{
  "id": "1702.00474",
  "version": "v1",
  "published": "2017-02-01T22:06:54.000Z",
  "updated": "2017-02-01T22:06:54.000Z",
  "title": "A multi-wavelength investigation of candidate milli-second pulsars in unassociated gamma-ray sources",
  "authors": [
    "D. Salvetti",
    "R. P. Mignani",
    "A. De Luca",
    "M. Marelli",
    "C. Pallanca",
    "A. A. Breeveld",
    "A. Belfiore",
    "W. Becker",
    "J. Greiner"
  ],
  "comment": "19 pages, 11 figures, 2 tables, submitted to MNRAS",
  "categories": [
    "astro-ph.HE"
  ],
  "abstract": "About one third of the 3033 gamma-ray sources in the Third Fermi-LAT Gamma-ray Source Catalogue (3FGL) are unidentified and have not even a tentative association with a known object, hence they are defined as unassociated. Among Galactic gamma-ray sources, pulsars represent the largest class, with over 200 identifications to date. About one third of them have been discovered to be milli-second pulsars (MSPs) in binary systems. Therefore, it is plausible that a sizeable fraction of the unassociated Galactic gamma-ray sources belong to this class. We observed in the X-rays and in the optical the fields of twelve unassociated Fermi gamma-ray sources that are considered likely MSPs according to statistical classification techniques. Four of these sources have been identified as binary MSPs, or proposed as high-confidence candidates, when this work was in progress. Here, we identified another gamma-ray source (3FGL J0744.1-2523) as a possible binary MSP based upon the detection of a 0.115 d periodicity of its candidate optical counterpart.",
  "revisions": [
    {
      "version": "v1",
      "updated": "2017-02-01T22:06:54.000Z"
    }
  ],
  "analyses": {
    "keywords": [
      "candidate milli-second pulsars",
      "unassociated gamma-ray sources",
      "galactic gamma-ray sources belong",
      "multi-wavelength investigation",
      "third fermi-lat gamma-ray source catalogue"
    ],
    "note": {
      "typesetting": "TeX",
      "pages": 19,
      "language": "en",
      "license": "arXiv",
      "status": "editable"
    }
  }
}