The First Fermi Large Area Telescope Catalog of Gamma-ray Pulsars

A. A. Abdo; M. Ackermann; M. Ajello; W. B. Atwood; M. Axelsson; L. Baldini; Jean Ballet; G. Barbiellini; M. G. Baring; D. Bastieri; B. M. Baughman; K. Bechtol; R. Bellazzini; B. Berenji; R. D. Blandford; E. D. Bloom; E. Bonamente; A. W. Borgland; J. Bregeon; A. Brez; M. Brigida; Pascal Bruel; T. H. Burnett; S. Buson; G. A. Caliandro; R. A. Cameron; F. Camilo; P. A. Caraveo; J. M. Casandjian; C. Cecchi; O. Celik; E. Charles; A. Chekhtman; C. C. Cheung; J. Chiang; S. Ciprini; R. Claus; Ismaël Cognard; J. Cohen-Tanugi; L. R. Cominsky; J. Conrad; R. Corbet; S. Cutini; P. R. den Hartog; C. D. Dermer; A. de Angelis; A. de Luca; F. de Palma; S. W. Digel; M. Dormody; E. Do Couto E Silva; P. S. Drell; R. Dubois; D. Dumora; C. Espinoza; C. Farnier; C. Favuzzi; S. J. Fegan; E. C. Ferrara; W. B. Focke; P. Fortin; M. Frailis; P. C. C. Freire; Y. Fukazawa; S. Funk; P. Fusco; F. Gargano; D. Gasparrini; N. Gehrels; S. Germani; G. Giavitto; B. Giebels; N. Giglietto; P. Giommi; F. Giordano; T. Glanzman; G. Godfrey; E. V. Gotthelf; I. A. Grenier; M.-H. Grondin; J. E. Grove; L. Guillemot; S. Guiriec; C. Gwon; Y. Hanabata; A. K. Harding; M. Hayashida; E. Hays; R. E. Hughes; M. S. Jackson; G. Johannesson; A. S. Johnson; R. P. Johnson; T. J. Johnson; W. N. Johnson; S. Johnston; T. Kamae; G. Kanbach; V. M. Kaspi; H. Katagiri; J. Kataoka; N. Kawai; M. Kerr; Jürgen Knödlseder; M. L. Kocian; M. Kramer; M. Kuss; J. Lande; L. Latronico; M. Lemoine-Goumard; M. Livingstone; F. Longo; F. Loparco; B. Lott; M. N. Lovellette; P. Lubrano; A. G. Lyne; G. M. Madejski; A. Makeev; R. N. Manchester; M. Marelli; M. N. Mazziotta; W. Mcconville; J. E. Mcenery; S. Mcglynn; C. Meurer; P. F. Michelson; T. Mineo; W. Mitthumsiri; T. Mizuno; A. A. Moiseev; C. Monte; M. E. Monzani; A. Morselli; I. V. Moskalenko; S. Murgia; T. Nakamori; P. L. Nolan; J. P. Norris; A. Noutsos; E. Nuss; T. Ohsugi; N. Omodei; E. Orlando; J. F. Ormes; M. Ozaki; D. Paneque; J. H. Panetta; D. Parent; V. Pelassa; M. Pepe; M. Pesce-Rollins; F. Piron; T.A. Porter; S. Rain'O; R. Rando; S. M. Ransom; P. S. Ray; M. Razzano; N. Rea; A. Reimer; O. Reimer; T. Reposeur; S. Ritz; A. Y. Rodriguez; R. W. Romani; M. Roth; F. Ryde; H. F.-W. Sadrozinski; D. Sanchez; A. Sander; P. M. Saz Parkinson; J. D. Scargle; T. L. Schalk; A. Sellerholm; C. Sgro; E. J. Siskind; David Stanley Smith; P. D. Smith; G. Spandre; P. Spinelli; B. W. Stappers; Jean-Luc Starck; E. Striani; M. S. Strickman; A. W. Strong; D. J. Suson; H. Tajima; H. Takahashi; T. Takahashi; T. Tanaka; J. B. Thayer; J. G. Thayer; G. Theureau; D. J. Thompson; S. E. Thorsett; L. Tibaldo; O. Tibolla; D. F. Torres; G. Tosti; A. Tramacere; Y. Uchiyama; T. L. Usher; A. van Etten; V. Vasileiou; C. Venter; N. Vilchez; V. Vitale; A. P. Waite; P. Wang; N. Wang; K. Watters; P. Weltevrede; B. L. Winer; K. S. Wood; T. Ylinen; M. Ziegler

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The First Fermi Large Area Telescope Catalog of Gamma-ray Pulsars

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The First Fermi Large Area Telescope Catalog of Gamma-ray Pulsars

A. A. Abdo, M. Ackermann, M. Ajello, W. B. Atwood, M. Axelsson, L. Baldini, Jean Ballet, G. Barbiellini, M. G. Baring, D. Bastieri, …

