A Search for Pulsed Very High-energy Gamma-Rays from 13 Young Pulsars in Archival VERITAS Data
- Archer, A.
- Benbow, W.
- Finley, J. P.
- Fortson, L.
- Furniss, A.
- Gent, A.
- Gueta, O.
- Hanna, D.
- Hassan, T.
- Hervet, O.
- Holder, J.
- Hughes, G.
- Bird, R.
- Humensky, T. B.
- Johnson, C. A.
- Kaaret, P.
- Kar, P.
- Kelley-Hoskins, Nathan
- Kertzman, M.
- Kieda, D.
- Krennrich, F.
- Kumar, S.
- Lang, M. J.
- Brose, Robert
- Lin, T. T. Y.
- McCann, A.
- Moriarty, P.
- Mukherjee, R.
- O’Brien, S.
- Ong, R. A.
- Otte, A. N.
- Pandel, D.
- Park, N.
- Petrashyk, A.
- Buchovecky, M.
- Pohl, M.
- Pueschel, Elisa
- Quinn, J.
- Ragan, K.
- Richards, G. T.
- Roache, E.
- Sadeh, I.
- Santander, M.
- Scott, S. S.
- Sembroski, G. H.
- Buckley, J. H.
- Shahinyan, K.
- Sushch, I.
- Tyler, J.
- Wakely, S. P.
- Weinstein, A.
- Wells, R. M.
- Wilcox, P.
- Wilhelm, Alina
- Williams, D. A.
- Williamson, T. J
- Chromey, A. J.
- Zitzer, B.
- Cui, W.
- Falcone, A.
- Feng, Q.
DOIAbstract
We conduct a search for periodic emission in the very high-energy (VHE) gamma-ray band (E > 100 GeV) from a total of 13 pulsars in an archival VERITAS data set with a total exposure of over 450 hr. The set of pulsars includes many of the brightest young gamma-ray pulsars visible in the Northern Hemisphere. The data analysis resulted in nondetections of pulsed VHE gamma-rays from each pulsar. Upper limits on a potential VHE gamma-ray flux are derived at the 95% confidence level above three energy thresholds using two methods. These are the first such searches for pulsed VHE emission from each of the pulsars, and the obtained limits constrain a possible flux component manifesting at VHEs as is seen for the Crab pulsar
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