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Einstein@Home discovers a radio-quiet gamma-ray millisecond pulsar

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  • Colin J. Clark
  • Holger J. Pletsch
  • Jason Wu
  • Lucas Guillemot
  • Bruce Allen

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  • Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics (Albert Einstein Institute)
  • University of Manchester
  • Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy (MPIfR)
  • Universite d'Orleans
  • Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS)
  • U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL)
  • George Mason University
  • Square Kilometer Array (SKA)
  • INAF Istituto di Astrofisica Spaziale e Fisica Cosmica, Bologna
  • University of Wisconsin Milwaukee
  • University of California at Berkeley
  • Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY)
  • Clemson University
  • University of Pisa
  • Universite Paris 7
  • Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN)
  • University of Trieste
  • Sezione di Padova
  • University of Padova
  • Sezione di Pisa
  • Politecnico di Bari
  • Stanford University
  • University of Turin
  • NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (NASA-GSFC)
  • Laboratoire Univers et Particules de Montpellier
  • École Polytechnique
  • University of Washington
  • Agenzia Spaziale Italiana (ASI)
  • University of Perugia
  • Sonoma State University
  • Institute for Radio Astronomy (IRA)
  • University of Bologna
  • Istituto Universitario di Studi Superiori (IUSS)
  • University of Udine
  • University of Maryland
  • Hiroshima University
  • Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg)
  • Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile
  • George Washington University
  • University of North Florida
  • University of Iceland
  • NORDITA
  • Royal Institute of Technology (KTH)
  • Stockholm University
  • Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB)
  • Mahidol University
  • Università Telematica Pegaso
  • Max Planck Institute for Physics (Werner-Heisenberg Institute)
  • Osservatorio Astronomico di Trieste
  • Innsbruck Medical University
  • University of California at Santa Cruz
  • The University of Hong Kong
  • NYCB Real-Time Computing Inc.
  • Universite de Bordeaux
  • Catalan Institution for Research and Advanced Studies (ICREA)
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Original languageEnglish
Article numbereaao7228
JournalScience advances
Volume4
Issue number2
Publication statusPublished - 28 Feb 2018

Abstract

Millisecond pulsars (MSPs) are old neutron stars that spin hundreds of times per second and appear to pulsate as their emission beams cross our line of sight. To date,radio pulsations have been detected from all rotation-powered MSPs. In an attempt to discover radio-quiet gamma-ray MSPs,we used the aggregated power from the computers of tens of thousands of volunteers participating in the Einstein@Home distributed computing project to search for pulsations from unidentified gamma-ray sources in Fermi Large Area Telescope data. This survey discovered two isolated MSPs,one of which is the only known rotation-powered MSP to remain undetected in radio observations. These gamma-ray MSPs were discovered in completely blind searches without prior constraints from other observations,raising hopes for detecting MSPs from a predicted Galactic bulge population.

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Einstein@Home discovers a radio-quiet gamma-ray millisecond pulsar. / Clark, Colin J.; Pletsch, Holger J.; Wu, Jason et al.
In: Science advances, Vol. 4, No. 2, eaao7228, 28.02.2018.

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Clark, CJ, Pletsch, HJ, Wu, J, Guillemot, L, Kerr, M, Johnson, TJ, Camilo, F, Salvetti, D, Allen, B, Anderson, D, Aulbert, C, Beer, C, Bock, O, Cuéllar, A, Eggenstein, HB, Fehrmann, H, Kramer, M, Kwang, SA, MacHenschalk, B, Nieder, L, Ackermann, M, Ajello, M, Baldini, L, Ballet, J, Barbiellini, G, Bastieri, D, Bellazzini, R, Bissaldi, E, Blandford, RD, Bloom, ED, Bonino, R, Bottacini, E, Brandt, TJ, Bregeon, J, Bruel, P, Buehler, R, Burnett, TH, Buson, S, Cameron, RA, Caputo, R, Caraveo, PA, Cavazzuti, E, Cecchi, C, Charles, E, Chekhtman, A, Ciprini, S, Cominsky, LR, Costantin, D, Cutini, S, D'Ammando, F, De Luca, A, Desiante, R, Di Venere, L, Di Mauro, M, Di Lalla, N, Digel, SW, Favuzzi, C, Ferrara, EC, Franckowiak, A, Fukazawa, Y, Funk, S, Fusco, P, Gargano, F, Gasparrini, D, Giglietto, N, Giordano, F, Giroletti, M, Gomez-Vargas, GA, Green, D, Grenier, IA, Guiriec, S, Harding, AK, Hewitt, JW, Horan, D, Jóhannesson, G, Kensei, S, Kuss, M, La Mura, G, Larsson, S, Latronico, L, Li, J, Longo, F, Loparco, F, Lovellette, MN, Lubrano, P, Magill, JD, Maldera, S, Manfreda, A, Mazziotta, MN, McEnery, JE, Michelson, PF, Mirabal, N, Mitthumsiri, W, Mizuno, T, Monzani, ME, Morselli, A, Moskalenko, IV, Nuss, E, Ohsugi, T, Omodei, N, Orienti, M, Orlando, E, Palatiello, M, Paliya, VS, De Palma, F, Paneque, D, Perkins, JS, Persic, M, Pesce-Rollins, M, Porter, TA, Principe, G, Rainò, S, Rando, R, Ray, PS, Razzano, M, Reimer, A, Reimer, O, Romani, RW, Parkinson, PMS, Sgrò, C, Siskind, EJ, Smith, DA, Spada, F, Spandre, G, Spinelli, P, Thayer, JB, Thompson, DJ, Torres, DF, Troja, E, Vianello, G, Wood, K & Wood, M 2018, 'Einstein@Home discovers a radio-quiet gamma-ray millisecond pulsar', Science advances, vol. 4, no. 2, eaao7228. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.aao7228
Clark, C. J., Pletsch, H. J., Wu, J., Guillemot, L., Kerr, M., Johnson, T. J., Camilo, F., Salvetti, D., Allen, B., Anderson, D., Aulbert, C., Beer, C., Bock, O., Cuéllar, A., Eggenstein, H. B., Fehrmann, H., Kramer, M., Kwang, S. A., MacHenschalk, B., ... Wood, M. (2018). Einstein@Home discovers a radio-quiet gamma-ray millisecond pulsar. Science advances, 4(2), Article eaao7228. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.aao7228
Clark CJ, Pletsch HJ, Wu J, Guillemot L, Kerr M, Johnson TJ et al. Einstein@Home discovers a radio-quiet gamma-ray millisecond pulsar. Science advances. 2018 Feb 28;4(2):eaao7228. doi: 10.1126/sciadv.aao7228
Clark, Colin J. ; Pletsch, Holger J. ; Wu, Jason et al. / Einstein@Home discovers a radio-quiet gamma-ray millisecond pulsar. In: Science advances. 2018 ; Vol. 4, No. 2.
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AU - Salvetti, David

