Discovery of Pulsed $γ$-rays from PSR J0034-0534 with the Fermi LAT: A Case for Co-located Radio and $γ$-ray Emission Regions

Details Discovery of Pulsed $γ$-rays from PSR J0034-0534 with the Fermi LAT: A Case for Co-located Radio and $γ$-ray Emission Regions Discovery of Pulsed $γ$-rays from PSR J0034-0534 with the Fermi LAT: A Case for Co-located Radio and $γ$-ray Emission Regions

2010-02-12

arxiv.org/abs/1002.2607v1

Astrophysical Journal 712 (2010) 957-963

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena

20 pages, 3 figures, 2 tables. Accepted for publication in ApJ

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Millisecond pulsars (MSPs) have been firmly established as a class of gamma-ray emitters via the detection of pulsations above 0.1 GeV from eight MSPs by the Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT). Using thirteen months of LAT data significant gamma-ray pulsations at the radio period have been detected from the MSP PSR J0034-0534, making it the ninth clear MSP detection by the LAT. The gamma-ray light curve shows two peaks separated by 0.274$\pm$0.015 in phase which are very nearly aligned with the radio peaks, a phenomenon seen only in the Crab pulsar until now. The $\geq$0.1 GeV spectrum of this pulsar is well fit by an exponentially cutoff power law with a cutoff energy of 1.8$\pm 0.6\pm$0.1 GeV and a photon index of 1.5$\pm 0.2\pm$0.1, first errors are statistical and second are systematic. The near-alignment of the radio and gamma-ray peaks strongly suggests that the radio and gamma-ray emission regions are co-located and both are the result of caustic formation.

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