Observations of Spin-Powered Pulsars with the AGILE Gamma-Ray Telescope

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Dec 2008

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2008aipc.1085..207p&link_type=abstract

HIGH ENERGY GAMMA-RAY ASTRONOMY: Proceedings of the 4th International Meeting on High Energy Gamma-Ray Astronomy. AIP Conferenc

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astronomy

Pulsars, X- And Gamma-Ray Telescopes And Instrumentation, Neutron Stars

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AGILE is a small gamma-ray astronomy satellite mission of the Italian Space Agency dedicated to high-energy astrophysics launched in 2007 April. It provides large sky exposure levels (>~109 cm2 s per year on the Galactic Plane) with sensitivity peaking at E~400 MeV (and simultaneous X-ray monitoring in the 18-60 keV band) where the bulk of pulsar energy output is typically released. Its ~1 μs is absolute time tagging capability makes it perfectly suited for the study of gamma-ray pulsars following up on the CGRO/EGRET heritage. In this paper we summarize the timing results obtained during the first year of AGILE observations of the known gamma-ray pulsars Vela, Crab, Geminga and B 1706-4. AGILE collected a large number of gamma-ray photons from EGRET pulsars (~10,000 pulsed counts for Vela) in only few months of observations unveiling new interesting features at sub-millisecond level in the pulsars' high-energy light-curves and paving the way to the discovery of new gamma-ray pulsars.

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