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Caption: Figure 3.
Galactic plane pulsar distribution (polar view). The star represents the Galactic center. The two circles centered at the
Earth's position have radii of 3 kpc and 5 kpc. For pulsars with different possible distances, the nearer values from Table 5
are used. Note that the MSPs, while having a significantly lower
than the other pulsars (see Figure
8), are detectable due to their close proximity. The one exception (PSR J0218+4232) also exhibits a significantly higher
than the other MSPs. Blue squares: gamma-ray-selected pulsars. Red triangles: millisecond gamma-ray pulsars. Green circles:
all other radio-loud gamma-ray pulsars. Black dots: pulsars for which gamma-ray pulsation searches were conducted using rotational
ephemerides. Gray dots: known pulsars which were not searched for pulsations.
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