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{\it Fermi}-LAT has detected pulsed gamma-ray emissions with high confidences from more than 40 millisecond pulsars (MSPs). Here we study the phase-averaged gamma-ray properties of MSPs by using revised version of a self-consistent outer…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-02-22 Z. J. Jiang , S. B. Chen , X. Li , L. Zhang

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

We have searched for millisecond pulsars (MSPs) in two globular clusters detected by the Fermi Large Area Telescope. These clusters contained no known MSPs prior to their detections in gamma rays. The discovery of gamma ray emission from…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2011-11-03 Megan E. DeCesar , Scott M. Ransom , Paul S. Ray

We present 294 pulsars found in GeV data from the Large Area Telescope (LAT) on the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope. Another 33 millisecond pulsars (MSPs) discovered in deep radio searches of LAT sources will likely reveal pulsations once…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-11-29 David A. Smith , Philippe Bruel , Colin J. Clark , Lucas Guillemot , Matthew T. Kerr , Paul Ray , Soheila Abdollahi , Marco Ajello , Luca Baldini , Jean Ballet , Matthew Baring , Cees Bassa , Josefa Becerra Gonzalez , Ronaldo Bellazzini , Alessandra Berretta , Bhaswati Bhattacharyya , Elisabetta Bissaldi , Raffaella Bonino , Eugenio Bottacini , Johan Bregeon , Marta Burgay , Toby Burnett , Rob Cameron , Fernando Camilo , Regina Caputo , Patrizia Caraveo , Elisabetta Cavazzuti , Graziano Chiaro , Stefano Ciprini , Ismael Cognard , Paolo Cristarella Orestano , Milena Crnogorcevic , Alessandro Cuoco , Sara Cutini , Filippo D'Ammando , Alessandro de Angelis , Salvatore De Gaetano , Raniere de Menezes , Francesco de Palma , Megan DeCesar , Julia Deneva , Niccola Di Lalla , Leonardo Di Venere , Feraol Fana Dirirsa , Alberto Dominguez , Denis Dumora , Stephen Fegan , Elizabeth Ferrara , Alessio Fiori , Henrike Fleischhack , Chris Flynn , Anna Franckowiak , Paulo Freire , Yasushi Fukazawa , Piergiorgio Fusco , Giorgio Galanti , Viviana Gammaldi , Fabio Gargano , Dario Gasparrini , Federica Giacchino , Nico Giglietto , Francesco Giordano , Marcello Giroletti , David Green , Isabelle Grenier , Sylvain Guiriec , Michael Gustafsson , Alice Harding , Liz Hays , John Hewitt , Deirdre Horan , Xian Hou , Fabian Jankowski , Tyrel Johnson , Robert Johnson , Simon Johnston , Jun Kataoka , Michael J. Keith , Michael Kramer , Michael Kuss , Luca Latronico , Shiu-Hang Lee , Di Li , Jian Li , Brent Limyansky , Francesco Longo , Francesco Loparco , Leonarda Lorusso , Michael Lovellette , Marcus Lower , Pasquale Lubrano , Andrew Lyne , Simone Maldera , Richard Manchester , Alberto Manfreda , Martino Marelli , Guillem Marta-Devesa , Mario Nicola Mazziotta , Julie McEnery , Isabella Mereu , Peter Michelson , Warit Mitthumsiri , Tsunefumi Mizuno , Alex Moiseev , Maria Elena Monzani , Aldo Morselli , Michela Negro , Rodrigo Nemmen , Lars Nieder , Eric Nuss , Nicola Omodei , Monica Orienti , Elena Orlando , Jonathan F. Ormes , Michele Palatiello , David Paneque , Giuliana Panzarini , Massimo Persic , Melissa Pesce-Rollins , Roberta Pillera , Helen Poon , Troy Porter , Giacomo Principe , Silvia Raino , Riccardo Rando , Scott Ransom , Massimiliano Razzano , Soebur Razzaque , Anita Reimer , Olaf Reimer , Nicolas Renault-Tinacci , Roger Romani , Miguel A. Sanchez-Conde , Pablo Saz Parkinson , Lorenzo Scotton , Davide Serini , Carmelo Sgro , Ryan Shannon , Vidushi Sharma , Eric J. Siskind , Gloria Spandre , Paolo Spinelli , Ben Stappers , Tom Stephens , Dan Suson , Hiro Tajima , Dongguen Tak , Gilles Theureau , David Thompson , Omar Tibolla , Diego F. Torres , Janeth Valverde , Christo Venter , Zorawar Wadiasingh , Nina Wang , Pei Wang , Patrick Weltevrede , Kent Wood , Gabrijela Zaharijas

