Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2005-03-22
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
11 pages, proceedings of talk given at "Young Neutron Stars and Supernova Remnants" session of 35th COSPAR meeting held in Par
Scientific paper
10.1016/j.asr.2005.03.129
At the end of the EGRET mission, only 6-8 Galactic sources had been identified as young pulsars. Since then, several energetic pulsars have been discovered in EGRET error boxes along the Galactic plane, as well as several pulsar wind nebulae from which pulsations have not yet been discovered. Some of these nebulae are associated with moderately variable EGRET sources, suggesting that the gamma-ray emission might be coming from the nebula rather than from the pulsar magnetosphere. There is also a population of unidentified EGRET sources at mid-Galactic latitudes which have been proposed to be either nearby middle-aged pulsars or millisecond pulsars. I review the current status of observational studies of pulsars associated with EGRET sources and what they suggest the upcoming AGILE and GLAST gamma-ray missions might observe.
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