Fermi Large Area Telescope Observations Of Gamma-Ray Pulsars PSR J1057–5226, J1709–4429, And J1952+3252

Abdo, A. A.

doi:10.1088/0004-637X/720/1/26

Title: Fermi Large Area Telescope Observations Of Gamma-Ray Pulsars PSR J1057–5226, J1709–4429, And J1952+3252

Journal Article · Thu Aug 05 00:00:00 EDT 2010 · The Astrophysical Journal

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637X/720/1/26· OSTI ID:1357538

Abdo, A. A. ^[1]

Naval Research Lab. (NRL), Washington, DC (United States); et al.

The Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) data have confirmed the pulsed emission from all six high-confidence gamma-ray pulsars previously known from the EGRET observations. We report results obtained from the analysis of 13 months of LAT data for three of these pulsars (PSR J1057–5226, PSR J1709–4429, and PSR J1952+3252) each of which had some unique feature among the EGRET pulsars. The excellent sensitivity of LAT allows more detailed analysis of the evolution of the pulse profile with energy and also of the variation of the spectral shape with phase. We measure the cutoff energy of the pulsed emission from these pulsars for the first time and provide a more complete picture of the emission mechanism. The results confirm some, but not all, of the features seen in the EGRET data.

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Research Organization:: SLAC National Accelerator Lab., Menlo Park, CA (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE

Contributing Organization:: Fermi LAT Collaboration

Grant/Contract Number:: AC02-76SF00515

OSTI ID:: 1357538

Journal Information:: The Astrophysical Journal, Vol. 720, Issue 1; ISSN 0004-637X

Publisher:: Institute of Physics (IOP)Copyright Statement

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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