Observations and modeling of gamma-ray millisecond pulsars seen with the Fermi LAT
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2011Author
Johnson, T.J.
Venter, C.
Harding, A.K.
Guillemot, L.
Fermi LAT
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We present a summary of gamma-ray millisecond pulsar (MSP) observations with the
Fermi Large Area Telescope. The radio and gamma-ray light curves of these MSPs have been
modeled in the framework of the retarded vacuum dipole magnetic field. Likelihood fitting of
the radio and gamma-ray light curves with geometric emission models allows us to give modeldependent confidence contours for the viewing geometry in these systems which are complementary
to those from polarization measurements