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The X-ray and $\gamma$-ray emission of globular clusters (GCs) is attributed to their large fraction of compact binary systems, especially those with millisecond pulsars (MSPs). We analyze a population of 124 Galactic GCs to investigate how…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-06-14 Raniere de Menezes , Federico Di Pierro , Andrea Chiavassa

Globular clusters with their large populations of millisecond pulsars (MSPs) are believed to be potential emitters of high-energy gamma-ray emission. Our goal is to constrain the millisecond pulsar populations in globular clusters from…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-18 The Fermi LAT collaboration

We study the gamma-ray spectra of 30 globular clusters (GCs) thus far detected with the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope. Presuming that gamma-ray emission of a GC comes from millisecond pulsars (MSPs) contained in, a model that generates…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-03-14 Wei Wu , Zhongxiang Wang , Yi Xing , Pengfei Zhang

Using archival {\it Fermi}-LAT data with a time span of $\sim12$ years, we study the population of Millisecond Pulsars (MSPs) in Globular Clusters (GlCs) and investigate their dependence on cluster dynamical evolution in the Milky Way…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-01-30 Li Feng , Zhongqun Cheng , Wei Wang , Zhiyuan Li , Yang Chen

The number of millisecond pulsars (MSPs) observed in Milky Way globular clusters has increased explosively in recent years, but the underlying population is still uncertain due to observational biases. We use state-of-the-art $N$-body…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-12-07 Claire S. Ye , Giacomo Fragione

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

The high stellar densities in the cores of globular clusters cause significant stellar interactions. These stellar interactions can produce close binary mass-transferring systems involving compact objects and their progeny, such as X-ray…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-15 Arash Bahramian , Craig O. Heinke , Gregory R. Sivakoff , Jeanette C. Gladstone

The discovery of a binary comprising a black hole (BH) and a millisecond pulsar (MSP) would yield insights into stellar evolution and facilitate exquisitely sensitive tests of general relativity. Globular clusters (GCs) are known to harbor…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-19 Drew Clausen , Steinn Sigurdsson , David F. Chernoff

We study the gamma-ray emission from millisecond pulsars within the Milky Way's globular cluster system in order to measure the luminosity function of this source population. We find that these pulsars have a mean luminosity of $\langle…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-03-25 Aurelio Amerio , Dan Hooper , Tim Linden

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

Based on archival {\it Chandra} data, we have carried out an X-ray survey of 69, or nearly half the known population of, Milky Way globular clusters (GCs), focusing on weak X-ray sources, mainly cataclysmic variables (CVs) and coronally…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-05-16 Zhongqun Cheng , Zhiyuan Li , Xiaojie Xu , Xiangdong Li

Globular clusters (GCs) with their ages of the order of several billion years contain many final products of evolution of stars such as: neutron stars, white dwarfs and probably also black holes. These compact objects can be at present…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-19 W. Bednarek

We have performed a systematic study of the rotational, orbital and X-ray properties of millisecond pulsars (MSPs) in globular clusters (GCs) and compared their nature with those of the MSPs in the Galactic field (GF). We found that GC MSPs…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-03-08 Jongsu Lee , C. Y. Hui , J. Takata , A. K. H. Kong , Pak-Hin Thomas Tam , Kwan-Lok Li , K. S. Cheng

In this study, we investigate the contribution of millisecond pulsars (MSPs) to the gamma-ray excess observed in the Galactic Center by analyzing data from high-resolution direct N-body simulations of six globular clusters (GCs) that…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-10-22 Dana Kuvatova , Taras Panamarev , Maryna Ishchenko , Anton Gluchshenko , Peter Berczik

In this article, we revisit the gamma-ray emission observed from millisecond pulsars and globular clusters. Based on 5.6 years of data from the Fermi Gamma-Ray Space Telescope, we report gamma-ray spectra for 61 millisecond pulsars, finding…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-07-22 Ilias Cholis , Dan Hooper , Tim Linden

The cumulative luminosity distribution functions (CLFs) of radio millisecond pulsars (MSPs) in globular clusters (GCs) and in the Galactic field at a frequency of 1.4 GHz have been examined. Assuming a functional form, $N \propto L^q$ where…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-18 C. Y. Hui , K. S. Cheng , Ronald E. Taam

Globular clusters (GCs), the oldest stellar systems observed in the Milky Way, have for long been considered single stellar populations. As such, they provided an ideal laboratory to understand stellar dynamics and primordial star formation…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-02-06 Alessandra Mastrobuono-Battisti , Sergey Khoperskov , Paola Di Matteo , Misha Haywood

Many recent observational and theoretical studies suggest that globular clusters (GCs) host compact object populations large enough to play dominant roles in their overall dynamical evolution. Yet direct detection, particularly of black…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-04-13 Fulya Kıroğlu , Newlin C. Weatherford , Kyle Kremer , Claire S. Ye , Giacomo Fragione , Frederic A. Rasio

Over a hundred millisecond radio pulsars (MSPs) have been observed in globular clusters (GCs), motivating theoretical studies of the formation and evolution of these sources through stellar evolution coupled to stellar dynamics. Here we…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-06-12 Claire S. Ye , Kyle Kremer , Sourav Chatterjee , Carl L. Rodriguez , Frederic A. Rasio

The Milky Way centre exhibits an intense flux in the gamma and X-ray bands, whose origin is partly ascribed to the possible presence of a large population of millisecond pulsars (MSPs) and cataclysmic variables (CVs), respectively. However,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-06-13 Manuel Arca-Sedda , Bence Kocsis , Timothy Brandt
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