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The GeV-scale gamma-ray excess observed from the region surrounding the Galactic Center has been interpreted as either the products of annihilating dark matter particles, or as the emission from a large population of faint and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-05-10 Celeste Keith , Dan Hooper , Tim Linden

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…

Globular clusters are source of gamma-ray radiation. At GeV energies, their emission is attributed to magnetospheric activity of millisecond pulsars residing in the clusters. Inverse Compton scattering of ambient photon fields on…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-05-22 A. Zajczyk , W. Bednarek , B. Rudak

Excess GeV gamma rays from the Galactic Center (GC) have been measured with the Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT). The presence of the GC excess (GCE) appears to be robust with respect to changes in the diffuse galactic background modeling.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-05-24 Thomas Lacroix , Oscar Macias , Chris Gordon , Paolo Panci , Celine Boehm , Joseph Silk

In this work, we consider the possible presence of a large population of millisecond pulsars in the Galactic Centre. Their direct detection would be challenging due to severe pulse broadening caused by scattering of radiation. We propose a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-09-20 Paul C. W. Lai , Matteo Agostini , Foteini Oikonomou , Beatrice Crudele , Ellis R. Owen , Kinwah Wu

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

Employing Fermi-LAT gamma ray observations, several independent groups have found excess extended gamma ray emission at the Galactic center (GC). Both, annihilating dark matter (DM) or a population of $\sim 10^3$ unresolved millisecond…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-12-12 Chris Gordon , Oscar Macias

Analyses of Fermi Gamma-Ray Space Telescope data have revealed a source of excess diffuse gamma rays towards the Galactic center that extends up to roughly $\pm$20 degrees in latitude. The leading theory postulates that this GeV excess is…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-07-19 Deheng Song , Oscar Macias , Shunsaku Horiuchi

We explore the enigmatic population of long-period, apparently non-recycled pulsars in globular clusters, building on recent work by Boyles et al (2011). This population is difficult to explain if it formed through typical core collapse…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2012-08-24 Ryan S. Lynch , Duncan R. Lorimer , Scott M. Ransom , Jason Boyles

A gamma-ray excess over background has been claimed in the inner regions of the Galaxy, triggering some excitement about the possibility that the gamma rays originate from the annihilation of dark matter particles. We point out that the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-08-01 Eric Carlson , Stefano Profumo

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

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

Observations by the Fermi-LAT have uncovered a bright, spherically symmetric excess surrounding the center of the Milky Way galaxy. The spectrum of the gamma-ray excess peaks sharply at an energy ~2 GeV, exhibiting a hard spectrum at lower…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-02-28 Tim Linden , Nicholas L. Rodd , Benjamin R. Safdi , Tracy R. Slatyer

The nature of the Fermi gamma-ray Galactic Center Excess (GCE) has remained a persistent mystery for over a decade. Although the excess is broadly compatible with emission expected due to dark matter annihilation, an explanation in terms of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-03-29 Siddharth Mishra-Sharma , Kyle Cranmer

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

Past studies have identified a spatially extended excess of $\sim$1-3 GeV gamma rays from the region surrounding the Galactic Center, consistent with the emission expected from annihilating dark matter. We revisit and scrutinize this signal…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-02-24 Tansu Daylan , Douglas P. Finkbeiner , Dan Hooper , Tim Linden , Stephen K. N. Portillo , Nicholas L. Rodd , Tracy R. Slatyer

The exclusive Galactic gamma-ray club has opened up to new members. Supernova remnants, pulsar wind nebulae, and massive binary systems hosting a compact object have recently joined the young pulsars as firmly established sources of gamma…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-04-03 Isabelle A. Grenier

The Galactic Center (GC) is potentially hosting the largest indirect signal from particle dark matter (DM), which in many well-motivated models would produce gamma rays as their final states. However, this region has often been dismissed…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-11-06 Silvia Manconi , Christopher Eckner , Francesca Calore , Fiorenza Donato

We present the results of a population synthesis of radio and gamma-ray millisecond pulsars (MSPs) from the Galactic Disk (GD). Using 92 radio millisecond pulsars detected in 13 radio surveys and 54 Fermi MSPs detected as point sources in…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-08-29 Peter L. Gonthier , Alice K. Harding , Elizabeth C. Ferrara , Sara E. Frederick , Victoria E. Mohr , Yew-Meng Koh

The Fermi-LAT Galactic Center excess and the 511 keV positron-annihilation signal from the inner Galaxy bare a striking morphological similarity. We propose that both can be explained through a scenario in which millisecond pulsars produce…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-08-15 Richard Bartels , Francesca Calore , Emma Storm , Christoph Weniger