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astro-ph.HE2011

Discovery of gamma and X-ray pulsations from the young and energetic PSR J1357-6429 with Fermi and XMM-Newton

M. Lemoine-Goumard, V. E. Zavlin, M. -H. Grondin +20

Since the launch of the Fermi satellite, the number of known gamma-ray pulsars has increased tenfold. Most gamma-ray detected pulsars are young and energetic, and many are associat…

astro-ph.HE2012

Radio Searches of Fermi LAT Sources and Blind Search Pulsars: The Fermi Pulsar Search Consortium

P. S. Ray, A. A. Abdo, D. Parent +29

We present a summary of the Fermi Pulsar Search Consortium (PSC), an international collaboration of radio astronomers and members of the Large Area Telescope (LAT) collaboration, w…

astro-ph.HE2009

On the high energy pulsar population detected by Fermi

G. A. Caliandro, E. C. Ferrara, D. Parent +1

The Large Area Telescope (LAT), Fermi's main instrument, is providing a new view of the local energetic pulsar population. In addition to identifying a pulsar origin of a large fra…

astro-ph.HE2012

Measurement of separate cosmic-ray electron and positron spectra with the Fermi Large Area Telescope

The Fermi LAT Collaboration, M. Ackermann, M. Ajello +148

We measured separate cosmic-ray electron and positron spectra with the Fermi Large Area Telescope. Because the instrument does not have an onboard magnet, we distinguish the two sp…

astro-ph.HE2012

Gamma-ray observations of the Orion Molecular Clouds with the Fermi Large Area Telescope

M. Ackermann, M. Ajello, A. Allafort +142

We report on the gamma-ray observations of giant molecular clouds Orion A and B with the Large Area Telescope (LAT) on-board the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope. The gamma-ray emis…

astro-ph.HE2011

Constraining Dark Matter Models from a Combined Analysis of Milky Way Satellites with the Fermi Large Area Telescope

LAT Collaboration, M. Ackermann, M. Ajello +150

Satellite galaxies of the Milky Way are among the most promising targets for dark matter searches in gamma rays. We present a search for dark matter consisting of weakly interactin…

astro-ph.CO2010

Observations of Milky Way Dwarf Spheroidal galaxies with the Fermi-LAT detector and constraints on Dark Matter models

LAT Collaboration, A. A. Abdo, M. Ackermann +160

We report on the observations of 14 dwarf spheroidal galaxies with the Fermi Gamma-Ray Space Telescope taken during the first 11 months of survey mode operations. The Fermi telesco…

astro-ph.HE2010

PSRs J0248+6021 and J2240+5832: Young Pulsars in the Northern Galactic Plane. Discovery, Timing, and Gamma-ray observations

G. Theureau, D. Parent, I. Cognard +15

Pulsars PSR J0248+6021 (rotation period P=217 ms and spin-down power Edot = 2.13E35 erg/s) and PSR J2240+5832 (P=140 ms, Edot = 2.12E35 erg/s) were discovered in 1997 with the Nanc…

astro-ph2008

PSR J1410-6132: A young, energetic pulsar associated with EGRET source 3EG J1410-6147

J. T. O'Brien, S. Johnston, M. Kramer +9

We present the discovery of PSR J1410-6132, a 50-ms pulsar found during a high-frequency survey of the Galactic plane, using a 7-beam 6.3-GHz receiver on the 64-m Parkes radio tele…

astro-ph.HE2012

GeV Observations of Star-forming Galaxies with \textit{Fermi} LAT

Fermi LAT Collaboration, M. Ackermann, M. Ajello +127

Recent detections of the starburst galaxies M82 and NGC 253 by gamma-ray telescopes suggest that galaxies rapidly forming massive stars are more luminous at gamma-ray energies comp…

astro-ph.HE2011

Observations of Energetic High Magnetic Field Pulsars with the Fermi Large Area Telescope

D. Parent, M. Kerr, P. R. Den Hartog +27

We report the detection of gamma-ray pulsations from the high-magnetic-field rotation-powered pulsar PSR J1119-6127 using data from the Fermi Large Area Telescope. The gamma-ray li…

astro-ph.CO2011

Gamma-Ray and Parsec-Scale Jet Properties of a Complete Sample of Blazars From the MOJAVE Program

M. L. Lister, M. Aller, H. Aller +142

We investigate the Fermi LAT gamma-ray and 15 GHz VLBA radio properties of a joint gamma-ray- and radio-selected sample of AGNs obtained during the first 11 months of the Fermi mis…

astro-ph.GA2011

PSR J2030+3641: radio discovery and gamma-ray study of a middle-aged pulsar in the now identified Fermi-LAT source 1FGL J2030.0+3641

F. Camilo, M. Kerr, P. S. Ray +14

In a radio search with the Green Bank Telescope of three unidentified low Galactic latitude Fermi-LAT sources, we have discovered the middle-aged pulsar J2030+3641, associated with…

astro-ph.GA2010

Radio and Gamma-Ray Constraints on the Emission Geometry and Birthplace of PSR J2043+2740

