2001ApJ...556...59C -
Astrophys. J., 556, 59-69 (2001/July-3)
A search for radio-quiet gamma-ray pulsars.
CHANDLER A.M., KOH D.T., LAMB R.C., MACOMB D.J., MATTOX J.R., PRINCE T.A. and RAY P.S.
Abstract (from CDS):
Most Galactic point sources of gamma rays remain unidentified. The few (extrasolar) sources that have been identified are all young, rotation-powered pulsars, all but one of which were identified using radio ephemerides. The radio-quiet Geminga pulsar was identified only after pulsations were discovered in a coincident X-ray source. Observational evidence indicates that many of the unidentified Galactic sources are likely to be pulsars, and some theoretical models predict a potentially large population of radio-quiet gamma-ray pulsars. We present a new method for performing sensitive gamma-ray pulsar searches. We used this method to search several of the strongest EGRET sources for pulsations. This was a blind search for new pulsars, covering a frequency and a frequency-derivative phase space large enough to detect Crab-like pulsars as well as lower frequency, high magnetic field ``magnetars.'' No new pulsars were discovered, and we report upper limits constraining the characteristics of any signals contained in the data sets searched.
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Gamma Rays: Observations - Stars: Pulsars: General
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