New Neighbours : Modelling the Growing Population of gamma-ray Millisecond Pulsars

Author:: Venter, C.
Published:: July 08, 2010.
Physical Description:: 1 electronic document
Additional Creators:: Harding, A. K. and Johnson, T. J.

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The Fermi Large Area Telescope, in collaboration with several groups from the radio community. have had marvelous success at uncovering new gamma-ray millisecond pulsars (MSPs). In fact, MSPs now make up a sizable fraction of the total number of known gamma-ray pulsars. The MSP population is characterized by a variety of pulse profile shapes, peak separations, and radio-to-gamma phase lags, with some members exhibiting nearly phase-aligned radio and gamma-ray light curves (LCs). The MSPs' short spin periods underline the importance of including special relativistic effects in LC calculations, even for emission originating from near the stellar surface. We present results on modelling and classification of MSP LCs using standard pulsar model geometries.

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Document ID: 20120016935.
GSFC.BOOK.6746.2012.

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