Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope

Spider invasion across the Galaxy

David Hui

Abstract:

The nature of the exotic stellar corpses which reincarnate by consuming their companion will be reviewed. Apart from sucking life from their partners, they are actually eating the doomed companions away by their deadly and powerful particle/radiation beams. Such situation resembles that a female "black widow" spider (and their Australian cousin "redbacks") that eats its mate after mating. These celestial zombies are called - Millisecond pulsars. In this talk, I will focus on the effort of Fermi Asian Network (FAN) in exploring these intricating objects over the last five years.