The Astrophysical Journal Supplement, Vol.187, pp.460-494

04/2010

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1088/0067-0049/187/2/460

Abstract

stars: neutron

pulsars: general

catalogs

gamma rays: general

The dramatic increase in the number of known gamma-ray pulsars since the launch of the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope (formerly GLAST) offers the first opportunity to study a population of these high-energy objects. This catalog summarizes 46 high-confidence pulsed detections using the first six months of data taken by the Large Area Telescope (LAT), Fermi's main instrument. Sixteen previously unknown pulsars were discovered by searching for pulsed signals at the positions of bright gamma-ray sources seen with the LAT, or at the positions of objects suspected to be neutron stars based on observations at other wavelengths. Pulsed gamma-ray emission was discovered from twenty-four known pulsars by using ephemerides (timing solutions) derived from monitoring radio pulsars. Eight of these new gamma-ray pulsars are millisecond pulsars. The pulsed energy spectra can be described by a power law with an exponential cutoff, with cutoff energies in the range 1 to 5 GeV. The rotational energy loss rate (\dot{E}) of these neutron stars spans 5 decades, from ~3x10^{33} erg/s to 5x10^{38} erg/s, and the apparent efficiencies for conversion to gamma-ray emission range from ~0.1% to unity, although distance uncertainties complicate efficiency estimates. The pulse shapes show substantial diversity, but roughly 75% of the gamma-ray pulse profiles have two peaks, separated by >0.2 of rotational phase. For most of the pulsars, gamma-ray emission appears to come mainly from the outer magnetosphere, while polar-cap emission remains plausible for a remaining few. Finally, these discoveries suggest that gamma-ray-selected young pulsars are born at a rate comparable to that of their radio-selected cousins and that the birthrate of all young gamma-ray-detected pulsars is a substantial fraction of the expected Galactic supernova rate.

