Observations of Millisecond Pulsars with the Fermi Large Area Telescope
Abstract
Millisecond pulsars (MSPs) have been firmly established as a class of high-energy, >0.1 GeV, emitters via the detection of pulsations, using radio timing solutions, of at least nine MSPs with the Large Area Telescope (LAT) aboard the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope. The LAT data suggest that the emission mechanisms in gamma-ray MSPs are the same as those powering younger gamma-ray pulsars. We will present the MSP results from the LAT including the implications from the LAT detection of gamma-ray emission from the globular cluster 47 Tucanae, which hosts at least twenty-three radio-loud MSPs.
- Publication:
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AAS/High Energy Astrophysics Division #11
- Pub Date:
- March 2010
- Bibcode:
- 2010HEAD...11.1602K