Finding More & More Gamma-ray Pulsars with the Fermi LAT


Over 300 pulsars are seen to pulse in GeV gamma rays acquired with the Large Area Telescope (LAT) on the Fermi satellite.
Many more may be waiting for discovery: of the >2000 LAT sources with no counterpart known at other wavelengths, hundreds are non-variable, with pulsar-like spectral shapes and sky distributions.
In addition, population syntheses typically predict as many as twice the current LAT pulsar sample.
However, detecting gamma-ray pulsations will be difficult for most of the new ones, whether through blind searches of the gamma-ray data, or using long-term phase-connected rotation ephemeredes for radio pulsars.

I will describe the sample of gamma-ray pulsars in the 3rd LAT Pulsar Catalog, and the ongoing work to transform candidates into discoveries. I will focus on the opportunities that FAST provides to identify the radio-faint,
gamma-loud pulsars hidden in the LAT data, highlighting some of the science that further discoveries enable.



Speaker: 
David Smith(French National Center for Scientific Research)
Place: 
KIAA-auditorium
Host: 
Kejia Lee
Time: 
Tuesday, December 3, 2024 - 3:30PM to Tuesday, December 3, 2024 - 4:30PM