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P814 - Millisecond pulsar searches in unidentified Fermi sources at high Galactic latitudes

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Title P814 - Millisecond pulsar searches in unidentified Fermi sources at high Galactic latitudes
 
Subject Astronomical and Space Sciences not elsewhere classified
 
Description Neutron stars contain more mass than the Sun collapsed into the size of
a city. Many of these neutron stars rotate rapidly and emit beams of
radio waves that we can detect on Earth, in lighthouse-like fashion.
While the radio pulses enable us to detect many of these pulsars,
the energy they carry is puny. Some pulsars also emit gamma rays, the
most energetic photons in the electromagnetic spectrum. Studying the
combined gamma-ray and radio emission from a large sample of pulsars
will help us to understand how these mysterious and extreme stars work.
In this project, we will search for radio pulsations from the locations
of gamma ray sources detected with the Fermi satellite. So far the
origin of these gamma rays is unknown, but there is a good chance that
they arise from pulsars.
 
Publisher CSIRO
 
Date 2022-06-19
 
Identifier csiro:P814
 
Language eng