# DISCOVERY OF NINE GAMMA-RAY PULSARS IN FERMI LARGE AREA TELESCOPE DATA USING A NEW BLIND SEARCH METHOD

@article{Pletsch2011DISCOVERYON,
title={DISCOVERY OF NINE GAMMA-RAY PULSARS IN FERMI LARGE AREA TELESCOPE DATA USING A NEW BLIND SEARCH METHOD},
author={H. J. Pletsch and Lucas Guillemot and Bruce Allen and Michael Kramer and Carsten Aulbert and Henning Fehrmann and Paul S. Ray and Ewan D. Barr and Andrea Belfiore and Fernando Camilo and Patrizia A. Caraveo and O. Celik and David J. Champion and Michael H. Dormody and Ralph P. Eatough and Elizabeth C. Ferrara and Paulo C. C. Freire and Jason W. T. Hessels and Michael J. Keith and Matthew Kerr and Andrea De Luca and Andrew G. Lyne and Martino Marelli and Maura Mclaughlin and Damien Parent and Scott M. Ransom and Massimiliano Razzano and Wolfgang Reich and P. M. Saz Parkinson and Ben W. Stappers and Michael T. Wolff},
journal={The Astrophysical Journal},
year={2011},
volume={744},
pages={105}
}
• Published 2 November 2011
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• The Astrophysical Journal
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 hierarchical search method originally developed for detecting continuous gravitational waves from rapidly rotating neutron stars. Designed to find isolated pulsars spinning at up to kHz frequencies, the new method is computationally efficient and incorporates several advances, including a metric-based gridding of the search…

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