The Third Fermi Large Area Telescope Catalog of Gamma-Ray Pulsars

Smith, D. A.; Abdollahi, S.; Ajello, M.; Bailes, M.; Baldini, L.; Ballet, J.; Baring, M. G.; Bassa, C.; Gonzalez, J. Becerra; Bellazzini, R.; Berretta, A.; Bhattacharyya, B.; Bissaldi, E.; Bonino, R.; Bottacini, E.; Bregeon, J.; Bruel, P.; Burgay, M.; Burnett, T. H.; Cameron, R. A.; Camilo, F.; Caputo, R.; Caraveo, P. A.; Cavazzuti, E.; Chiaro, G.; Ciprini, S.; Clark, C. J.; Cognard, I.; Corongiu, A.; Orestano, P. Cristarella; Crnogorcevic, M.; Cuoco, A.; Cutini, S.; D’Ammando, F.; de Angelis, A.; Decesar, M. E.; De Gaetano, S.; de Menezes, R.; Deneva, J.; de Palma, F.; Di Lalla, N.; Dirirsa, F.; Di Venere, L.; Domínguez, A.; Dumora, D.; Fegan, S. J.; Ferrara, E. C.; Fiori, A.; Fleischhack, H.; Flynn, C.; Franckowiak, A.; Freire, P. C. C.; Fukazawa, Y.; Fusco, P.; Galanti, G.; Gammaldi, V.; Gargano, F.; Gasparrini, D.; Giacchino, F.; Giglietto, N.; Giordano, F.; Giroletti, M.; Green, D.; Grenier, I. A.; Guillemot, L.; Guiriec, S.; Gustafsson, M.; Harding, A. K.; Hays, E.; Hewitt, J. W.; Horan, D.; Hou, X.; Jankowski, F.; Johnson, R. P.; Johnson, T. J.; Johnston, S.; Kataoka, J.; Keith, M. J.; Kerr, M.; Kramer, M.; Kuss, M.; Latronico, L.; Lee, S. -H.; Li, D.; Li, J.; Limyansky, B.; Longo, F.; Loparco, F.; Lorusso, L.; Lovellette, M. N.; Lower, M.; Lubrano, P.; Lyne, A. G.; Maan, Y.; Maldera, S.; Manchester, R. N.; Manfreda, A.; Marelli, M.; Martí-Devesa, G.; Mazziotta, M. N.; Mcenery, J. E.; Mereu, I.; Michelson, P. F.; Mickaliger, M.; Mitthumsiri, W.; Mizuno, T.; Moiseev, A. A.; Monzani, M. E.; Morselli, A.; Negro, M.; Nemmen, R.; Nieder, L.; Nuss, E.; Omodei, N.; Orienti, M.; Orlando, E.; Ormes, J. F.; Palatiello, M.; Paneque, D.; Panzarini, G.; Parthasarathy, A.; Persic, M.; Pesce-Rollins, M.; Pillera, R.; Poon, H.; Porter, T. A.; Possenti, A.; Principe, G.; Rainò, S.; Rando, R.; Ransom, S. M.; Ray, P. S.; Razzano, M.; Razzaque, S.; Reimer, A.; Reimer, O.; Renault-Tinacci, N.; Romani, R. W.; Sánchez-Conde, M.; Parkinson, P. M. Saz; Scotton, L.; Serini, D.; Sgrò, C.; Shannon, R.; Sharma, V.; Shen, Z.; Siskind, E. J.; Spandre, G.; Spinelli, P.; Stappers, B. W.; Stephens, T. E.; Suson, D. J.; Tabassum, S.; Tajima, H.; Tak, D.; Theureau, G.; Thompson, D. J.; Tibolla, O.; Torres, D. F.; Valverde, J.; Venter, C.; Wadiasingh, Z.; Wang, N.; Wang, N.; Wang, P.; Weltevrede, P.; Wood, K.; Yan, J.; Zaharijas, G.; Zhang, C.; Zhu, W.

doi:10.3847/1538-4357/acee67

We present 294 pulsars found in GeV data from the Large Area Telescope (LAT) on the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope. Another 33 millisecond pulsars (MSPs) discovered in deep radio searches of LAT sources will likely reveal pulsations once phase-connected rotation ephemerides are achieved. A further dozen optical and/or X-ray binary systems colocated with LAT sources also likely harbor gamma-ray MSPs. This catalog thus reports roughly 340 gamma-ray pulsars and candidates, 10% of all known pulsars, compared to <= 11 known before Fermi. Half of the gamma-ray pulsars are young. Of these, the half that are undetected in radio have a broader Galactic latitude distribution than the young radio-loud pulsars. The others are MSPs, with six undetected in radio. Overall, >= 236 are bright enough above 50 MeV to fit the pulse profile, the energy spectrum, or both. For the common two-peaked profiles, the gamma-ray peak closest to the magnetic pole crossing generally has a softer spectrum. The spectral energy distributions tend to narrow as the spindown power E decreases to its observed minimum near 1033 erg s-1, approaching the shape for synchrotron radiation from monoenergetic electrons. We calculate gamma-ray luminosities when distances are available. Our all-sky gamma-ray sensitivity map is useful for population syntheses. The electronic catalog version provides gamma-ray pulsar ephemerides, properties, and fit results to guide and be compared with modeling results.