Gamma-ray pulsars with Fermi

Understand

In 8 years of operation, the Large Area Telescope (LAT) on the Fermi satellite has impacted our understanding of gamma-ray pulsars dramatically.

• The LAT now sees over two hundred pulsars: the largest class of GeV sources in the Milky Way.
• They are diverse -- radio loud versus quiet, young versus millisecond, in evolving binary systems versus isolated, and so on.
• Relatively few of the GeV pulsars have also been seen in soft gamma rays.