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Title: The First Fermi Large Area Telescope Catalog of Gamma-ray Pulsars
Creators - without role: A. A. Abdo - National Academy of Sciences
M. Ackermann - Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology
M. Ajello - Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology
W. B. Atwood - University of California, Santa Cruz
M. Axelsson - Fraunhofer Chalmers Research Centre for Industrial Mathematics
L. Baldini - Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Pisa
Jean Ballet - Astrophysique, Instrumentation et Modélisation
G. Barbiellini - University of Trieste
M. G. Baring - Rice University
D. Bastieri - University of Padua
B. M. Baughman - The Ohio State University
K. Bechtol - Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology
R. Bellazzini - Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Pisa
B. Berenji - Stanford University
R. D. Blandford - Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology
E. D. Bloom - Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology
E. Bonamente - University of Perugia
A. W. Borgland
J. Bregeon - Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Pisa
A. Brez - Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Pisa
M. Brigida - Polytechnic University of Bari
Pascal Bruel - École Polytechnique
T. H. Burnett
S. Buson - University of Padua
G. A. Caliandro
R. A. Cameron
F. Camilo - Columbia University
P. A. Caraveo - Istituto di Astrofisica Spaziale e Fisica Cosmica di Milano
J. M. Casandjian - Astrophysique Interprétation Modélisation
C. Cecchi - Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Perugia
O. Celik - Goddard Space Flight Center
E. Charles - Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology
A. Chekhtman - United States Naval Research Laboratory
C. C. Cheung
J. Chiang - Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology
S. Ciprini - Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Perugia
R. Claus - Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology
Ismaël Cognard - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
J. Cohen-Tanugi - Laboratoire de Physique Théorique
L. R. Cominsky
J. Conrad - Stockholm University
R. Corbet - University of Maryland, Baltimore County
S. Cutini - Agenzia Spaziale Italiana
P. R. den Hartog
C. D. Dermer
A. de Angelis - Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Trieste
A. de Luca - Istituto Universitario di Studi Superiori di Pavia
F. de Palma - Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Bari
S. W. Digel
M. Dormody - University of California, Santa Cruz
E. Do Couto E Silva
P. S. Drell
R. Dubois - Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology
D. Dumora - Laboratoire de Physique des deux infinis Bordeaux
C. Espinoza - University of Manchester
C. Farnier - Laboratoire de Physique Théorique
C. Favuzzi - Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Bari
S. J. Fegan - Laboratoire Leprince-Ringuet
E. C. Ferrara
W. B. Focke
P. Fortin - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
M. Frailis - Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Trieste
P. C. C. Freire
Y. Fukazawa - Hiroshima University
S. Funk - Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology
P. Fusco - Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Bari
F. Gargano - Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Bari
D. Gasparrini - Agenzia Spaziale Italiana
N. Gehrels - Goddard Space Flight Center
S. Germani - University of Perugia
G. Giavitto - Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Trieste
B. Giebels - École Polytechnique
N. Giglietto - Polytechnic University of Bari
P. Giommi - Agenzia Spaziale Italiana
F. Giordano - Polytechnic University of Bari
T. Glanzman - Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology
G. Godfrey - Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology
E. V. Gotthelf
I. A. Grenier - Astrophysique Interprétation Modélisation
M.-H. Grondin - Laboratoire de Physique des deux infinis Bordeaux
J. E. Grove
L. Guillemot - Laboratoire de Physique des deux infinis Bordeaux
S. Guiriec - University of Alabama in Huntsville
C. Gwon - United States Naval Research Laboratory
Y. Hanabata - Hiroshima University
A. K. Harding
M. Hayashida - Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology
E. Hays - Goddard Space Flight Center
R. E. Hughes
M. S. Jackson
G. Johannesson - Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology
A. S. Johnson
R. P. Johnson
T. J. Johnson
W. N. Johnson
S. Johnston - Australia Telescope National Facility
T. Kamae - Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology
G. Kanbach - Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics
V. M. Kaspi
H. Katagiri - Hiroshima University
J. Kataoka - Waseda University
N. Kawai - RIKEN
M. Kerr - University of Washington
Jürgen Knödlseder - Centre National d'Études Spatiales
M. L. Kocian
M. Kramer - University of Manchester
M. Kuss - Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Pisa
J. Lande - Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology
L. Latronico - Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Pisa
M. Lemoine-Goumard - Laboratoire de Physique des deux infinis Bordeaux
M. Livingstone - McGill University
F. Longo - Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Trieste
F. Loparco - Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Bari
B. Lott - Laboratoire de Physique des deux infinis Bordeaux
M. N. Lovellette
P. Lubrano - Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Perugia
A. G. Lyne
G. M. Madejski
A. Makeev - United States Naval Research Laboratory
R. N. Manchester
M. Marelli - Istituto di Astrofisica Spaziale e Fisica Cosmica di Milano
M. N. Mazziotta
W. Mcconville - Goddard Space Flight Center
J. E. Mcenery
S. Mcglynn - KTH Royal Institute of Technology
C. Meurer - AlbaNova
P. F. Michelson
T. Mineo
W. Mitthumsiri - Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology
T. Mizuno - Hiroshima University
A. A. Moiseev
C. Monte - Polytechnic University of Bari
M. E. Monzani
A. Morselli - Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Roma Tor Vergata
I. V. Moskalenko
S. Murgia - Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology
T. Nakamori - Tokyo Institute of Technology
P. L. Nolan
J. P. Norris
A. Noutsos - University of Manchester
E. Nuss - Laboratoire de Physique Théorique
T. Ohsugi - Hiroshima University
N. Omodei - Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Pisa
E. Orlando - Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics
J. F. Ormes
M. Ozaki - Institute of Space and Astronautical Science
D. Paneque - Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology
J. H. Panetta
D. Parent - Université de Bordeaux
V. Pelassa - Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules
M. Pepe - University of Perugia
M. Pesce-Rollins - Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Pisa
F. Piron - Laboratoire de Physique Théorique
T.A. Porter - University of California, Santa Cruz
S. Rain'O
R. Rando - Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Padova
S. M. Ransom
P. S. Ray
M. Razzano - Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Pisa
N. Rea - Institute of Space Sciences
A. Reimer - Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology
O. Reimer - Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology
T. Reposeur - Laboratoire de Physique des deux infinis Bordeaux
S. Ritz - University of California, Santa Cruz
A. Y. Rodriguez
R. W. Romani
M. Roth - University of Washington
F. Ryde - Fraunhofer Chalmers Research Centre for Industrial Mathematics
H. F.-W. Sadrozinski
D. Sanchez - Laboratoire Leprince-Ringuet
A. Sander - The Ohio State University
P. M. Saz Parkinson
J. D. Scargle - Astrophysique Interprétation Modélisation
T. L. Schalk
A. Sellerholm - Fraunhofer Chalmers Research Centre for Industrial Mathematics
C. Sgro - Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Pisa
E. J. Siskind
David Stanley Smith - Laboratoire de Physique des deux infinis Bordeaux
P. D. Smith
G. Spandre - Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Pisa
P. Spinelli - Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Bari
B. W. Stappers
Jean-Luc Starck - Astrophysique Interprétation Modélisation
E. Striani - Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Roma Tor Vergata
M. S. Strickman
A. W. Strong
D. J. Suson
H. Tajima - Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology
H. Takahashi - Hiroshima University
T. Takahashi - Institute of Space and Astronautical Science
T. Tanaka - Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology
J. B. Thayer
J. G. Thayer
G. Theureau - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
D. J. Thompson
S. E. Thorsett
L. Tibaldo - University of Padua
O. Tibolla - Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics
D. F. Torres
G. Tosti - Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Perugia
A. Tramacere - Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology
Y. Uchiyama - Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology
T. L. Usher
A. van Etten - Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology
V. Vasileiou - Goddard Space Flight Center
C. Venter - North-West University
N. Vilchez - Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier
V. Vitale - Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Roma Tor Vergata
A. P. Waite
P. Wang - Stanford University
N. Wang - National Astronomical Observatories
K. Watters - Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology
P. Weltevrede - Australia Telescope National Facility
B. L. Winer
K. S. Wood
T. Ylinen - Fraunhofer Chalmers Research Centre for Industrial Mathematics
M. Ziegler - University of California, Santa Cruz
Publication Details: The Astrophysical Journal Supplement, Vol.187, pp.460-494
Identifiers: 9933977609311
Academic Unit: Université de Montpellier
Language: English
Resource Type: Journal article
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