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The existence of dark matter (DM) is supported by various macroscopic observations, but its microscopic nature remains elusive. The Galactic Center GeV gamma-ray excess (GCE) has been a leading candidate signal for particle DM annihilation.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-03-03 Ming-Yu Lei , Bei Zhou , Xiaoyuan Huang

Two energetic millisecond pulsars (MSPs) within globular clusters (GC), J1823-3021A in NGC 6624 and PSR B1821-24 in M28, have been recently discovered to emit pulsed GeV gamma-rays. These MSPs are expected to eject energetic leptons.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-02-24 W. Bednarek , J. Sitarek , T. Sobczak

Over ten years ago, Fermi observed an excess of GeV gamma rays from the Galactic Center whose origin is still under debate. One explanation for this excess involves annihilating dark matter; another requires an unresolved population of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-08-31 Andrew L. Miller , Yue Zhao

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

Several high-frequency peaked BL Lac objects such as Mrk 501 are strong TeV emitters. However, a significant fraction of the TeV gamma rays emitted are likely to be absorbed in interactions with the diffuse IR background, yielding…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Z. G. Dai , B. Zhang , L. J. Gou , P. Meszaros , E. Waxman

The binary system PSR B1259-63 consists of a 48 ms pulsar in a 3.4 year orbit around a Be star and unpulsed TeV gamma-ray emission has been detected near previous periastron passages. A likely source of the gamma-rays is the inverse Compton…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-20 B. van Soelen , P. J. Meintjes

Significant advances have been made in the understanding of the diffuse Galactic hard X-ray continuum emission using data from the INTEGRAL observatory. The diffuse hard power-law component seen with the INTEGRAL/SPI spectrometer has been…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-28 Laurent Bouchet , Andrew W. Strong , Troy A. Porter , Igor V. Moskalenko , Elisabeth Jourdain , Jean-Pierre Roques

The origin of the inner Galactic emission, measured by COMPTEL with a flux of $\sim ~ 10^{-2}$ MeV cm$^{-2}$ s$^{-1}$ sr$^{-1}$ in the 1-30 MeV range, has remained unsettled since its discovery in 1994. We investigate the origin of this…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-06-02 Naomi Tsuji , Yoshiyuki Inoue , Hiroki Yoneda , Reshmi Mukherjee , Hirokazu Odaka

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 Fermi Large Area Telescope has detected an extended region of GeV emission toward the Galactic Center that is currently thought to be powered by dark matter annihilation or a population of young and/or millisecond pulsars. In a test of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-07-19 D. Bhakta , J. Deneva , D. A. Frail , F. de Gasperin , H. T. Intema , P. Jagannathan , K. P. Mooley

Millisecond Pulsars are second most abundant source population discovered by the Fermi-LAT. They might contribute non-negligibly to the diffuse emission measured at high latitudes by Fermi-LAT, the IDGRB. Gamma-ray sources also contribute…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-11-05 F. Calore , M. Di Mauro , F. Donato

Shocks around clusters of galaxies accelerate electrons which upscatter the Cosmic Microwave Background photons to higher-energies. We use an analytical model to calculate this inverse Compton (IC) emission, taking into account the effects…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-09-09 Ryo Yamazaki , Abraham Loeb

A new measurement of a spatially extended gamma-ray signal from the center of the Andromeda galaxy (M31) has been recently published by the Fermi-LAT collaboration, reporting that the emission broadly resembles the so-called Galactic center…

The Galactic Centre {\gamma}-ray excess (GCE), observed by Fermi-LAT around Sgr A*, exceeds expectations from standard cosmic-ray models and is commonly attributed either to dark matter annihilation or to unresolved millisecond pulsars…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-04-02 M. Kalambay , M. Ishchenko , D. Kuvatova , T. Panamarev , P. Berczik

Recent observations by the Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) and the High Energy Stereoscopic System (H.E.S.S.) have revealed globular clusters (GC) to be sources of high-energy (HE) and very-high-energy (VHE) gamma-rays. It has been…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-12-15 P L Prinsloo , C Venter , I Büsching , A Kopp

We discuss growing evidence that pulsar high energy is emission is generated via Inverse Compton mechanism. We reproduce the broadband spectrum of Crab pulsar, from UV to very high energy gamma-rays - nearly ten decades in energy, within…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-11 Maxim Lyutikov

The origin of the Galactic Center gamma-ray excess has not been conclusively determined after over a decade of careful study. The two most widely discussed possibilities are a population of millisecond pulsars (MSPs), and annihilation of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-10-04 Eric J. Baxter , Jason Kumar

A new study of the diffuse Galactic gamma-ray continuum radiation is presented, using a cosmic-ray propagation model which includes nucleons, antiprotons, electrons, positrons, and synchrotron radiation. Our treatment of the inverse Compton…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 A. W. Strong , I. V. Moskalenko , O. Reimer

The recent detection of extended $\gamma$-ray emission around middle-aged pulsars is interpreted as inverse-Compton scattering of ambient photons by electron-positron pairs escaping the pulsar wind nebula, which are confined near the system…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-11-12 S. Abdollahi , F. Acero , A. Acharyya , A. Adelfio , M. Ajello , L. Baldini , J. Ballet , C. Bartolini , J. Becerra Gonzalez , R. Bellazzini , E. Bissaldi , R. Bonino , P. Bruel , R. A. Cameron , P. A. Caraveo , D. Castro , E. Cavazzuti , C. C. Cheung , N. Cibrario , S. Ciprini , G. Cozzolongo , P. Cristarella Orestano , A. Cuoco , S. Cutini , F. D'Ammando , N. Di Lalla , A. Dinesh , L. Di Venere , A. Domínguez , A. Fiori , S. Funk , P. Fusco , F. Gargano , C. Gasbarra , D. Gasparrini , S. Germani , F. Giacchino , N. Giglietto , M. Giliberti , F. Giordano , M. Giroletti , D. Green , I. A. Grenier , L. Guillemot , S. Guiriec , R. Gupta , M. Hashizume , E. Hays , J. W. Hewitt , D. Horan , X. Hou , T. Kayanoki , M. Kuss , A. Laviron , M. Lemoine-Goumard , A. Liguori , J. Li , I. Liodakis , P. Loizzo , F. Longo , F. Loparco , L. Lorusso , M. N. Lovellette , P. Lubrano , S. Maldera , D. Malyshev , G. Martí-Devesa , P. Martin , M. N. Mazziotta , I. Mereu , P. F. Michelson , N. Mirabal , W. Mitthumsiri , T. Mizuno , P. Monti-Guarnieri , M. E. Monzani , A. Morselli , I. V. Moskalenko , M. Negro , N. Omodei , M. Orienti , E. Orlando , D. Paneque , G. Panzarini , M. Persic , M. Pesce-Rollins , R. Pillera , T. A. Porter , S. Rainò , R. Rando , M. Razzano , A. Reimer , O. Reimer , M. Rocamora Bernal , M. Sánchez-Conde , P. M. Saz Parkinson , D. Serini , C. Sgrò , E. J. Siskind , D. A. Smith , G. Spandre , P. Spinelli , A. W. Strong , D. J. Suson , H. Tajima , J. B. Thayer , D. F. Torres , J. Valverde , Z. Wadiasingh , K. Wood , G. Zaharijas

The existence of a population of millisecond pulsars in the Galactic bulge is supported, along with other evidence, by the Fermi GeV excess, an anomalous {\gamma}-ray emission detected almost 15 years ago in the direction of the Galactic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-12-19 J. Berteaud , F. Calore , M. Clavel , J. Marvil , S. Hyman , F. K. Schinzel , M. Kerr