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Globular clusters (GCs) are astronomical tapestries embroidered with an abundance of exotic stellar-type objects. Their high age promises a rich harvest of evolved stellar products, while the deep potential wells and high mass densities at…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-12-15 C. Venter , I. Buesching , A. Kopp , A. -C. Clapson , O. C. de Jager

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

The recent analyses of the Fermi Large Area Telescope data show an extended GeV $\gamma$-ray excess on top of the expected diffuse background in the Galactic center region, which can be explained with annihilating dark matter or a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-04-23 Qiang Yuan , Kunihito Ioka

Star formation in galaxies is observed to be associated with gamma-ray emission. The detection of gamma rays from star-forming galaxies by the Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) has allowed the determination of a functional relationship…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2012-08-07 Emma Storm , Tesla E. Jeltema , Stefano Profumo

Millisecond pulsars (MSPs) represent nearly half of the more than 160 currently known $\gamma$-ray pulsars detected by the Large Area Telescope on the \textit{Fermi} satellite, and a third of all known MSPs are seen in $\gamma$ rays. The…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-03-02 L. Guillemot , D. A. Smith , H. Laffon , G. H. Janssen , I. Cognard , G. Theureau , G. Desvignes , E. C. Ferrara , P. S. Ray

Gamma rays from young pulsars and milli-second pulsars are expected to contribute to the diffuse gamma-ray emission measured by the {\it Fermi} Large Area Telescope (LAT) at high latitudes. We derive the contribution of the pulsars…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-12-17 Francesca Calore , Mattia Di Mauro , Fiorenza Donato

Pulsars are among the prime targets for the Large Area Telescope (LAT) aboard the recently launched Fermi observatory. The LAT will study the gamma-ray Universe between 20 MeV and 300 GeV with unprecedented detail. Increasing numbers of…

Millisecond Pulsars are second most abundant source population discovered by the Fermi-LAT. They might contribute non-negligibly to the diffuse emission measured at high latitudes by Fermi-LAT, the IDGRB. Gamma-ray sources also contribute…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-11-05 F. Calore , M. Di Mauro , F. Donato

The Large Area Telescope (LAT) aboard the $Fermi$ spacecraft routinely observes high-energy emission from gamma-ray bursts (GRBs). Here we present the second catalog of LAT-detected GRBs, covering the first 10 years of operations, from 2008…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-06-28 M. Axelsson , E. Bissaldi , N. Omodei , G. Vianello

Excess of gamma rays around the Galactic center (GC) observed in the Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) data is one of the most intriguing features in the gamma-ray sky. The spherical morphology and the spectral energy distribution with a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-03-13 Dmitry V. Malyshev

Low-Mass X-ray Binaries (LMXRBs), believed to be the progenitors of recycled millisecond pulsars (MSPs), occur abundantly in globular clusters (GCs). GCs are therefore expected to host large numbers of MSPs. This is also confirmed…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-13 C. Venter , O. C. de Jager

Millisecond pulsars (MSPs) are a growing class of gamma-ray emitters. Pulsed gamma-ray signals have been detected from more than 40 MSPs with the Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT). The wider radio beams and more compact magnetospheres of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-06-24 T. J. Johnson , C. Venter , A. K. Harding , L. Guillemot , D. A. Smith , M. Kramer , O. Celik , P. R. den Hartog , E. C. Ferrara , X. Hou , J. Lande , P. S. Ray

Using data from the HAWC gamma-ray Telescope, we have studied a sample of 37 millisecond pulsars (MSPs), selected for their spindown power and proximity. From among these MSP, we have identified four which favor the presence of very…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-05-25 Dan Hooper , Tim Linden

Globular clusters are source of gamma-ray radiation. At GeV energies, their emission is attributed to magnetospheric activity of millisecond pulsars residing in the clusters. Inverse Compton scattering of ambient photon fields on…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-05-22 A. Zajczyk , W. Bednarek , B. Rudak

The $Fermi$-LAT has revealed that rotation powered millisecond pulsars (MSPs) are a major contributor to the Galactic $\gamma$-ray source population. We discuss the $\gamma$-ray emission process within the context of the outer gap…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2011-10-26 J. Takata , Y. Wang , K. S. Cheng

We report the discovery of gamma-ray pulsations from the nearby isolated millisecond pulsar PSR J0030+0451 with the Large Area Telescope (LAT) on the \emph{Fermi} Gamma-ray Space Telescope (formerly GLAST). This discovery makes PSR…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2009-07-22 LAT Collaboration

Since the era of the Fermi/LAT and atmospheric Cerenkov telescopes, pulsars are known to emit high and very high-energy photons, in the MeV-GeV range and sometimes up to TeV. To date, it is still unclear where and how these photons are…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-02-13 Jérôme Pétri

We report the detection of pulsed gamma-rays for PSRs J0631+1036, J0659+1414, J0742-2822, J1420-6048, J1509-5850 and J1718-3825 using the Large Area Telescope (LAT) on board the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope (formerly known as GLAST).…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2010-01-06 The Fermi LAT collaboration , the Fermi Pulsar Timing Consortium

High-energy gamma rays are a valuable tool for studying particle acceleration and radiation in the magnetospheres of energetic pulsars. The six or more pulsars seen by CGRO/EGRET show that: the light curves usually have double-peak…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 David J. Thompson

We present a summary of gamma-ray millisecond pulsar (MSP) observations with the Fermi Large Area Telescope. The radio and gamma-ray light curves of these MSPs have been modeled in the framework of the retarded vacuum dipole magnetic field.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-14 Tyrel J. Johnson , Christo Venter , Alice K. Harding , Lucas Guillemot