Speaker
Dr
Pablo Saz Parkinson
(University of California, Santa Cruz)
Description
The Large Area Telescope on the recently launched Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope (formerly GLAST), with its large field of view and effective area, combined with its excellent timing capabilities is poised to revolutionize the field of gamma-ray astrophysics. The significant improvement in sensitivity of Fermi over EGRET is expected to result in the discovery of a large number of new gamma-ray pulsars, which in turn should lead to fundamental advances in our understanding of pulsar physics.
Almost immediately after launch, Fermi clearly detected all six previously
known gamma-ray pulsars and is producing high precision results on these.
An extensive radio and X-ray timing campaign of previously known pulsars
is being carried out in order to facilitate the discovery of new gamma-ray pulsars,
which has already paid off. In addition, a highly efficient time
differencing technique is used to carry out blind searches for radio-quiet
(Geminga-like) pulsars, which has also resulted in new discoveries.
I will present some recent results from searches for pulsars carried out on Fermi data, both blind searches and those using contemporaneous timing of known radiopulsars.
Author
Dr
Pablo Saz Parkinson
(University of California, Santa Cruz)
