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Latest results on gamma-ray pulsars with Fermi
The Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) has been scanning the gamma-ray sky
since 2008. The number of pulsars detected by the LAT now exceeds 200, making
them by far the largest class of Galactic gamma-ray emitters. I discuss some of
the latest pulsar discoveries made by the LAT, in particular those made since
the release of the Pass 8 data.Comment: 5 pages, to appear in Il Nuovo Cimento
Fermi-LAT searches for gamma-ray pulsars
The Large Area Telescope (LAT) on the Fermi satellite is the first gamma-ray
instrument to discover pulsars directly via their gamma-ray emission. Roughly
one third of the 117 gamma-ray pulsars detected by the LAT in its first three
years were discovered in blind searches of gamma-ray data and most of these are
undetectable with current radio telescopes. I review some of the key LAT
results and highlight the specific challenges faced in gamma-ray (compared to
radio) searches, most of which stem from the long, sparse data sets and the
broad, energy-dependent point-spread function (PSF) of the LAT. I discuss some
ongoing LAT searches for gamma-ray millisecond pulsars (MSPs) and gamma-ray
pulsars around the Galactic Center. Finally, I outline the prospects for future
gamma-ray pulsar discoveries as the LAT enters its extended mission phase,
including advantages of a possible modification of the LAT observing profile.Comment: Proceedings of the IAU Symposium 291, IAU XXVIII General Assembly,
Beijing, China, August 2012: "Neutron Stars and Pulsars: Challenges and
Opportunities after 80 years", Editor: Joeri van Leeuwen. To be published by
Cambridge University Press. 6 page
VB-groupoids and representation theory of Lie groupoids
A VB-groupoid is a Lie groupoid equipped with a compatible linear structure.
In this paper, we describe a correspondence, up to isomorphism, between
VB-groupoids and 2-term representations up to homotopy of Lie groupoids. Under
this correspondence, the tangent bundle of a Lie groupoid G corresponds to the
"adjoint representation" of G. The value of this point of view is that the
tangent bundle is canonical, whereas the adjoint representation is not.
We define a cochain complex that is canonically associated to any
VB-groupoid. The cohomology of this complex is isomorphic to the groupoid
cohomology with values in the corresponding representations up to homotopy.
When applied to the tangent bundle of a Lie groupoid, this construction
produces a canonical complex that computes the cohomology with values in the
adjoint representation.
Finally, we give a classification of regular 2-term representations up to
homotopy. By considering the adjoint representation, we find a new
cohomological invariant associated to regular Lie groupoids.Comment: v5: Introduction is completely rewritten, many other improvements in
the exposition. v6: Implements numerous corrections and changes suggested by
referees, most notably a significant simplification of the calculations in
Appendix A.2. Final version, to appear in J. Symp. Geo
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