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DTSTART:20120209T220000Z
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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 (10<sup>9</sup
 > - 10<sup>14</sup> 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 <i>Fermi</i> Gamma-Ray Space Telescope\, launched in 2008\, has 
 proved to be a powerful tool for studying these systems. <i>Fermi</i> 
 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\, <i>Fermi</i> 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 (10<sup>12</sup> 
 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 <i>Ferm
 i</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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