Eight Gamma Ray Pulsars Discovered with Blind Frequency Searches of Fermi-LAT

Details Eight Gamma Ray Pulsars Discovered with Blind Frequency Searches of Fermi-LAT Eight Gamma Ray Pulsars Discovered with Blind Frequency Searches of Fermi-LAT

Feb 2010

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2010head...11.2302j&link_type=abstract

American Astronomical Society, HEAD meeting #11, #23.02; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 41, p.694

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Since its launch in June 2008, the LAT instrument on the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope has greatly added to our knowledge and understanding of gamma-ray pulsars. Its fine point spread function and large effective area make it the first gamma-ray instrument capable of discovering a new population of gamma-ray pulsars, and our time-differencing method has allowed us to do extensive searches across the sky with modest computational resources. We present results on 24 pulsars discovered in blind frequency searches of LAT data. We also present associated radio limits and multiwavelength information, including those for a young pulsar coincident with the extended TeV source HESS J1023-575, which has been associated with the Westerlund-2 star cluster.

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