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LOCATION:4274 Chamberlin Hall
SUMMARY:Cosmic Accelerators: Pulsars and Pulsar Wind Nebulae\, NPAC (N
uclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum\, Aous Abdo\, George Mason Universi
ty
DESCRIPTION:The rapid spins and intense magnetic fields (109 - 1014 Gauss) of pulsars accelerate particles to very hig
h energies\, both in their magnetospheres and in relativistic winds\,
powering emission from radio waves to the highest energy gamma-rays. N
ASA's Fermi Gamma-Ray Space Telescope\, launched in 2008\, has
proved to be a powerful tool for studying these systems. Fermi
observations have increased the population of known gamma-ray pulsars
from 6 to more than 100. New classes of gamma-ray pulsars\, including
millisecond and radio-quiet pulsars\, have emerged. With its unprecede
nted sensitivity\, Fermi has transformed our understanding of t
he energetic particle accelerators in our Galaxy and thereby linked ob
servations of the sky at the highest photon energies (1012
eV) with those at the lower end of the electromagnetic spectrum. In my
talk I will discuss some of the new and exciting results from Ferm
i and focus on how these discoveries integrate with the overall pi
cture of pulsars and their nebulae that covers some 20 decades of ener
gy.
URL:https://www.physics.wisc.edu/events/?id=2592
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