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THREE MILLISECOND PULSARS IN FERMI LAT UNASSOCIATED BRIGHT SOURCES

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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

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We 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.


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pulsars: general; pulsars: individual (J0614–3329, J1231–1411, J2214+3000)


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Issue 1 (2011 January 20)

Received 2010 August 17, accepted for publication 2010 December 8

Published 2010 December 23

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