Detection of the characteristic pion-decay signature in supernova remnants

…, S Buson, GA Caliandro, RA Cameron, PA Caraveo…�- Science, 2013 - science.org
Cosmic rays are particles (mostly protons) accelerated to relativistic speeds. Despite wide
agreement that supernova remnants (SNRs) are the sources of galactic cosmic rays, …

The second Fermi Large Area Telescope catalog of gamma-ray pulsars

…, RA Cameron, F Camilo, PA Caraveo…�- The Astrophysical�…, 2013 - iopscience.iop.org
This catalog summarizes 117 high-confidence⩾ 0. 1 GeV gamma-ray pulsar detections using
three years of data acquired by the Large Area Telescope (LAT) on the Fermi satellite. Half …

Observations of the young supernova remnant RX J1713. 7− 3946 with the Fermi Large Area Telescope

…, GA Caliandro, RA Cameron, PA Caraveo…�- The Astrophysical�…, 2011 - iopscience.iop.org
We present observations of the young supernova remnant (SNR) RX J1713. 7− 3946 with the
Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT). We clearly detect a source positionally coincident with …

A statistical approach to recognizing source classes for unassociated sources in the first Fermi-LAT catalog

…, GA Caliandro, RA Cameron, PA Caraveo…�- The Astrophysical�…, 2012 - iopscience.iop.org
The Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) First Source Catalog (1FGL) provided spatial,
spectral, and temporal properties for a large number of γ-ray sources using a uniform analysis …

The distance to the Vela pulsar gauged with hubble space telescope parallax observations

PA Caraveo, A De Luca, RP Mignani…�- The Astrophysical�…, 2001 - iopscience.iop.org
… of the Vela pulsar (De Luca, Mignani, & Caraveo 2000) and to quantify the overall reliability
of our astrometric approach (De Luca, Mignani, & Caraveo 2001). In the following we shall …

Determination of the point-spread function for the Fermi large area telescope from on-orbit data and limits on pair halos of active galactic nuclei

…, GA Caliandro, RA Cameron, PA Caraveo…�- The Astrophysical�…, 2013 - iopscience.iop.org
… them as σ(R 68 , R 95 ) and γ(R 68 , R 95 ). We model the energy dependence of the 68%
and 95% containment radii with two independent scaling functions, R 68 (E) and R 95 (E), …

XMM-Newton and VLT observations of the isolated neutron star 1E 1207.4–5209

…, PA Caraveo, M Moroni, RP Mignani…�- Astronomy &�…, 2004 - aanda.org
… No candidate counterpart is detected in the Chandra error circle (nor in the intersection of
the MOS ones) down to R ∼ 27.1 and V ∼ 27.3, which we assume as upper limits on the …

Early X-ray and optical observations of the soft gamma-ray repeater SGR 0418+ 5729

…, S Zane, N Rea, V Testa, PA Caraveo…�- Monthly Notices of�…, 2010 - academic.oup.com
… The flux is then F∝R 2 T 4 , where R and T are the radius and temperature of the cap, … of a
cap, the emitting area decreases as R 2 ∝t −0.08 and R 2 ∝t −0.97 before and after the break…

[HTML][HTML] HST/WFPC2 observations of the LMC pulsar PSR B0540–69

…, A Słowikowska, G Kanbach, PA Caraveo�- Astronomy &�…, 2010 - aanda.org
… About 40 years after identification of the optical counterpart of the Crab pulsar, only a few
rotation-powered pulsars have been identified in the optical domain (see Mignani 2009a,b, for …

The optical spectrum of the Vela pulsar

RP Mignani, S Zharikov, PA Caraveo�- Astronomy & Astrophysics, 2007 - aanda.org
Context.Our knowledge of the optical spectra of Isolated Neutron Stars (INSs) is limited by
their intrinsic faintness. Among the fourteen optically identified INSs, medium resolution …