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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

Context: GeV gamma-ray pulsations from over 140 pulsars have been characterized using the Fermi Large Area Telescope, enabling improved understanding of the emission regions within the neutron star magnetospheres, and the contributions of…

We have discovered six radio millisecond pulsars (MSPs) in a search with the Arecibo telescope of 34 unidentified gamma-ray sources from the Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) 4-year point source catalog. Among the 34 sources, we also…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-03-16 H. T. Cromartie , F. Camilo , M. Kerr , J. S. Deneva , S. M. Ransom , P. S. Ray , E. C. Ferrara , P. F. Michelson , K. S. Wood

We apply a number of statistical and machine learning techniques to classify and rank gamma-ray sources from the Third Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) Source Catalog (3FGL), according to their likelihood of falling into the two major…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-03-23 P. M. Saz Parkinson , H. Xu , P. L. H. Yu , D. Salvetti , M. Marelli , A. D. Falcone

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

Pulsars are powerful sources of radiation across the electromagnetic spectrum. This paper highlights some theoretical insights into non-thermal, magnetospheric pulsar gamma-ray radiation. These advances have been driven by NASA's Fermi…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-20 Matthew G. Baring

The $Fermi$-LAT has revealed that rotation powered millisecond pulsars (MSPs) are a major contributor to the Galactic $\gamma$-ray source population. Such pulsars may also be important in modeling the quiescent state of several low mass…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-03 J. Takata , K. S. Cheng , R. E. Taam

We simulate the characteristics of the Galactic population of radio and $\gamma$-ray pulsars using Monte Carlo techniques. At birth, neutron stars are spatially distributed in the Galactic disk, with supernova-kick velocities, and randomly…

We report the Fermi Large Area Telescope discovery of gamma-ray pulsations from the 22.7 ms pulsar A in the double pulsar system J0737-3039A/B. This is the first mildly recycled millisecond pulsar (MSP) detected in the GeV domain. The 2.7 s…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-15 L. Guillemot , M. Kramer , T. J. Johnson , H. A. Craig , R. W. Romani , C. Venter , A. K. Harding , R. D. Ferdman , I. H. Stairs , M. Kerr

The Large Area Telescope on the recently launched Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope (formerly GLAST), with its large field of view and effective area, combined with its excellent timing capabilities, is poised to revolutionize the field of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-08-14 P. M. Saz Parkinson

The lack of detected pulsars at the Galactic Center (GC) region is a long-standing mystery. We argue that the high stellar density in the central parsec around the GC is likely to result in a pulsar population dominated by millisecond…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-03 Jean-Pierre Macquart , Nissim Kanekar

Cosmic rays (CRs) can be studied through the galaxy-wide gamma-ray emission that they generate when propagating in the interstellar medium. The comparison of the diffuse signals from different systems may inform us about the key parameters…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2010-12-10 LAT collaboration

Analyses of Fermi Gamma-Ray Space Telescope data have revealed a source of excess diffuse gamma rays towards the Galactic center that extends up to roughly $\pm$20 degrees in latitude. The leading theory postulates that this GeV excess is…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-07-19 Deheng Song , Oscar Macias , Shunsaku Horiuchi

The $\textit{Fermi}$-LAT Collaboration recently presented a new catalog of gamma-ray sources located within the $40^{\circ} \times 40^{\circ}$ region around the Galactic Center~(Ajello et al. 2017) -- the Second Fermi Inner Galaxy (2FIG)…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-10-31 Richard Bartels , Dan Hooper , Tim Linden , Siddharth Mishra-Sharma , Nicholas L. Rodd , Benjamin R. Safdi , Tracy R. Slatyer

We analyse 13 yrs of $\textit{Fermi}$-LAT PASS 8 events from 127 gamma-ray emitting millisecond pulsars (MSPs) in the energy range 0.1$-$100 GeV and significantly detect 118 MSPs. We fit the stacked emission with a log parabola (LP)…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-05-13 Sheridan J. Lloyd , Paula M. Chadwick , Anthony M. Brown

We study diffuse gamma-ray emission at intermediate Galactic latitudes measured by the Fermi Large Area Telescope with the aim of searching for a signal from dark matter annihilation or decay. In the absence of a robust dark matter signal,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-04-10 G. Zaharijas , J. Conrad , A. Cuoco , Z. Yang

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

The observed correlation between the far-infrared and radio luminosities of galaxies illustrates the close connection between star formation and cosmic-ray production. Intriguingly, recent gamma-ray observations indicate that…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-04-28 Takahiro Sudoh , Tim Linden , John F. Beacom

Excess GeV gamma rays from the Galactic Center (GC) have been measured with the Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT). The presence of the GC excess (GCE) appears to be robust with respect to changes in the diffuse galactic background modeling.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-05-24 Thomas Lacroix , Oscar Macias , Chris Gordon , Paolo Panci , Celine Boehm , Joseph Silk

The leading explanation of the $\textit{Fermi}$ Galactic center $\gamma$-ray excess is the extended emission from a unresolved population of millisecond pulsars (MSPs) in the Galactic bulge. Such a population would, along with the prompt…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-07-20 Oscar Macias , Harm van Leijen , Deheng Song , Shin'ichiro Ando , Shunsaku Horiuchi , Roland M. Crocker