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Astrophysics, High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, astro-ph.HE
Abstract:
We present 294 pulsars found in GeV data from the Large Area Telescope (LAT)
on the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope. Another 33 millisecond pulsars (MSPs)
discovered in deep radio searches of LAT sources will likely reveal pulsations
once phase-connected rotation ephemerides are achieved. A further dozen optical
and/or X-ray binary systems co-located with LAT sources also likely harbor
gamma-ray MSPs. This catalog thus reports roughly 340 gamma-ray pulsars and
candidates, 10% of all known pulsars, compared to $\leq 11$ known before Fermi.
Half of the gamma-ray pulsars are young. Of these, the half that are undetected
in radio have a broader Galactic latitude distribution than the young
radio-loud pulsars. The others are MSPs, with 6 undetected in radio. Overall,
>235 are bright enough above 50 MeV to fit the pulse profile, the energy
spectrum, or both. For the common two-peaked profiles, the gamma-ray peak
closest to the magnetic pole crossing generally has a softer spectrum. The
spectral energy distributions tend to narrow as the spindown power $\dot E$
decreases to its observed minimum near $10^{33}$ erg s$^{-1}$, approaching the
shape for synchrotron radiation from monoenergetic electrons. We calculate
gamma-ray luminosities when distances are available. Our all-sky gamma-ray
sensitivity map is useful for population syntheses. The electronic catalog
version provides gamma-ray pulsar ephemerides, properties and fit results to
guide and be compared with modeling results.
