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pulsars (Public List of LAT-Detected Gamma-Ray Pulsars)
Description
Fermi Large Area Telescope List of Detected Pulsars https://confluence.slac.stanford.edu/display/GLAMCOG/Public+List+of+LAT-Detected+Gamma-Ray+Pulsars
Usage
pulsars
Format
A data frame with 8 variables on 205 gamma-ray pulsars:
Details
Last Updated: 2016-02-22
Fields
- PSR
Pulsar name, PSR JHHMM+DDMM, constructed using the RA and Dec
- RAJ_deg
Right Ascension, J2000, degrees
- DECJ_deg
Declination, J2000, degrees
- P_ms
Period, milliseconds
- Edot
Spin-down luminosity, erg/s
- Codes
b=Pulsar is in a binary system, e=Pulsar was detected in gamma rays by EGRET/COMPTEL, g=Discovered in LAT gamma-ray data, m=Millisecond pulsar, p=Pulsar was discovered by the PSC, r=Discovered in the radio and/or Gamma-ray pulsations detected using the radio ephemeris, u=Discovered using a Fermi-LAT seed position, x=Discovered in the x-ray and/or Gamma-ray pulsations detected using the X-ray ephemeris.
- Refs
References (see web page for details)
- date_public
Date made public (all gamma-ray pulsars announced prior to 2016 are listed as being announced 2014-11-06)
Source
https://confluence.slac.stanford.edu/display/GLAMCOG/Public+List+of+LAT-Detected+Gamma-Ray+Pulsars