Extracting the unresolved pulsar contribution to the gamma-ray background
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Alex Geringer-Sameth
Department of Physics, Brown University, 182 Hope Street, Providence, RI 02912, USA
E-mail: [email protected] (AG-S); [email protected] (SMK)Search for more papers by this authorCorresponding Author
Savvas M. Koushiappas
Department of Physics, Brown University, 182 Hope Street, Providence, RI 02912, USA
E-mail: [email protected] (AG-S); [email protected] (SMK)Search for more papers by this authorCorresponding Author
Alex Geringer-Sameth
Department of Physics, Brown University, 182 Hope Street, Providence, RI 02912, USA
E-mail: [email protected] (AG-S); [email protected] (SMK)Search for more papers by this authorCorresponding Author
Savvas M. Koushiappas
Department of Physics, Brown University, 182 Hope Street, Providence, RI 02912, USA
E-mail: [email protected] (AG-S); [email protected] (SMK)Search for more papers by this authorABSTRACT
We present a statistical framework which can be used to determine the contribution of an unresolved population of pulsars to the gamma-ray background. This formalism is based on the joint analysis of photon time series over extended regions of the sky. We demonstrate the robustness of this technique in controlled simulations of pulsar populations, and show that the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope can be used to detect a pulsar contribution as small as 0.1 per cent of the gamma-ray background. This technique is sensitive to pulsar populations with photon fluxes greater than ∼10−10 cm−2 s−1. The framework is extensible to arbitrarily complex searches for periodicity and can therefore be tailored to specific applications such as all-sky surveys and studies of the Galactic Centre and globular clusters.
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