [USN]
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Laboratoire de Physique et Chimie de l'Environnement et de l'Espace [LPC2E]
Unité Scientifique de la Station de Nançay [USN]
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Ce document a été publié dans
The Astrophysical Journal. 2023, vol. 958, n° 2, p. 191
American Astronomical Society
Résumé en anglais
We present 294 pulsars found in GeV data from the Large Area Telescope (LAT) on the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope. Another 33 millisecond pulsars (MSPs) discovered in deep radio searches of LAT sources will likely reveal ...Lire la suite >
We present 294 pulsars found in GeV data from the Large Area Telescope (LAT) on the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope. Another 33 millisecond pulsars (MSPs) discovered in deep radio searches of LAT sources will likely reveal pulsations once phase-connected rotation ephemerides are achieved. A further dozen optical and/or X-ray binary systems co-located with LAT sources also likely harbor gamma-ray MSPs. This catalog thus reports roughly 340 gamma-ray pulsars and candidates, 10% of all known pulsars, compared to $\leq 11$ known before Fermi. Half of the gamma-ray pulsars are young. Of these, the half that are undetected in radio have a broader Galactic latitude distribution than the young radio-loud pulsars. The others are MSPs, with 6 undetected in radio. Overall, >235 are bright enough above 50 MeV to fit the pulse profile, the energy spectrum, or both. For the common two-peaked profiles, the gamma-ray peak closest to the magnetic pole crossing generally has a softer spectrum. The spectral energy distributions tend to narrow as the spindown power $\dot E$ decreases to its observed minimum near $10^{33}$ erg s$^{-1}$, approaching the shape for synchrotron radiation from monoenergetic electrons. We calculate gamma-ray luminosities when distances are available. Our all-sky gamma-ray sensitivity map is useful for population syntheses. The electronic catalog version provides gamma-ray pulsar ephemerides, properties and fit results to guide and be compared with modeling results.< Réduire
Mots clés en anglais
X-ray: binary
gamma ray
pulsar
energy spectrum
GeV
synchrotron radiation
sensitivity
pole
spectral energy distribution
GLAST
electron
optical
crossing
rotation
galaxy
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