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Search for the Next Very-High-Energy Pulsar

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While over 200 pulsars are known to emit gamma rays in the MeV to GeV regime, only two pulsars have been detected at Very High Energy (vhe, \({\gtrsim }100\) GeV) so far: the Crab pulsar in the Northern Hemisphere and the Vela pulsar in the Southern Hemisphere.

Among the 27 associations with known pulsars, we find 20 with significant pulsations above 10 GeV, and 12 with pulsations above 25 GeV, suggesting that the Crab pulsar will not remain the only pulsar to be detected by current and future IACTs.

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Notes

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    https://pshk.org.hk/, last accessed 20/06/2017.

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    https://github.com/gammapy/enrico/.

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    https://fermi.gsfc.nasa.gov/ssc/data/analysis/documentation/.

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    https://fermi.gsfc.nasa.gov/ssc/data/analysis/user/Fermi_plug_doc.pdf, last accessed 26/06/2017.

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    For this fitting procedure we make use of the GeoTOA tool developed by M. Kerr and P. Ray (https://fermi.gsfc.nasa.gov/ssc/data/analysis/user/GeoTOA_README.txt, last accessed 02/04/2018).

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    http://dan.iel.fm/emcee/current, last accessed 26/06/2017.

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    http://www.atnf.csiro.au/research/pulsar/psrcat/, last accessed 28/06/2017.

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Carreto Fidalgo, D. (2019). Search for the Next Very-High-Energy Pulsar. In: Revealing the Most Energetic Light from Pulsars and Their Nebulae. Springer Theses. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-24194-0_7

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