Gamma-ray astronomy: An extremely bright gamma-ray pulsar in the Large Magellanic Cloud

Fermi LAT Collaboration

doi:10.1126/science.aac7400

Gamma-ray astronomy: An extremely bright gamma-ray pulsar in the Large Magellanic Cloud

Fermi LAT Collaboration

c/o DESY
Stanford Linear Accelerator Center
University of Pisa
Universite Paris-Saclay
INFN Sezione di Trieste
University of Trieste
University of Padova
INFN
Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Pisa
INFN Sezione di Bari
INFN Sezione di Torino
University of Turin
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Laboratoire Univers et Particules de Montpellier
Consorzio Interuniversitario per la Fisica Spaziale (CIFS)
INAF Istituto di Astrofisica Spaziale e Fisica Cosmica, Milan
INFN Sezione di Perugia
University of Perugia
George Mason University
Naval Research Laboratory
Science and Research Directorate
Osservatorio Astronomico di Roma
INAF Istituto di Radioastronomia
University of Bologna
Università Telematica Pegaso
and Physics University of Udine
Politecnico di Bari
Friedrich-Alexander University (FAU) Erlangen-Nürnberg and Universitätsklinikum Erlangen
UMR 5797
conventionnée avec l'Université d'Orléans
Division Technique
NASA Postdoctoral Program Fellow
Biochemical and Environmental Engineering
University of Southampton
IRAP/CNRS
KTH Royal Institute of Technology
Oskar Klein Centre
University of Sheffield
Hiroshima University
Sezione di Roma
Long Beach VA and University of California
Ev-K2-CNR Committee
Max-Planck-Institut für Physik
University of Innsbruck
University of California at Santa Cruz
University of Hong Kong
Real-Time Computing Inc.
Purdue University Northwest
Pompeu Fabra University (UPF)

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Abstract

Pulsars are rapidly spinning, highly magnetized neutron stars, created in the gravitational collapse of massive stars. We report the detection of pulsed giga-electron volt gamma rays from the young pulsar PSR J0540-6919 in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy of the Milky Way. This is the first gamma-ray pulsar detected in another galaxy. It has the most luminous pulsed gamma-ray emission yet observed, exceeding the Crab pulsar's by a factor of 20. PSR J0540-6919 presents an extreme test case for understanding the structure and evolution of neutron star magnetospheres.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	801-805
Number of pages	5
Journal	Science
Volume	350
Issue number	6262
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aac7400
Publication status	Published - 13 Nov 2015

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Gamma-ray astronomy: An extremely bright gamma-ray pulsar in the Large Magellanic Cloud

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