Einstein@Home discovery of four young gamma-ray pulsars in Fermi LAT data
@article{Pletsch2013EinsteinHomeDO, title={Einstein@Home discovery of four young gamma-ray pulsars in Fermi LAT data}, author={H. J. Pletsch and Lucas Guillemot and Bruce Allen and David P. Anderson and Carsten Aulbert and Oliver Bock and David J. Champion and Heinz-Bernd Eggenstein and Henning Fehrmann and David Hammer and Ramesh Karuppusamy and Michael J. Keith and Michael Kramer and Bernd Machenschalk and Cherry Ng and Maria Alessandra Papa and Paul S. Ray and Xavier Siemens}, journal={The Astrophysical Journal}, year={2013}, volume={779} }
We report the discovery of four gamma-ray pulsars, detected in computing-intensive blind searches of data from the Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT). The pulsars were found using a novel search approach, combining volunteer distributed computing via Einstein@Home and methods originally developed in gravitational-wave astronomy. The pulsars PSRs J0554+3107, J1422–6138, J1522–5735, and J1932+1916 are young and energetic, with characteristic ages between 35 and 56 kyr and spin-down powers in the…
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