Identification of candidate millisecond pulsars from Fermi LAT observations
摘要
We report our detailed data analysis of 39 γ-ray sources selected from the 992 unassociated sources in the third Fermi Large Area Telescope Third Source Catalog.The selection criteria,which were set for finding candidate millisecond pulsars(MSPs),are non-variables with curved spectra and >5?Galactic latitudes.From our analysis,24 sources were found to be point-like sources not contaminated by background or nearby unknown sources.Three of them,J1544.6-1125,J1625.1-0021 and J1653.6-0158,have been previously studied,indicating that they are likely MSPs.The spectra of J0318.1+0252 and J2053.9+2922 do not have properties similar to known γ-ray MSPs,and we thus suggest that they are not MSPs.Analysis of archival X-ray data for most of the 24 sources was also conducted.Four sources were found with X-ray objects in their error circles,and 16 with no detection.The ratios between the γ-ray fluxes and X-ray fluxes or flux upper limits are generally lower than those of known γ-ray MSPs,suggesting that if the γ-ray sources are MSPs,none of the X-ray objects are their counterparts.Deep X-ray or radio observations of these sources are needed in order to identify their MSP nature.