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The mysterious Galactic Center Excess of gamma rays could be explained by a large population of millisecond pulsars hiding in the Galactic bulge, too faint to be detected as individual high-energy point sources by the Fermi Large Area…

Excess of gamma rays with a spherical morphology 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 excess has been interpreted by…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-06-07 Dmitry V. Malyshev

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 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

Two unresolved questions at galaxy centers, namely the formation of the nuclear star cluster (NSC) and the origin of the gamma-ray excess in the Milky Way (MW) and Andromeda (M31), are both related to the formation and evolution of globular…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-12-27 Yuan Gao , Hui Li , Xiaojia Zhang , Meng Su , Stephen Chi Yung Ng

Globular clusters (GCs) are the ideal environment for the formation of neutron stars (NSs) and millisecond pulsars (MSPs). NSs origin and evolution provide a useful information on stellar dynamics and evolution in star clusters, and are…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-08-29 Giacomo Fragione , Václav Pavlík , Sambaran Banerjee

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

The recent analyses of the Fermi Large Area Telescope data show an extended GeV $\gamma$-ray excess on top of the expected diffuse background in the Galactic center region, which can be explained with annihilating dark matter or a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-04-23 Qiang Yuan , Kunihito Ioka

If millisecond pulsars (MSPs) are responsible for the excess gamma-ray emission observed from the region surrounding the Galactic Center, the same region should also contain a large population of low-mass X-ray binaries (LMXBs). In this…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-06-15 Daryl Haggard , Craig Heinke , Dan Hooper , Tim Linden

The new tools of gravitational wave and multi-messenger astronomy allow for the study of astrophysical phenomenon in new ways and enables light to be shed on some of the longest-enduring mysteries of high-energy astrophysics. Among the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-01-09 Kayla Bartel , Stefano Profumo

The gamma-ray Fermi-LAT Galactic centre excess (GCE) has puzzled scientists for over 15 years. Despite ongoing debates about its properties, and especially its spatial distribution, its nature remains elusive. We scrutinize how the…

The nature of the GeV gamma-ray Galactic center excess (GCE) in the data of Fermi-Large Area Telescope (LAT) is still to be unveiled. We present a new analysis of the inner Galaxy Fermi-LAT data at energies above 10 GeV, based on an…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-05-27 Silvia Manconi , Francesca Calore , Fiorenza Donato

Diffuse TeV emission has been observed by H.E.S.S. in the Galactic Center region, in addition to the GeV gamma rays observed by Fermi. We propose that a population of unresolved millisecond pulsars located around the Galactic Center,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-08-08 Claire Guépin , Lucia Rinchiuso , Kumiko Kotera , Emmanuel Moulin , Tanguy Pierog , Joseph Silk

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

Pulsed emission from almost one hundred millisecond pulsars (MSPs) has been detected in $\gamma$-rays by the Fermi Large-Area Telescope. The global properties of this population remain relatively unconstrained despite many attempts to model…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-09-25 R. T. Bartels , T. D. P. Edwards , C. Weniger

It was proposed that the central dense stellar cluster in the Galactic Center, containing the mass of $\sim$4 times larger than that of the central black hole, had been formed as a result of a merging of several massive globular clusters.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-02-12 W. Bednarek , T. Sobczak

We estimate the contribution of Galactic pulsars, both ordinary and millisecond pulsars (MSPs), to the high-energy (>100 MeV) gamma-ray background. We pay particular attention to the high-latitude part of the background that could be…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2010-01-15 C. -A. Faucher-Giguere , Abraham Loeb

The Fermi Gamma-Ray Space Telescope has provided evidence for diffuse gamma-ray emission in the central parts of the Milky Way and the Andromeda galaxy. This excess has been interpreted either as dark matter annihilation emission or as…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-01-30 Giacomo Fragione , Fabio Antonini , Oleg Y. Gnedin

Studies of Fermi data indicate an excess of GeV gamma rays around the Galactic center (GC), possibly due to dark matter. We show that young gamma-ray pulsars can yield a similar signal. First, a high concentration of GC supernovae naturally…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-04-15 Ryan M. O'Leary , Matthew D. Kistler , Matthew Kerr , Jason Dexter

Gamma-ray observations have shown pulsars to be efficient converters of rotational energy into GeV photons and it is of wide-ranging interest to determine their contribution to the gamma-ray background. We arrive at flux predictions from…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-01-26 Ryan M. O'Leary , Matthew D. Kistler , Matthew Kerr , Jason Dexter