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The results of a kinematic study of the Galactic bulge based on spectra of red giants in fields at projected distances of 1.4-1.8 kpc from the Galactic center are presented. There is a marked trend of kinematics with metallicity, in the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 Dante Minniti

Recent observations indicate that in some Milky Way globular clusters (GCs) pristine red giant branch (RGB) stars appear more centrally concentrated than enriched ones. This contradicts most multiple stellar population (MSP) formation…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-05-19 P. Berczik , O. Sobodar , F. Flammini Dotti , M. Sobolenko , M. Ishchenko , R. Spurzem , M. Giersz , A. Askar

As the evolutionary link between the radio millisecond pulsars (MSPs) and the low mass X-ray binaries or intermediate mass X-ray binaries, the millisecond X-ray pulsars (MSXPs) are important objects in testing theories of pulsar formation…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-10-14 Chunhua Zhu , Guoliang Lu , Zhaojun Wang

Population synthesis is used to study the contribution from undetected sources to the Galactic ridge emission measured by EGRET. Synthesized source counts are compared with the 3rd EGRET catalogue at low and high latitudes. For pulsar-like…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 A. W. Strong

Millisecond pulsars (MSPs) represent nearly half of the more than 160 currently known $\gamma$-ray pulsars detected by the Large Area Telescope on the \textit{Fermi} satellite, and a third of all known MSPs are seen in $\gamma$ rays. The…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-03-02 L. Guillemot , D. A. Smith , H. Laffon , G. H. Janssen , I. Cognard , G. Theureau , G. Desvignes , E. C. Ferrara , P. S. Ray

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

We produce synthetic populations of pulsars within our Galaxy and calculate the resulting scale heights as well as the radial and space velocity distributions of the pulsars. Results are presented for isolated pulsars, binary pulsars and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2009-11-13 Paul Kiel , Jarrod Hurley

Diffuse gamma-ray line emission traces freshly produced radioisotopes in the interstellar gas, providing a unique perspective on the entire Galactic cycle of matter from nucleosynthesis in massive stars to their ejection and mixing in the…

Two generations of stars, G1 and G2, typically populate Galactic globular clusters (GCs). The origin of G2 stars is unclear. We uncover two empirical dependencies between GC characteristics, which can be explained by the formation of G2…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-09-23 Valery Kravtsov , Sami Dib , Francisco A. Calderon , Jose A. Belinchon

Pulsars, if existing and detectable in the immediate vicinity of the massive black hole (MBH) in the Galactic center (GC), may be used as a superb tool to probe both the environment and the metric of the central MBH. The recent discovery of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-18 Fupeng Zhang , Youjun Lu , Qingjuan Yu

The Galactic Center is host to a population of extraordinary radio filaments, thin linear structures that trace out magnetic field lines running perpendicular to the Galactic plane. Using Murriyang, the 64 m Parkes radio telescope, we…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-05-08 Marcus E. Lower , Shi Dai , Simon Johnston , Ewan D. Barr

We apply a likelihood analysis to pulsar detections, pulsar upper limits, and diffuse background measurements from the OSSE and EGRET instruments on the Compton Gamma Ray Observatory to constrain the luminosity law for gamma-ray pulsars and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 M. A. McLaughlin , J. M. Cordes

We have modelled the high-energy astrophysics of the inner 200 pc of the Galaxy with a view to explaining the diffuse, broad-band (radio continuum to TeV gamma-ray), non-thermal signal detected from this region. Our modelling pins down the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2011-03-29 Roland M. Crocker

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

Gravitational microlensing is currently the only technique that helps study the Galactic distribution of planets as a function of distance from the Galactic center. The Galactic location of a lens system can be uniquely determined only when…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2021-09-08 Naoki Koshimoto , David P. Bennett , Daisuke Suzuki , Ian A. Bond

Statistical evidence has previously suggested that the Galactic Center GeV Excess (GCE) originates largely from point sources, and not from annihilating dark matter. We examine the impact of unmodeled source populations on identifying the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-12-18 Rebecca K. Leane , Tracy R. Slatyer

Like most galaxies, the Milky Way harbors a supermassive black hole (SMBH) at its center, surrounded by a nuclear star cluster. In this dense star cluster, direct collisions can occur between stars before they evolve off the main-sequence.…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-04-24 Sanaea C. Rose , Smadar Naoz , Re'em Sari , Itai Linial

The possible gamma-ray excess in the inner Galaxy and the Galactic center (GC) suggested by Fermi-LAT observations has triggered a large number of studies. It has been interpreted as a variety of different phenomena such as a signal from…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-22 Francesca Calore , Ilias Cholis , Christoph Weniger

We present results of our pulsar population synthesis of normal pulsars from the Galactic disk using our previously developed computer code. On the same footing, we use slot gap and outer gap models for gamma-ray emission from normal…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-27 Peter L. Gonthier , Caleb Billman , Alice K. Harding , Isabelle A. Grenier , Marco Pierbattista

The systemic recoil velocity ($v_\mathrm{sys}$) distribution of millisecond pulsars (MSPs) is essential for understanding the MSP formation channel(s) and for estimating the retention fractions of MSPs in star clusters. However, the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-01-14 Hao Ding