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Recent studies have shown possible connections between highly magnetized neutron stars ("magnetars"), whose X-ray emission is too bright to be powered by rotational energy, and ordinary radio pulsars. In addition to the magnetar SGR…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-04-12 J. Dexter , N. Degenaar , M. Kerr , A. Deller , J. Deneva , P. Lazarus , M. Kramer , D. Champion , R. Karuppusamy

We report the status of a search for pulsars in the Galactic Centre, using a completely revised and improved high-sensitivity double-horn system at 4.85-GHz. We also present calculations about the success rate of periodicity searches for…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. Kramer , B. Klein , D. R. Lorimer , P. Mueller , A. Jessner , R. Wielebinski

We present constraints on the number of Galactic magnetars, which we have established by searching for sources with periodic variability in 506 archival Chandra observations and 441 archival XMM-Newton observations of the Galactic plane…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 M. P. Muno , B. M. Gaensler , A. Nechita , J. M. Miller , P. O. Slane

We report the discovery of three pulsars whose large dispersion measures and angular proximity to \sgr indicate the existence of a Galactic center population of neutron stars. The relatively long periods (0.98 to 1.48 s) most likely reflect…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 J. S. Deneva , J. M. Cordes , T. J. W. Lazio

Currently three isolated radio pulsars and one binary radio pulsar with no evidence of any previous recycling are known in 97 surveyed Galactic globular clusters. As pointed out by Lyne et al., the presence of these pulsars cannot be…

The number of pulsars with detected emission at X-ray and gamma-ray energies has been steadily growing, showing that beams of high-energy particles are commonly accelerated in pulsar magnetospheres, even though the location and number of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Isabelle A. Grenier , Alice K. Harding

The late-type stellar population in the Galactic Center was first predicted to reside in a dynamically relaxed cusp (power law slope ranging from 3/2 to 7/4). However, observations - which rely on models to correct for projection effects -…

We study the evolution and observability of young compact star clusters within about 200pc of the Galactic center. Calculations are performed using direct N-body integration on the GRAPE-4, including the effects of both stellar and binary…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Simon Portegies Zwart , Junichiro Makino , Stephen McMillan , Piet Hut

Current wisdom accounts to the diversity of neutron star observational manifestations to their birth scenarios, influencing their thermal and magnetic field evolution. Among the kind of observed neutron stars, radio pulsars represent by far…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-11-16 Ludmilla Dirson , Jérôme Pétri , Dipanjan Mitra

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

Pulsars in the Galactic Center (GC) are important probes of General Relativity, star formation, stellar dynamics, stellar evolution, and the interstellar medium. Despite years of searching, only a handful of pulsars in the central 0.5 deg…

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

The EGRET telescope on the Compton Gamma-Ray Observatory detected over 200 sources and the majority of these are still unidentified. At least three subpopulations of EGRET sources have been associated with the Galaxy: bright sources lying…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 A. K. Harding , P. L. Gonthier , I. A. Grenier , C. A. Perrot

In this paper, I review some of the basic properties of the pulsar population in globular clusters (GCs) and compare it with the the Galactic disk population. The neutron stars (NSs) in GCs were likely formed - and appear to continue…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-11 Paulo C. C. Freire

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

We consider the time derivatives of the period $P$ of pulsars at the Galactic Center due to variations in their orbital Doppler shifts. We show that in conjunction with a measurement of a pulsar's proper motion and its projected separation…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-19 Pierre Christian , Abraham Loeb

We discuss the stellar content of the Galactic Center, and in particular, recent estimates of the star formation rate (SFR). We discuss pros and cons of the different stellar tracers and focus our attention on the SFR based on the three…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 G. Bono , N. Matsunaga , L. Inno , E. P. Lagioia , K. Genovali

The diffuse gamma-rays in the Galactic center region have been studied. We propose that there exists a population of millisecond pulsars (MSPs) in the Galactic Center, which will emit GeV gamma-rays through the synchrotron-curvature…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 W. Wang , Z. J. Jiang , K. S. Cheng

We investigate the possibility of identifying massive objects (lenses) in the Galactic Center region (GC) by means of pulsar timing. The well known intensity change due to microlensing is found to be less important. For typical stellar…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 N. Wex , J. Gil , M. Sendyk

The computation of theoretical pulsar populations has been a major component of pulsar studies since the 1970s. However, the majority of pulsar population synthesis has only regarded isolated pulsar evolution. Those that have examined…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Paul Kiel , Jarrod Hurley , Matthew Bailes , James Murray