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We report on the discovery of gamma-ray emission from several globular clusters (GCs), including Terzan 5, the second known gamma-ray GCs. By now, more than a dozen GCs are known to emit gamma-rays of energies above 100 MeV, thus enabling…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2011-11-07 P. Tam , A. Kong , C. Y. Hui , K. S. Cheng

The X-ray and $\gamma$-ray emission of globular clusters (GCs) is attributed to their large fraction of compact binary systems, especially those with millisecond pulsars (MSPs). We analyze a population of 124 Galactic GCs to investigate how…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-06-14 Raniere de Menezes , Federico Di Pierro , Andrea Chiavassa

Globular clusters (GCs) are evolved stellar systems containing entire populations of millisecond pulsars (MSPs), which are efficient gamma-ray emitters. Observations of this emission can be used as a powerful tool to explore the dynamical…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-04-10 Raniere de Menezes , Fabio Cafardo , Rodrigo Nemmen

Globular clusters (GCs) with their ages of the order of several billion years contain many final products of evolution of stars such as: neutron stars, white dwarfs and probably also black holes. These compact objects can be at present…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-19 W. Bednarek

The globular clusters (GC) of our Galaxy have been found to lie close to a plane in the log(R_e), log(sigma), SB_e space, on the continuation of the Fundamental Plane (FP) known to characterize the properties of early-type galaxies. We…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 M. Pasquato , G. Bertin

Fermi has detected gamma-ray emission from eight globular clusters. We suggest that the gamma-ray emission from globular clusters may result from the inverse Compton scattering between relativistic electrons/positrons in the pulsar wind of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-19 K. S. Cheng , D. O. Chernyshov , V. A. Dogiel , C. Y. Hui , A. K. H. Kong

We study the gamma-ray spectra of 30 globular clusters (GCs) thus far detected with the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope. Presuming that gamma-ray emission of a GC comes from millisecond pulsars (MSPs) contained in, a model that generates…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-03-14 Wei Wu , Zhongxiang Wang , Yi Xing , Pengfei Zhang

Globular clusters (GCs) are emerging as a new class of gamma-ray emitters, thanks to the data obtained from the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope. By now, eight GCs are known to emit gamma-rays at energies >100~MeV. Based on the stellar…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2012-08-01 P. H. T. Tam , A. K. H. Kong , C. Y. Hui , K. S. Cheng , C. Li , T. -N. Lu

We present evidence for $\gamma$-ray emission from a stacked population of 39 high-latitude globular clusters (GCs) not detected in the Fermi Point Source Catalog, likely attributable to populations of millisecond pulsars within them. In…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-10-17 Owen K. Henry , Timothy A. D. Paglione , Yuzhe Song , Joshua Tan , David Zurek , Vanessa Pinto

Gamma-ray astronomy will play a crucial role in the investigation of nonthermal processes in the large scale structure of the universe. Particularly, galaxy clusters (GC) observations at this photon energy will help us understand the origin…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Francesco Miniati

The high stellar densities in the cores of globular clusters cause significant stellar interactions. These stellar interactions can produce close binary mass-transferring systems involving compact objects and their progeny, such as X-ray…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-15 Arash Bahramian , Craig O. Heinke , Gregory R. Sivakoff , Jeanette C. Gladstone

We study the gamma-ray emission from millisecond pulsars within the Milky Way's globular cluster system in order to measure the luminosity function of this source population. We find that these pulsars have a mean luminosity of $\langle…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-03-25 Aurelio Amerio , Dan Hooper , Tim Linden

Recent observations by the Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) and the High Energy Stereoscopic System (H.E.S.S.) have revealed globular clusters (GC) to be sources of high-energy (HE) and very-high-energy (VHE) gamma-rays. It has been…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-12-15 P L Prinsloo , C Venter , I Büsching , A Kopp

It has been known for over 30 years that Galactic globular clusters (GCs) are overabundant by orders of magnitude in bright X-ray sources per unit mass relative to the disk population. Recently a quantitative understanding of this…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 John M. Fregeau

The origin of the diffuse extragalactic, high-energy gamma-ray background (EGRB) filling the Universe remains unknown. The spectrum of this extragalactic radiation, as measured by the EGRET on-board CGRO, is well-fit by a power law across…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Caleb A. Scharf , Reshmi Mukherjee

In this article, we revisit the gamma-ray emission observed from millisecond pulsars and globular clusters. Based on 5.6 years of data from the Fermi Gamma-Ray Space Telescope, we report gamma-ray spectra for 61 millisecond pulsars, finding…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-07-22 Ilias Cholis , Dan Hooper , Tim Linden

Clusters of galaxies and the large scale filaments that connect neighboring clusters are expected to be sites of acceleration of charged particles and sources of non-thermal radiation from radio frequencies to gamma rays. Gamma rays are…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Pasquale Blasi , Stefano Gabici , Gianfranco Brunetti

The Fermi satellite has recently detected gamma ray emission from the central regions of our Galaxy. This may be evidence for dark matter particles, a major component of the standard cosmological model, annihilating to produce high-energy…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-10-07 Timothy D. Brandt , Bence Kocsis

It has been suggested that the GeV excess, observed from the region surrounding the Galactic Center, might originate from a population of millisecond pulsars that formed in globular clusters. With this in mind, we employ the publicly…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-08-17 Dan Hooper , Tim Linden

Recent observational studies of $\gamma$-ray emission from massive globular clusters (GCs) have revealed possible evidence of dark matter (DM) annihilation within GCs. It is, however, still controversial whether the emission comes from DM…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-05-20 Henriette Wirth , Kenji Bekki , Kohei Hayashi
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