Ten Years of Pulsar Discovery with Fermi
Abstract
Fermi data have revealed pulsations from over 250 pulsars, surpassing all but the most optimistic pre-mission predictions. Contributing to this impressive sum are: radio-quiet pulsars found with cutting edge computational techniques; heavily-obscured short period binary millisecond pulsars; very gamma-faint radio pulsars; stably spinning millisecond pulsars; and "garden variety" energetic young pulsars. Each of these groups has advanced our understanding of the birth, evolution, and nature of pulsars. We now know that much of the gamma-ray emission arises from outside the magnetosphere; that plasma-shrouded binary pulsars are common in the Galactic field; and that the gamma-ray "death line" is real. In this talk, I will review these and other highlights and then look forward the next 10 years of discovery.
- Publication:
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AAS/High Energy Astrophysics Division
- Pub Date:
- March 2019
- Bibcode:
- 2019HEAD...1720101K