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Future Facilities for Gamma-Ray Pulsar Studies

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 July 2016

D. J. Thompson
D. J. Thompson*
Affiliation:
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland, USA, and GLAST Large Area Telescope Collaboration

Abstract

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Pulsars seen at gamma-ray energies offer insight into particle acceleration to very high energies, along with information about the geometry and interaction processes in the magnetospheres of these rotating neutron stars. During the next decade, a number of new gamma-ray facilities will become available for pulsar studies. This brief review describes the motivation for gamma-ray pulsar studies, the opportunities for such studies, and some specific discussion of the capabilities of the Gamma-ray Large Area Space Telescope (GLAST) Large Area Telescope (LAT) for pulsar measurements.

Type
Part 9: Optical, X-ray and Gamma-ray Observations
Information
Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 218: Young Neutrons Stars and their Environments , 2004 , pp. 399 - 406
Copyright
Copyright © Astronomical Society of the Pacific 2004 

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