Speaker
Lucas Guillemot
Description
The Large Area Telescope (LAT) on the Fermi satellite has opened a new era in the study of pulsars, by increasing the population of known gamma-ray pulsars from fewer than 10 to more than 120 objects, thereby establishing pulsars as the dominant class of GeV sources in the Galaxy. The improved sensitivity of the LAT has allowed studies of the light curves and spectra of gamma-ray pulsars with unprecedented details, and the discovery of new populations of radio quiet pulsars and millisecond pulsars in Fermi unidentified sources has revolutionized our view of the gamma-ray pulsar population. I will review Fermi LAT observations of pulsars after four years of mission, describe the techniques used to detect pulsars in the LAT data and highlight some of the exciting results.
Author
Lucas Guillemot
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