1. The Transient Universe: AY 250 Spring 2007 Neutron Stars II: Pulsar-Black Hole Binaries & Gamma-Ray Pulsars Geoff Bower

2. The Transient Universe: AY 250 Spring 2007 Binary Parameter Space GM/R GM/a M

3. The Transient Universe: AY 250 Spring 2007 Pulsar Binaries Wex & Kopeikin 1997

4. The Transient Universe: AY 250 Spring 2007 Timing Results Mtot M_BHGW Frame-dragging BH Spin Wex & Kopeikin 1999

5. The Transient Universe: AY 250 Spring 2007 Determination of Masses Kramer et al 2005

6. The Transient Universe: AY 250 Spring 2007 Spin/Quadrupole Kerr BH NS: C ~ 2 - 12 Boson star

7. The Transient Universe: AY 250 Spring 2007 Detecting Quadrupole Moment 30 M_sun 10^4 M_sun Effect ~ M^3

8. The Transient Universe: AY 250 Spring 2007

9. Imaging the Galactic Center 7mm VLBA (Bower & Backer 1998) What We See What We Want to See

10. The Transient Universe: AY 250 Spring 2007 7 mm 700 x 400 micro arcsec

11. The Transient Universe: AY 250 Spring 2007 Scattering Inhibits Imaging Lo et al. 1998

12. The Transient Universe: AY 250 Spring 2007 Scattering Inhibits Imaging Electron Density Fluctuations 100 pc 8000 pc

13. The Transient Universe: AY 250 Spring 2007 Pulse Broadening Cordes & Lazio 1997

14. The Transient Universe: AY 250 Spring 2007 5 sec 5 msec

15. The Transient Universe: AY 250 Spring 2007 SKA is Necessary for GC Pulsars Cordes et al 2004

16. The Transient Universe: AY 250 Spring 2007 Gamma-ray Pulsars CrabGeminga Thompson et al 1977

17. The Transient Universe: AY 250 Spring 2007 Improved Geminga Period Chandler et al 2001

18. The Transient Universe: AY 250 Spring 2007 Hartman et al 1999 271 sources 66 blazars 5 pulsars 170 unidentified

19. The Transient Universe: AY 250 Spring 2007 Padovani 2007

20. The Transient Universe: AY 250 Spring 2007 EGRET Pulsar Population Chandler et al 2001 G-ray pulsars Geminga Crab

21. The Transient Universe: AY 250 Spring 2007 G-ray Pulsar Population 5 objects 4/5 are radio pulsars –Geminga is exception Many unidentified galactic plane sources that are likely to be pulsars but are not radio pulsars  Broader G-ray pulse?  Magnetar pulsars?

22. The Transient Universe: AY 250 Spring 2007 GLAST Pulsar Detection

23. The Transient Universe: AY 250 Spring 2007

25. N_GLAST_pulsed ~ 140 N_GLAST_detected ~ 750 L ~ P^-1.8 * B^1.5 McLaughlin & Cordes 2000