We searched for radio pulsars in 25 of the non-variable, unassociated sources in the Fermi LAT Bright Source List with the Green Bank Telescope at 820 MHz. We report the discovery of three radio and gamma-ray millisecond pulsars (MSPs) from…

Radio pulsar timing array (PTA) experiments using millisecond pulsars (MSPs) are beginning to detect nHz gravitational waves (GWs). MSPs are bright GeV gamma-ray emitters, and all-sky monitoring of about 100 MSPs with the Fermi Large Area…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-12-18 Matthew Kerr , Zorawar Wadiasingh , Adrien Laviron , Constantinos Kalapotharakos , Thankful Cromartie , Tyler Cohen

Significant gamma-ray pulsations have been detected from ~40 millisecond pulsars (MSPs) using 3 years of sky-survey data from the Fermi LAT and radio timing solutions from across the globe. We have fit the radio and gamma-ray pulse profiles…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-14 T. J. Johnson , A. K. Harding , C. Venter , J. E. Grove

We analyzed the globular cluster M5 (NGC 5904) using 15 years of gamma-ray data from the Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT). Using rotation ephemerides generated from Arecibo and FAST radio telescope observations, we searched for gamma-ray…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-03-26 X. Hou , W. Zhang , P. C. C. Freire , D. F. Torres , J. Ballet , D. A. Smith , T. J. Johnson , M. Kerr , C. C. Cheung , L. Guillemot , J. Li , L. Zhang , A. Ridolfi , P. Wang , D. Li , J. Yuan , N. Wang

Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) has recently detected 8 gamma-ray millisecond pulsars (MSPs), providing an unprecedented opportunity to probe the magnetospheres of these low-spin-down pulsars. We performed 3D emission modeling, including…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2009-11-26 C. Venter , A. K. Harding , L. Guillemot

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

Inspired by increase of population of $\gamma$-ray emitting pulsars by the $Fermi$ telescope, we perform a population study for $\gamma$-ray emitting canonical pulsars. We use a Monte-Carlo technique to simulate the Galactic population of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-20 J. Takata , Y. Wang , K. S. Cheng

Employing Fermi-LAT gamma ray observations, several independent groups have found excess extended gamma ray emission at the Galactic center (GC). Both, annihilating dark matter (DM) or a population of $\sim 10^3$ unresolved millisecond…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-12-12 Chris Gordon , Oscar Macias

Pulsars emerge in the Fermi era as a sizable population of gamma-ray sources. Millisecond pulsars (MSPs) constitute an older subpopulation whose sky distribution extends to high Galactic latitudes, and it has been suggested that unresolved…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2011-08-24 Jennifer M. Siegal-Gaskins , Rebecca Reesman , Vasiliki Pavlidou , Stefano Profumo , Terry P. Walker

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

Pulsed gamma rays have been detected with the Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) from more than 20 millisecond pulsars (MSPs), some of which were discovered in radio observations of bright, unassociated LAT sources. We have fit the radio and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2011-11-04 Tyrel J. Johnson , Alice K. Harding , Christo Venter

We report on the discovery of gamma-ray pulsations from five millisecond pulsars (MSPs) using the Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) and timing ephemerides provided by various radio observatories. We also present confirmation of the gamma-ray…

During its first 2 years of mission the Fermi-LAT instrument discovered more than 1,800 gamma-ray sources in the 100 MeV to 100 GeV range. Despite the application of advanced techniques to identify and associate the Fermi-LAT sources with…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-03-02 David Salvetti

Millisecond pulsars (MSPs) have been firmly established as a class of gamma-ray emitters via the detection of pulsations above 0.1 GeV from eight MSPs by the Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT). Using thirteen months of LAT data significant…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-18 The Fermi LAT Collaboration , Pulsar Timing Consortium

We are starting a project to find $\gamma$-ray millisecond pulsars (MSPs) among the unidentified sources detected by the Large Area Telescope (LAT) onboard the {Fermi Gamma-Ray Space Telescope (Fermi)}, by radio observations. The selection…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-03-04 Xuejie Dai , Zhongxiang Wang , Jithesh Vadakkumthani

Millisecond pulsars (MSPs) are a leading explanation of the Galactic Center excess (GCE) observed in Fermi-LAT data. We constrain this scenario by jointly modeling prompt and inverse-Compton $\gamma$ rays from MSP-injected $e^\pm$ on the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-05-27 Jordan Koechler , Pedro De la Torre Luque , Mattia Di Mauro