Finding (or not) New Gamma-ray Pulsars with GLAST

Details Finding (or not) New Gamma-ray Pulsars with GLAST Finding (or not) New Gamma-ray Pulsars with GLAST

2007-04-09

arxiv.org/abs/0704.1131v1

AIP Conf.Proc.921:54-56,2007

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

3 pages, 2 figures, for the Proceedings of the First GLAST Symposium (5-8 Feb 2007)

Scientific paper

10.1063/1.2757266

Young energetic pulsars will likely be the largest class of Galactic sources observed by GLAST, with many hundreds detected. Many will be unknown as radio pulsars, making pulsation detection dependent on radio and/or x-ray observations or on blind periodicity searches of the gamma-rays. Estimates for the number of pulsars GLAST will detect in blind searches have ranged from tens to many hundreds. I argue that the number will be near the low end of this range, partly due to observations being made in a scanning as opposed to a pointing mode. This paper briefly reviews how blind pulsar searches will be conducted using GLAST, what limits these searches, and how the computations and statistics scale with various parameters.

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