6840 Pulsars: A Multitude of Surprising High Energy Results

Saturday, February 18, 2012: 2:00 PM
Room 109 (VCC West Building)
David Smith , Observatoire de Bordeaux, Floirac, France
Fermi has found scores of new pulsars first detected in gamma rays, and has firmly established as a class pulsars that are detected ONLY in gamma rays. These high energy pulsars have significant implications for our understanding of pulsar birth and evolution.