Fermi LAT Reveals Pulsing Gamma-Ray Sources

Washington DC (SPX) Sep 11, 2009 -
Scientists at the Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) Space Science Division and a team of international researchers have positively identified cosmic sources of gamma-ray emissions through the discovery of 16 pulsating neutron stars. Using the Large Area Telescope (LAT), the primary instrument on NASA’s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope satellite, the discoveries were made by conducting blind frequency searches on the sparse photon data provided by the LAT.

http://www.spacedaily.com/reports/Fermi_LAT_Reveals_Pulsing_Gamma_Ray_Sources_999.html