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Searching a Thousand Radio Pulsars for Gamma-ray Emission

P. Bruel
A.D. Cameron
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F. Camilo
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S. Dai
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T.J. Johnson
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S. Johnston
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M.J. Keith
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M. Kerr
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M. Kramer
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A.G. Lyne
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R.N. Manchester
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R. Shannon
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C. Sobey
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B.W. Stappers
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P. Weltevrede
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Résumé

Identifying as many gamma-ray pulsars as possible in the Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) data helps test pulsar emission models by comparing predicted and observed properties for a large, varied sample with as little selection bias as possible. It also improves extrapolations from the observed population to estimate the contribution of unresolved pulsars to the diffuse gamma-ray emission. We use a recently developed method to determine the probability that a given gamma-ray photon comes from a known position in the sky, convolving the photon's energy with the LAT's energy-dependent point-spread function, without the need for an accurate spatial and spectral model of the gamma-ray sky around the pulsar. The method is simple and fast and, importantly, provides probabilities, or weights, for gamma-rays from pulsars too faint for phase-integrated detection. We applied the method to over a thousand pulsars for which we obtained rotation ephemerides from radio observations, and discovered gamma-ray pulsations from 16 pulsars, 12 young and 4 recycled. PSR J2208+4056 has spindown power erg s−1, about three times lower than the previous observed gamma-ray emission "deathline." PSRs J2208+4056 and J1816−0755 have radio interpulses, constraining their geometry and perhaps enhancing their gamma-ray luminosity. We discuss whether the deathline is an artifact of selection bias due to the pulsar distance.
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hal-01965501 , version 1 (28-03-2019)

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D.A. Smith, P. Bruel, I. Cognard, A.D. Cameron, F. Camilo, et al.. Searching a Thousand Radio Pulsars for Gamma-ray Emission. Astrophys.J., 2019, 871 (1), pp.78. ⟨10.3847/1538-4357/aaf57d⟩. ⟨hal-01965501⟩
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