7–11 Aug 2017
Columbus, Ohio, USA
US/Eastern timezone

The Rise of the Leptons: Pulsar Emission Dominates the TeV Gamma-Ray Sky

8 Aug 2017, 14:00
15m
Corinthian Room (The Athenaeum)

Corinthian Room

The Athenaeum

Oral Gamma rays Gamma rays

Speaker

Tim Linden

Description

Recent HAWC observations have found extended TeV emission coincident with the Geminga and Monogem pulsars. In this talk, I will show that these detections have significant implications for our understanding of pulsar emission. The isotropic nature of this emission provides a new avenue for detecting nearby pulsars with radio beams that are not oriented towards Earth. Additionally, I will show that the total emission from all unresolved pulsars produces the majority of the TeV gamma-ray flux observed from the Milky Way.

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