pulsars: pulsars (Public List of LAT-Detected Gamma-Ray Pulsars)

In sazpark/fermicatsR: Fermi Large Area Telescope Catalogs

Description

Fermi Large Area Telescope List of Detected Pulsars https://confluence.slac.stanford.edu/display/GLAMCOG/Public+List+of+LAT-Detected+Gamma-Ray+Pulsars

Usage

pulsars

Format

A data frame with 8 variables on 205 gamma-ray pulsars:

Details

Last Updated: 2016-02-22

Fields

PSR

Pulsar name, PSR JHHMM+DDMM, constructed using the RA and Dec

RAJ_deg

Right Ascension, J2000, degrees

DECJ_deg

Declination, J2000, degrees

P_ms

Period, milliseconds

Edot

Spin-down luminosity, erg/s

Codes

b=Pulsar is in a binary system, e=Pulsar was detected in gamma rays by EGRET/COMPTEL, g=Discovered in LAT gamma-ray data, m=Millisecond pulsar, p=Pulsar was discovered by the PSC, r=Discovered in the radio and/or Gamma-ray pulsations detected using the radio ephemeris, u=Discovered using a Fermi-LAT seed position, x=Discovered in the x-ray and/or Gamma-ray pulsations detected using the X-ray ephemeris.

Refs

References (see web page for details)

date_public

Date made public (all gamma-ray pulsars announced prior to 2016 are listed as being announced 2014-11-06)

Source

https://confluence.slac.stanford.edu/display/GLAMCOG/Public+List+of+LAT-Detected+Gamma-Ray+Pulsars

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