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In this study, we investigate the contribution of millisecond pulsars (MSPs) to the gamma-ray excess observed in the Galactic Center by analyzing data from high-resolution direct N-body simulations of six globular clusters (GCs) that…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-10-22 Dana Kuvatova , Taras Panamarev , Maryna Ishchenko , Anton Gluchshenko , Peter Berczik

Using archival {\it Fermi}-LAT data with a time span of $\sim12$ years, we study the population of Millisecond Pulsars (MSPs) in Globular Clusters (GlCs) and investigate their dependence on cluster dynamical evolution in the Milky Way…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-01-30 Li Feng , Zhongqun Cheng , Wei Wang , Zhiyuan Li , Yang Chen

We study the gamma-ray emission from millisecond pulsars within the Milky Way's globular cluster system in order to measure the luminosity function of this source population. We find that these pulsars have a mean luminosity of $\langle…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-03-25 Aurelio Amerio , Dan Hooper , Tim Linden

The Galactic Center Excess (GCE) is an extended gamma-ray source in the central region of the Galaxy found in Fermi Large Area Telescope data. In recent years it has become apparent that the GCE may not be spherically symmetric, but may be…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-09-20 Harrison Ploeg

It has been suggested that the GeV excess, observed from the region surrounding the Galactic Center, might originate from a population of millisecond pulsars that formed in globular clusters. With this in mind, we employ the publicly…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-08-17 Dan Hooper , Tim Linden

Globular clusters (GCs) are evolved stellar systems containing entire populations of millisecond pulsars (MSPs), which are efficient gamma-ray emitters. Observations of this emission can be used as a powerful tool to explore the dynamical…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-04-10 Raniere de Menezes , Fabio Cafardo , Rodrigo Nemmen

It was found in the Fermi-LAT data that there is an extended $\gamma$-ray excess in the Galactic center region. The proposed sources to be responsible for the excess include the dark matter annihilation or an astrophysical alternative from…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-08-05 Qiang Yuan , Bing Zhang

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

Several groups of authors have analyzed Fermi LAT data in a region around the Galactic Center finding an unaccounted gamma-ray excess over diffuse backgrounds in the GeV energy range. It has been argued that it is difficult or even…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-23 Jovana Petrovic , Pasquale D. Serpico , Gabrijela Zaharijas

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

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 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

Over a hundred millisecond radio pulsars (MSPs) have been observed in globular clusters (GCs), motivating theoretical studies of the formation and evolution of these sources through stellar evolution coupled to stellar dynamics. Here we…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-06-12 Claire S. Ye , Kyle Kremer , Sourav Chatterjee , Carl L. Rodriguez , Frederic A. Rasio

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

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

Millisecond pulsars have been discussed as a possible source of the gamma-ray excess observed from the region surrounding the Galactic Center. With this in mind, we use the observed population of bright low-mass X-ray binaries to estimate…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-03-01 Ilias Cholis , Dan Hooper , Tim Linden

It has been proposed that a large population of unresolved millisecond pulsars (MSPs) could potentially account for the excess of GeV-scale gamma-rays observed from the region surrounding the Galactic Center. The viability of this scenario…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-04-13 Dan Hooper , Gopolang Mohlabeng

Millisecond pulsars (MSPs) are neutron stars with spin periods as short as a few milliseconds, formed through mass accretion from companion stars. In the dense environments of globular clusters (GCs), MSPs are likely to originate through…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-11-13 Yuzhe Song , Debatri Chattopadhyay , Jarrod Hurley , Rainer Spurzem , Francesco Flammini Dotti , Kai Wu

The unexplained excess gamma-ray emission from the Milky Way's Galactic Center has puzzled astronomers for nearly a decade. Two theories strive to explain the origin of this excess: self-annihilating dark matter particles or an unresolved…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-05-10 Oliver Boodram , Craig O. Heinke

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
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