Prospects for Pulsar Studies at MeV Energies
Abstract
Enabled by the Fermi Large Area Telescope, we now know that pulsars fill the gamma-ray sky, and we are beginning to understand their emission mechanism and their distribution throughout the Galaxy. To address key questions calls for a sensitive, wide-field MeV telescope, which can detect the population of MeV-peaked pulsars hinted at by Fermi.
- Publication:
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Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society
- Pub Date:
- May 2019
- DOI:
- 10.48550/arXiv.1904.00052
- arXiv:
- arXiv:1904.00052
- Bibcode:
- 2019BAAS...51c.379H
- Keywords:
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- Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
- E-Print:
- 8 pages, 4 figures, Astro2020 Science White Paper submitted to the National Academies of Sciences