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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

The Galactic Center Excess (GCE) $\gamma$-ray emission detected with the Large Area Telescope onboard the {\it Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope} has been considered as a possible sign for dark matter (DM) annihilation, but other…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-11-14 Yi Xing , Zhongxiang Wang , Feng Huang

Fermi Large Area Telescope data reveal an excess of GeV gamma rays from the direction of the Galactic Center and bulge. Several explanations have been proposed for this excess including an unresolved population of millisecond pulsars (MSPs)…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-08-15 Harrison Ploeg , Chris Gordon , Roland Crocker , Oscar Macias

If the mysterious Fermi-LAT GeV gamma-ray excess is due to an unresolved population of millisecond pulsars (MSP) in the Galactic bulge, one expects this very same population to shine in X rays. For the first time, we address the question of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-09-14 Joanna Berteaud , Francesca Calore , Maica Clavel , Pasquale Dario Serpico , Guillaume Dubus , Pierre-Olivier Petrucci

The Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) has revealed a mysterious extended excess of GeV gamma-ray emission around the Galactic Center, which can potentially be explained by unresolved emission from a population of pulsars, particularly…

Excess of gamma rays 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 spherical morphology and the spectral energy distribution with a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-03-13 Dmitry V. Malyshev

The gigaelectronvolt $\gamma$-ray excess observed towards the Galactic centre remains unexplained. While dark matter annihilation has long been considered a leading explanation, an alternative scenario involving a large population of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-01-23 Valeriya Korol , Andrei Igoshev

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

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

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

An anomalous gamma-ray excess emission has been found in Fermi Large Area Telescope data covering the centre of the Galaxy. Several theories have been proposed for this `Galactic Centre Excess'. They include self-annihilation of dark matter…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-08-10 Oscar Macias , Chris Gordon , Roland M. Crocker , Brenna Coleman , Dylan Paterson , Shunsaku Horiuchi , Martin Pohl

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

The Galactic Center Excess (GCE) is an extended gamma-ray source in the central region of the Galaxy found in Fermi Large Area Telescope (Fermi-LAT) data. One of the leading explanations for the GCE is an unresolved population of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-06-15 Harrison Ploeg , Chris Gordon , Roland Crocker , Oscar Macias

A new population of millisecond pulsars is a long-standing proposed explanation for the excess of GeV-scale gamma rays emanating from the region surrounding the center of the Milky Way (the "Galactic Center excess"). We examine several…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-07-06 Jack T. Dinsmore , Tracy R. Slatyer

The Fermi Large Area Telescope has provided the most detailed view toward the Galactic Centre (GC) in high-energy gamma rays. Besides the interstellar emission and point-source contributions, the data suggest a residual diffuse gamma-ray…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-02-07 Giacomo Fragione , Fabio Antonini , Oleg Y. Gnedin

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

Analogously to globular clusters, the dense stellar environment of the Galactic center has been proposed to host a large population of as-yet undetected millisecond pulsars (MSPs). Recently, this hypothesis found support in the analysis of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-09-13 Francesca Calore , Mattia Di Mauro , Fiorenza Donato , Jason W. T. Hessels , Christoph Weniger

The origin of the Nuclear Star Cluster in the centre of our Galaxy is still unknown. One possibility is that it formed after the disruption of stellar clusters that spiralled into the Galactic Centre due to dynamical friction. We trace the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-11-20 F. Abbate , A. Mastrobuono-Battisti , M. Colpi , A. Possenti , A. C. Sippel , M. Dotti

Observations using the Fermi Large Area Telescope (Fermi-LAT) have found a significant gamma-ray excess surrounding the center of the Milky Way (GC). One possible interpretation of this excess invokes gamma-ray emission from an undiscovered…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-03-23 Tim Linden