An extremely bright gamma-ray pulsar in the Large Magellanic Cloud
- Ackermann, M.
- Albert, A.
- Baldini, L.
- Ballet, J.
- Barbiellini, G.
- Barbieri, C.
- Bastieri, D.
- Bellazzini, R.
- Bissaldi, E.
- Bonino, R.
- Bottacini, E.
- Brandt, T. J.
- Bregeon, J.
- Bruel, P.
- Buehler, R.
- Caliandro, G. A.
- Cameron, R. A.
- Caraveo, P. A.
- Cecchi, C.
- Charles, E.
- Chekhtman, A.
- Cheung, C. C.
- Chiang, J.
- Chiaro, G.
- Ciprini, S.
- Cohen Tanugi, J.
- Cuoco, A.
- Cutini, S.
- D'Ammando, F.
- De Palma, F.
- Desiante, R.
- Digel, S. W.
- Di Venere, L.
- Drell, P. S.
- Favuzzi, C.
- Fegan, S. J.
- Ferrara, E. C.
- Franckowiak, A.
- Funk, S.
- Fusco, P.
- Gargano, F.
- Gasparrini, D.
- Giglietto, N.
- Giordano, F.
- Godfrey, G.
- Grenier, I. A.
- Grondin, M. H.
- Grove, J. E.
- Guillemot, L.
- Guiriec, S.
- Hagiwara, K.
- Harding, A. K.
- Hays, E.
- Hewitt, J. W.
- Hill, A. B.
- Horan, D.
- Johnson, T. J.
- Kn\uf6dlseder, J.
- Kuss, M.
- Larsson, S.
- Latronico, L.
- Lemoine Goumard, M.
- Li, J.
- Li, L.
- Longo, Francesco
- Loparco, F.
- Lovellette, M. N.
- Lubrano, P.
- Maldera, S.
- Manfreda, A.
- Marshall, F
- Martin, P.
- Mayer, M.
- Mazziotta, M. N.
- Michelson, P. F.
- Mirabal, N.
- Mizuno, T.
- Monzani, M. E.
- Morselli, A.
- Moskalenko, I. V.
- Murgia, S.
- Naletto, G.
- Nuss, E.
- Ohsugi, T.
- Orienti, M.
- Orlando, E.
- Paneque, D.
- Pesce Rollins, M.
- Piron, F.
- Pivato, G.
- Porter, T. A.
- Rain\uf2, S.
- Rando, R.
- Razzano, M.
- Reimer, A.
- Reimer, O.
- Reposeur, T.
- Romani, R. W.
- Parkinson, P. M. Saz
- Schulz, A.
- Sgr\uf2, C.
- Siskind, E. J.
- Smith, D. A.
- Spada, F.
- Spandre, G.
- Spinelli, P.
- Suson, D. J.
- Takahashi, H.
- Thayer, J. B.
- Thompson, D. J.
- Tibaldo, L.
- Torres, D. F.
- Uchiyama, Y.
- Vianello, G.
- Wood, K. S.
- Wood, M.
- Zampieri, L.
Publication date
January 2015
DOI Publisher
American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)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\u2019s by a factor of 20. PSR J0540-6919 presents an extreme test case for understanding the structure and evolution of neutron star magnetospheres
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