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With the large sample of young gamma-ray pulsars discovered by the Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT), population synthesis has become a powerful tool for comparing their collective properties with model predictions. We synthesised a pulsar…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-05 M. Pierbattista , I. A. Grenier , A. K. Harding , P. L. Gonthier

Nearly 1/3 of the sources listed in the Third Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) catalog (3FGL) remain unassociated. It is possible that predicted and even unanticipated gamma-ray source classes are present in these data waiting to be…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-07-06 N. Mirabal , E. Charles , E. C. Ferrara , P. L. Gonthier , A. K. Harding , M. A. Sánchez-Conde , D. J. Thompson

We present results of a population synthesis of millisecond pulsars from the Galactic disk. Excluding globular clusters, we model the spatial distribution of millisecond pulsars by assuming their birth in the Galactic disk with a random…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Sarah A. Story , Peter L. Gonthier , Alice K. Harding

The Fermi-LAT data appear to have an excess of gamma rays from the inner 150 pc of the Galactic Center. The main explanations proposed for this are: an unresolved population of millisecond pulsars (MSPs), dark matter (DM) annihilation, and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-03-19 Oscar Macias , Chris Gordon

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

Using data from the Fermi Gamma-Ray Space Telescope, a spatially extended component of gamma rays has been identified from the direction of the Galactic Center, peaking at energies of ~2-3 GeV. More recently, it has been shown that this…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-10-30 Dan Hooper , Ilias Cholis , Tim Linden , Jennifer Siegal-Gaskins , Tracy Slatyer

It has been suggested that the Galactic Center Gamma-Ray Excess (GCE) could be produced by a large number of centrally-located millisecond pulsars. The fact that no such pulsar population has been detected implies that these sources must be…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-05-22 Ian Holst , Dan Hooper

Over a hundred millisecond radio pulsars (MSPs) have been observed in globular clusters (GCs), motivating theoretical studies of the formation and evolution of these sources through stellar evolution coupled to stellar dynamics. Here we…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-06-12 Claire S. Ye , Kyle Kremer , Sourav Chatterjee , Carl L. Rodriguez , Frederic A. Rasio

Millisecond pulsars (MSPs) are prolific GeV $\gamma\text{-ray}$ emitters, and nearly 80\% of Fermi-LAT MSPs reside in compact binaries. We demonstrate that the companions in these compact MSPs binaries are also 511 keV annihilation line…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-09-05 Zachary Metzler , Zorawar Wadiasingh

My thesis deals with a fundamental question of high energy gamma-ray astronomy. Namely, I studied the cut-off shape of the Crab pulsar spectrum to distinguish between the leading scenarios for the pulsar models. Pulsars are celestial…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2011-05-18 Takayuki Saito

We present results of our pulsar population synthesis of ordinary isolated and millisecond pulsars in the Galactic plane. Over the past several years, a program has been developed to simulate pulsar birth, evolution and emission using Monte…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Peter L. Gonthier , Sarah A. Story , Brian D. Clow , Alice K. Harding

Millisecond pulsars (MSPs) and normal non-recycled pulsars are both detected in $\gamma$-rays. However, it appears that a much larger fraction of known energetic and nearby MSPs are detected in $\gamma$-rays, in comparison with normal…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-18 L. Guillemot , T. M. Tauris

Pulsars are rapidly rotating neutron stars that emit radiation across the electromagnetic spectrum, from radio to gamma-rays. We use the rapid binary population synthesis suite COMPAS to model the Galactic population of canonical pulsars.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-10-15 Yuzhe Song , Simon Stevenson , Debatri Chattopadhyay , Joshua Tan , Timothy A. D. Paglione

We have performed a systematic study of the rotational, orbital and X-ray properties of millisecond pulsars (MSPs) in globular clusters (GCs) and compared their nature with those of the MSPs in the Galactic field (GF). We found that GC MSPs…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-03-08 Jongsu Lee , C. Y. Hui , J. Takata , A. K. H. Kong , Pak-Hin Thomas Tam , Kwan-Lok Li , K. S. Cheng

Observations of millisecond pulsars (MSPs) at low radio frequencies play an important role in understanding the Galactic pulsar population and characterising both their emission properties and the effects of the ionised interstellar medium…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-08-15 C. P. Lee , N. D. R. Bhat , B. W. Meyers , S. J. McSweeney , W. van Straten , C. M. Tan , M. Xue , N. A. Swainston , S. M. Ord , G. Sleap , S. E. Tremblay , A. Williams

We report the Fermi Large Area Telescope detection of gamma-ray (>100 megaelectronvolts) pulsations from pulsar J1823-3021A in the globular cluster NGC 6624 with high significance (~7 sigma). Its gamma-ray luminosity L_gamma = (8.4 +/- 1.6)…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-03 The Fermi LAT Collaboration

With a decade of gamma-ray data from the Fermi-LAT telescope, we can now hope to answer how well we know the local Universe at gamma-ray frequencies. On the other hand, with gamma-ray data alone it is not possible to directly access the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-11-27 Simone Ammazzalorso , Nicolao Fornengo , Shunsaku Horiuchi , Marco Regis

A striking aspect of the radio profiles of many millisecond pulsars (MSPs) is that they consist of components separated from each other by regions lacking in emission. We devise a technique for determining "disjoint" from "contiguous"…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-12-18 Michael Kramer , Simon Johnston

The Fermi Bubbles are gamma-ray structures extending from the center of the Milky Way to +/-50 degree Galactic latitude that were discovered in data obtained by the Fermi/LAT instrument. Their origin and power source remain uncertain. To…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-11-11 Ami Tank , Roland Crocker , Mark R. Krumholz

We present a new method to interpret the $\gamma$-ray data of our inner Galaxy as measured by the Fermi Large Area Telescope (Fermi LAT). We train and test convolutional neural networks with simulated Fermi-LAT images based on models tuned…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-05-29 Sascha Caron , Germán A. Gómez-Vargas , Luc Hendriks , Roberto Ruiz de Austri