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It is expected that specific globular clusters can contain up to a hundred of millisecond pulsars. These pulsars can accelerate leptons at the shock waves originated in collisions of the pulsar winds and/or inside the pulsar magnetospheres.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2013-06-21 W. Bednarek , J. Sitarek

A year after \emph{Fermi} was launched, the number of known gamma-ray pulsars has increased dramatically. For the first time, a sizable population of pulsars has been discovered in gamma-ray data alone. For the first time, millisecond…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2009-12-21 L. Guillemot , Fermi LAT Collaboration

The Galactic Center Gamma-Ray Excess has a spectrum, angular distribution, and overall intensity that agree remarkably well with that expected from annihilating dark matter particles in the form of a $m_X \sim 50 \, {\rm GeV}$ thermal…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-09-30 Dan Hooper

We estimate the contribution of Galactic pulsars, both ordinary and millisecond pulsars (MSPs), to the high-energy (>100 MeV) gamma-ray background. We pay particular attention to the high-latitude part of the background that could be…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2010-01-15 C. -A. Faucher-Giguere , Abraham Loeb

An analysis of arrival directions of extensive air showers (EAS) registered with the EAS MSU and EAS-1000 prototype arrays has revealed a region of excessive flux of PeV cosmic rays in the direction toward pulsars PSR J1840+5640 and LAT PSR…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-13 G. V. Kulikov , M. Yu. Zotov

The population of $\gamma$-ray emitting millisecond pulsars (MSPs) is studied by using Monte-Carlo techniques. We simulate the Galactic distributions of the MSPs, and apply the outer gap model for the $\gamma$-ray emission from each…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-02-22 J. Takata , Y. Wang , K. S. Cheng

The Galactic Center Excess (GCE) remains one of the defining mysteries uncovered by the Fermi $\gamma$-ray Space Telescope. Although it may yet herald the discovery of annihilating dark matter, weighing against that conclusion are analyses…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-07-25 Florian List , Yujin Park , Nicholas L. Rodd , Eve Schoen , Florian Wolf

An excess of gamma rays at GeV energies has been detected in the Fermi-LAT data. This signal comes from a narrow region around the Galactic Center and has been interpreted as possible evidence for light (30 GeV) dark matter particles.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-01-30 Thomas Lacroix

Since the launch of the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope on 11 June 2008, significant detections of high energy emission have been reported only in six Gamma-ray Bursts (GRBs) until now. In this work we show that the lack of detection of a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-29 Yi-Zhong Fan

The High-Energy Stereoscopic System (HESS) has detected diffuse TeV emission correlated with the distribution of molecular gas along the Ridge at the Galactic Center. Diffuse, non-thermal emission is also seen by the Fermi large area…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-12 Oscar Macias , Chris Gordon , Roland Crocker , Stefano Profumo

The region surrounding the center of the Milky Way is both astrophysically rich and complex, and is predicted to contain very high densities of dark matter. Utilizing three years of data from the Fermi Gamma Ray Space Telescope (and the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-05-29 Dan Hooper , Tim Linden

We have simulated a Galactic population of young pulsars and compared with the Fermi LAT sample, constraining the birth properties, beaming and evolution of these spin-powered objects. Using quantitative tests of agreement with the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-20 Kyle P. Watters , Roger W. Romani

The Fermi gamma-ray satellite has recently detected gamma-ray emissions from radio galaxy cores. From these samples, we first examine the correlation between the luminosities at 5 GHz, L_{5GHz}, and at 0.1-10 GeV, L_{gamma}, of these…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-27 Yoshiyuki Inoue

We present a detailed study of the gamma-ray emission from the direction of the star-forming region W30 based on a decade of the Fermi Large Area Telescope data in the 0.3-300 GeV photon energy range. The morphological and spectral analyses…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-21 Bing Liu , Rui-zhi Yang , Xiao-na Sun , Felix Aharonian , Yang Chen

The dramatic increase in the number of known gamma-ray pulsars since the launch of the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope (formerly GLAST) offers the first opportunity to study a population of these high-energy objects. This catalog summarizes…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-13 A. A. Abdo

Observations by the Fermi Large Area Telescope of gamma-ray millisecond pulsar light curves imply copious pair production in their magnetospheres, and not exclusively in those of younger pulsars. Such pair cascades may be a primary source…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-07-15 C. Venter , A. Kopp , A. K. Harding , P. L. Gonthier , I. Büsching

Recent observations have shown that pulsars are surrounded by extended regions which emit TeV-scale gamma rays through the inverse Compton scattering of very high energy electrons and positrons. Such TeV halos are responsible for a large…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-07-20 Fei Xu , Dan Hooper

The survey of the inner Galaxy with H.E.S.S. was remarkably successful in detecting a wide range of new very-high-energy gamma-ray sources. New TeV gamma-ray emitting source classes were established, although several of the sources remain…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-13 S. Funk , J. A. Hinton , G. Hermann , S. Digel

We perform a composite likelihood analysis of subdivided regions within the central $26^\circ\times20^\circ$ of the Milky Way, with the aim of characterizing the spectrum of the gamma-ray galactic center excess in regions of varying…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-01-30 Shunsaku Horiuchi , Manoj Kaplinghat , Anna Kwa

The Fermi Large Area Telescope has observed an excess of ~GeV energy gamma rays from the center of the Milky Way, which may arise from near-thermal dark matter annihilation. Firmly establishing the dark matter origin for this excess is…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-07-22 Malte Buschmann , Nicholas L. Rodd , Benjamin R. Safdi , Laura J. Chang , Siddharth Mishra-Sharma , Mariangela Lisanti , Oscar Macias