학술논문

The Third Fermi Large Area Telescope Catalog of Gamma-ray Pulsars
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Working Paper
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Smith, David A.Bruel, PhilippeClark, Colin J.Guillemot, LucasKerr, Matthew T.Ray, PaulAbdollahi, SoheilaAjello, MarcoBaldini, LucaBallet, JeanBaring, MatthewBassa, CeesGonzalez, Josefa BecerraBellazzini, RonaldoBerretta, AlessandraBhattacharyya, BhaswatiBissaldi, ElisabettaBonino, RaffaellaBottacini, EugenioBregeon, JohanBurgay, MartaBurnett, TobyCameron, RobCamilo, FernandoCaputo, ReginaCaraveo, PatriziaCavazzuti, ElisabettaChiaro, GrazianoCiprini, StefanoCognard, IsmaelOrestano, Paolo CristarellaCrnogorcevic, MilenaCuoco, AlessandroCutini, SaraD'Ammando, Filippode Angelis, AlessandroDe Gaetano, Salvatorede Menezes, Ranierede Palma, FrancescoDeCesar, MeganDeneva, JuliaDi Lalla, NiccolaDi Venere, LeonardoDirirsa, Feraol FanaDominguez, AlbertoDumora, DenisFegan, StephenFerrara, ElizabethFiori, AlessioFleischhack, HenrikeFlynn, ChrisFranckowiak, AnnaFreire, PauloFukazawa, YasushiFusco, PiergiorgioGalanti, GiorgioGammaldi, VivianaGargano, FabioGasparrini, DarioGiacchino, FedericaGiglietto, NicoGiordano, FrancescoGiroletti, MarcelloGreen, DavidGrenier, IsabelleGuiriec, SylvainGustafsson, MichaelHarding, AliceHays, LizHewitt, JohnHoran, DeirdreHou, XianJankowski, FabianJohnson, TyrelJohnson, RobertJohnston, SimonKataoka, JunKeith, Michael J.Kramer, MichaelKuss, MichaelLatronico, LucaLee, Shiu-HangLi, DiLi, JianLimyansky, BrentLongo, FrancescoLoparco, FrancescoLorusso, LeonardaLovellette, MichaelLower, MarcusLubrano, PasqualeLyne, AndrewMaldera, SimoneManchester, RichardManfreda, AlbertoMarelli, MartinoMarta-Devesa, GuillemMazziotta, Mario NicolaMcEnery, JulieMereu, IsabellaMichelson, PeterMitthumsiri, WaritMizuno, TsunefumiMoiseev, AlexMonzani, Maria ElenaMorselli, AldoNegro, MichelaNemmen, RodrigoNieder, LarsNuss, EricOmodei, NicolaOrienti, MonicaOrlando, ElenaOrmes, Jonathan F.Palatiello, MichelePaneque, DavidPanzarini, GiulianaPersic, MassimoPesce-Rollins, MelissaPillera, RobertaPoon, HelenPorter, TroyPrincipe, GiacomoRaino, SilviaRando, RiccardoRansom, ScottRazzano, MassimilianoRazzaque, SoeburReimer, AnitaReimer, OlafRenault-Tinacci, NicolasRomani, RogerSanchez-Conde, Miguel A.Parkinson, Pablo SazScotton, LorenzoSerini, DavideSgro, CarmeloShannon, RyanSharma, VidushiSiskind, Eric J.Spandre, GloriaSpinelli, PaoloStappers, BenStephens, TomSuson, DanTajima, HiroTak, DongguenTheureau, GillesThompson, DavidTibolla, OmarTorres, Diego F.Valverde, JanethVenter, ChristoWadiasingh, ZorawarWang, NinaWang, PeiWeltevrede, PatrickWood, KentZaharijas, Gabrijela
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Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
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Abstract
We present 294 pulsars found in GeV data from the Large Area Telescope (LAT) on the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope. Another 33 millisecond pulsars (MSPs) discovered in deep radio searches of LAT sources will likely reveal pulsations once phase-connected rotation ephemerides are achieved. A further dozen optical and/or X-ray binary systems co-located with LAT sources also likely harbor gamma-ray MSPs. This catalog thus reports roughly 340 gamma-ray pulsars and candidates, 10% of all known pulsars, compared to $\leq 11$ known before Fermi. Half of the gamma-ray pulsars are young. Of these, the half that are undetected in radio have a broader Galactic latitude distribution than the young radio-loud pulsars. The others are MSPs, with 6 undetected in radio. Overall, >235 are bright enough above 50 MeV to fit the pulse profile, the energy spectrum, or both. For the common two-peaked profiles, the gamma-ray peak closest to the magnetic pole crossing generally has a softer spectrum. The spectral energy distributions tend to narrow as the spindown power $\dot E$ decreases to its observed minimum near $10^{33}$ erg s$^{-1}$, approaching the shape for synchrotron radiation from monoenergetic electrons. We calculate gamma-ray luminosities when distances are available. Our all-sky gamma-ray sensitivity map is useful for population syntheses. The electronic catalog version provides gamma-ray pulsar ephemerides, properties and fit results to guide and be compared with modeling results.
Comment: 142 pages. Accepted by the Astrophysical Journal Supplement