PRECISE γ-RAY TIMING AND RADIO OBSERVATIONS OF 17 FERMI γ-RAY PULSARS

By P. Ray, M. Kerr, D. Parent, A. Abdo, L. Guillemot, S. Ransom, N. Rea, M. Wolff, A. Makeev, M. Roberts and 16 more. 2010

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We present precise phase-connected pulse timing solutions for 16 γ-ray-selected pulsars recently discovered using the Large Area Telescope (LAT) on the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope plus one very faint radio pulsar (PSR J1124−5916) that is more effectively timed with the LAT. We describe the analysis techniques including a maximum likelihood method for determining pulse times of arrival from unbinned photon data. A major result of this work is improved position determinations, which are crucial for multiwavelength follow-up. For most of the pulsars, we overlay the timing localizations on X-ray images from Swift and describe the status of X-ray counterpart associations. We report glitches measured in PSRs J0007+7303, J1124−5916, and J1813−1246. We analyze a new 20 ks Chandra ACIS observation of PSR J0633+0632 that reveals an arcminute-scale X-ray nebula extending to the south of the pulsar. We were also able to precisely localize the X-ray point source counterpart to the pulsar and find a spectrum that can be described by an absorbed blackbody or neutron star atmosphere with a hard power-law component. Another Chandra ACIS image of PSR J1732−3131 reveals a faint X-ray point source at a location consistent with the timing position of the pulsar. Finally, we present a compilation of new and archival searches for radio pulsations from each of the γ-ray-selected pulsars as well as a new Parkes radio observation of PSR J1124−5916 to establish the γ-ray to radio phase offset.

Subfields: Astronomy and Astrophysics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics

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THE SECOND FERMI LARGE AREA TELESCOPE CATALOG OF GAMMA-RAY PULSARS (2013, methodology): “We compute pulsar rotational phases φi using Tempo2 (Hobbs et al. 2006) with the fermi plug-in (Ray et al. 2011).”
GAMMA-RAY ACTIVITY IN THE CRAB NEBULA: THE EXCEPTIONAL FLARE OF 2011 APRIL (2011, methodology): “To obtain the latter, we extracted 400 pulsar times of arrival (TOAs) from LAT photons collected from MJD 54684 to 55668 with a typical uncertainty of ∼100 μs (Ray et al. 2011).”
Detection of 107 glitches in 36 southern pulsars (2012, unknown): “After the magnetars, large rms variations are found in the high-magnetic-field radio pulsar J1119−6127 and PSR J1838−0453.”