A. Noutsos, A. A. Abdo, M. Ackermann +146

We report on the first year of Fermi gamma-ray observations of pulsed high-energy emission from the old PSR J2043+2740. The study of the gamma-ray efficiency of such old pulsars gi…

astro-ph.CO2010

Constraints on Cosmological Dark Matter Annihilation from the Fermi-LAT Isotropic Diffuse Gamma-Ray Measurement

LAT collaboration, A. A. Abdo, M. Ackermann +147

The first published Fermi large area telescope (Fermi-LAT) measurement of the isotropic diffuse gamma-ray emission is in good agreement with a single power law, and is not showing…

astro-ph.HE2011

Precise Gamma-Ray Timing and Radio Observations of 17 Fermi Gamma-Ray Pulsars

P. S. Ray, M. Kerr, D. Parent +23

We present precise phase-connected pulse timing solutions for 16 gamma-ray-selected pulsars recently discovered using the Large Area Telescope (LAT) on the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Te…

astro-ph.HE2012

Anisotropies in the diffuse gamma-ray background measured by the Fermi LAT

M. Ackermann, M. Ajello, A. Albert +134

The contribution of unresolved sources to the diffuse gamma-ray background could induce anisotropies in this emission on small angular scales. We analyze the angular power spectrum…

astro-ph.HE2011

Pulsed Gamma Rays from the Original Millisecond and Black Widow Pulsars: a case for Caustic Radio Emission?

L. Guillemot, T. J. Johnson, C. Venter +25

We report the detection of pulsed gamma-ray emission from the fast millisecond pulsars (MSPs) B1937+21 (also known as J1939+2134) and B1957+20 (J1959+2048) using 18 months of surve…

astro-ph.HE2011

PSR J0007+7303 in the CTA1 SNR: New Gamma-ray Results from Two Years of Fermi-LAT Observations

A. A. Abdo, K. S. Wood, M. E. DeCesar +8

One of the main results of the Fermi Gamma-Ray Space Telescope is the discovery of γ-ray selected pulsars. The high magnetic field pulsar, PSR J0007+7303 in CTA1, was the first ev…

astro-ph.HE2010

Fermi LAT Search for Photon Lines from 30 to 200 GeV and Dark Matter Implications

The Fermi LAT Collaboration, A. A. Abdo, M. Ackermann +160

Dark matter (DM) particle annihilation or decay can produce monochromatic -rays readily distinguishable from astrophysical sources. -ray line limits from 30 GeV to 200 GeV…

astro-ph.HE2011

Discovery of Nine Gamma-Ray Pulsars in Fermi-LAT Data Using a New Blind Search Method

H. J. Pletsch, L. Guillemot, B. Allen +28

We report the discovery of nine previously unknown gamma-ray pulsars in a blind search of data from the Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT). The pulsars were found with a novel hierar…

astro-ph.HE2012

Discovery of the millisecond pulsar PSR J2043+1711 in a Fermi source with the Nancay Radio Telescope

L. Guillemot, P. C. C. Freire, I. Cognard +18

We report the discovery of the millisecond pulsar PSR J2043+1711 in a search of a Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) source with no known associations, with the Nancay Radio Telescop…

astro-ph.HE2011

Simultaneous multi-wavelength campaign on PKS 2005-489 in a high state

The H. E. S. S. Collaboration, the Fermi LAT Collaboration, : +345

The high-frequency peaked BL Lac object PKS 2005-489 was the target of a multi-wavelength campaign with simultaneous observations in the TeV gamma-ray (H.E.S.S.), GeV gamma-ray (Fe…

astro-ph.HE2011

Discovery of two millisecond pulsars in Fermi sources with the Nancay Radio Telescope

I. Cognard, L. Guillemot, T. J. Johnson +29

We report the discovery of two millisecond pulsars in a search for radio pulsations at the positions of \emph{Fermi Large Area Telescope} sources with no previously known counterpa…

astro-ph.SR2011

The High Time Resolution Universe Pulsar Survey IV: Discovery and polarimetry of millisecond pulsars

M. J. Keith, S. Johnston, M. Bailes +13

We present the discovery of six millisecond pulsars (MSPs) in the High Time Resolution Universe (HTRU) survey for pulsars and fast transients carried out with the Parkes radio tele…

astro-ph.HE2010

Eight gamma-ray pulsars discovered in blind frequency searches of Fermi LAT data

P. M. Saz Parkinson, M. Dormody, M. Ziegler +34

We report the discovery of eight gamma-ray pulsars in blind frequency searches using the LAT, onboard the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope. Five of the eight pulsars are young (tau_…

astro-ph.HE2010

Three Millisecond Pulsars in FERMI LAT Unassociated Bright Sources

S. M. Ransom, P. S. Ray, F. Camilo +33

We searched for radio pulsars in 25 of the non-variable, unassociated sources in the Fermi LAT Bright Source List with the Green Bank Telescope at 820 MHz. We report the discovery…

astro-ph.HE2012

A giant radio flare from Cygnus X-3 with associated Gamma-ray emission

S. Corbel, G. Dubus, J. A. Tomsick +16

With frequent flaring activity of its relativistic jets, Cygnus X-3 is one of the most active microquasars and is the only Galactic black hole candidate with confirmed high energy…