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AU - Kramer, Michael

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AU - Bruel, Philippe

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AU - Charles, Eric

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AU - Ciprini, Stefano

AU - Cominsky, Lynn R.

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AU - Cutini, Sara

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AU - Desiante, Rachele

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AU - Di Mauro, Mattia

AU - Di Lalla, Niccolò

AU - Digel, Seth W.

AU - Favuzzi, Cecilia

AU - Ferrara, Elizabeth C.

AU - Franckowiak, Anna

AU - Fukazawa, Yasushi

AU - Funk, Stefan

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AU - Moskalenko, Igor V.

AU - Nuss, Eric

AU - Ohsugi, Takashi

AU - Omodei, Nicola

AU - Orienti, Monica

AU - Orlando, Elena

AU - Palatiello, Michele

AU - Paliya, Vaidehi S.

AU - De Palma, Francesco

AU - Paneque, David

AU - Perkins, Jeremy S.

AU - Persic, Massimo

AU - Pesce-Rollins, Melissa

AU - Porter, Troy A.

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AU - Rainò, Silvia

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AU - Ray, Paul S.

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AU - Spandre, Gloria

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N1 - Funding Information: We are grateful to the thousands of volunteers who have supported Einstein@Home. We also thank those volunteers whose computers discovered the new MSPs: PSR J1035-6720: "WSyS"; K. Kovacs,of Seattle,WA,USA,and the ATLAS Cluster,AEI,Hannover,Germany; PSR J1744-7619: D. Hoberer,of Gainesville,TX,USA,and the ATLAS Cluster,AEI,Hannover,Germany; I. Yakushin of Chicago,IL,USA,and the LIGO Laboratory,USA; and K. Pickstone of Oldham,UK. This work was supported by the Max-Planck-Gesellschaft,the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft through an Emmy Noether Research Grant [no. PL 710/1-1 (H.J.P.)],and NSF award 1104902. C.J.C. acknowledges support from the European Research Council under the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (grant agreement no. 715051; Spiders). W.M. was partially supported by the Thailand Research Fund (grants TRG5880173 and RTA5980003). M.R. was funded by the Italian Ministry of Education,University and Research (contract no. FIRB-2012-RBFR12PM1F). Work at the Naval Research Laboratory is supported by NASA. The Parkes Observatory is part of the Australia Telescope,funded by the Commonwealth of Australia for operation as a National Facility managed by the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO). The Fermi LAT Collaboration acknowledges generous ongoing support from a number of agencies and institutes that have supported both the development and the operation of the LAT,as well as scientific data analysis. These include the National Aeronautics and Space Administration and the Department of Energy in the United States,the Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique and the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique/Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules in France; the Agenzia Spaziale Italiana and the Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare in Italy,the Ministry of Education,Culture,Sports,Science and Technology (MEXT),High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (KEK),and Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) in Japan; and the K. A. Wallenberg Foundation,the Swedish Research Council,and the Swedish National Space Board in Sweden. Additional support for science analysis during the operations phase is gratefully acknowledged from the Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica in Italy and the Centre National d'Études Spatiales in France. This work performed in part under DOE Contract DE-AC02-76SF00515.

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