Fermi Large Area Telescope Reveals Pulsing Gamma-ray Sources
Wednesday, September 9, 2009 - 15:28
in Astronomy & Space
Scientists have positively identified cosmic sources of gamma-ray emissions through the discovery of 16 pulsating neutron stars. Using the Large Area Telescope, the primary instrument on NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope satellite, the discoveries were made by conducting blind frequency searches on the sparse photon data provided by the LAT.