Blind Searches for Gamma-ray Pulsars

The launch of the Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) in 2008 opened up a new era in gamma-ray astronomy, particularly in pulsar studies. The number of detected gamma-ray pulsars has increased from just 7 to over 200. Two of the main populations of gamma-ray pulsars that the LAT has been especially prolific in discovering are radio-quiet young gamma-ray pulsars and recycled millisecond gamma-ray pulsars (MSPs). This project aims to discover new gamma-ray pulsars in either (or both) of these categories by performing blind searches on the gamma-ray data, using a time-differencing technique which has proven so successful to date.