S. M. Ransom et al. 2011 ApJ 727 L16 doi:10.1088/2041-8205/727/1/L16
S. M. Ransom1, P. S. Ray2, F. Camilo3, M. S. E. Roberts4, Ö. Çelik5,6,7, M. T. Wolff2, C. C. Cheung8,21, M. Kerr9, T. Pennucci10, M. E. DeCesar5,11, I. Cognard12, A. G. Lyne13, B. W. Stappers13, P. C. C. Freire14, J. E. Grove2, A. A. Abdo8, G. Desvignes15,16, D. Donato6,11, E. C. Ferrara5, N. Gehrels5, L. Guillemot14, C. Gwon2, A. K. Harding5, S. Johnston17, M. Keith17, M. Kramer13,14, P. F. Michelson9, D. Parent18,21, P. M. Saz Parkinson19, R. W. Romani9, D. A. Smith20, G. Theureau12, D. J. Thompson5, P. Weltevrede13, K. S. Wood2, and M. Ziegler19
Show affiliationsWe searched for radio pulsars in 25 of the non-variable, unassociated sources in the Fermi LAT Bright Source List with the Green Bank Telescope at 820 MHz. We report the discovery of three radio and γ-ray millisecond pulsars (MSPs) from a high Galactic latitude subset of these sources. All of the pulsars are in binary systems, which would have made them virtually impossible to detect in blind γ-ray pulsation searches. They seem to be relatively normal, nearby (≤2 kpc) MSPs. These observations, in combination with the Fermi detection of γ-rays from other known radio MSPs, imply that most, if not all, radio MSPs are efficient γ-ray producers. The γ-ray spectra of the pulsars are power law in nature with exponential cutoffs at a few GeV, as has been found with most other pulsars. The MSPs have all been detected as X-ray point sources. Their soft X-ray luminosities of ~1030-1031 erg s–1 are typical of the rare radio MSPs seen in X-rays.
pulsars: general; pulsars: individual (J0614–3329, J1231–1411, J2214+3000)
Issue 1 (2011 January 20)
Received 2010 August 17, accepted for publication 2010 December 8
Published 2010 December 23
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S. M. Ransom et al. 2011 ApJ 727 L16