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FERMI LARGE AREA TELESCOPE OBSERVATIONS OF PSR J1836+5925

Journal

ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL
Volume 712, Issue 2, Pages 1209-1218

Publisher

IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.1088/0004-637X/712/2/1209

Keywords

gamma rays: general; pulsars: general; pulsars: individual (PSR J1836+5925)

Funding

  1. National Aeronautics and Space Administration
  2. Department of Energy in the United States
  3. Commissariat a l'Energie Atomique
  4. Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique/Institut National de Physique Nucleaire et de Physique des Particules in France
  5. Agenzia Spaziale Italiana
  6. Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare in Italy
  7. Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT)
  8. High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (KEK)
  9. Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) in Japan
  10. K. A. Wallenberg Foundation
  11. Swedish Research Council
  12. Swedish National Space Board in Sweden
  13. Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica in Italy
  14. Centre National d' Etudes Spatiales in France
  15. ICREA Funding Source: Custom

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The discovery of the gamma-ray pulsar PSR J1836+5925, powering the formerly unidentified EGRET source 3EG J1835+5918, was one of the early accomplishments of the Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT). Sitting 25 degrees off the Galactic plane, PSR J1836+5925 is a 173 ms pulsar with a characteristic age of 1.8 million years, a spindown luminosity of 1.1 x 10(34) erg s(-1), and a large off-peak (OP) emission component, making it quite unusual among the known gamma-ray pulsar population. We present an analysis of one year of LAT data, including an updated timing solution, detailed spectral results, and a long-term light curve showing no indication of variability. No evidence for a surrounding pulsar wind nebula is seen and the spectral characteristics of the OP emission indicate it is likely magnetospheric. Analysis of recent XMM-Newton observations of the X-ray counterpart yields a detailed characterization of its spectrum, which, like Geminga, is consistent with that of a neutron star showing evidence for both magnetospheric and thermal emission.

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