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Over the last few years, the data obtained using the Large Area Telescope (LAT) aboard the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope has provided new insights on high-energy processes in globular clusters, particularly those involving compact objects…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-02-22 P. H. Thomas Tam , C. Y. Hui , Albert K H. Kong

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

The presence of an excess gamma-ray signal toward the Galactic center (GC) has now been well established, and is known as the GC excess. Leading explanations for the signal include mis-modeling of the Galactic diffuse emission along the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-03-24 Anne-Katherine Burns , Max Fieg , Christopher M. Karwin , Arvind Rajaraman

A spherical-symmetric gamma-ray emission from the central region of the Galaxy has been recently identified in Fermi-LAT data, and initially associated to dark matter particle annihilations. Guided by the evidence for a high gas density in…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-01-13 Daniele Gaggero , Marco Taoso , Alfredo Urbano , Mauro Valli , Piero Ullio

The Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) has revolutionized high-energy (HE) astronomy, and is making enormous contributions particularly to gamma-ray pulsar science. As a result of the many new pulsar discoveries, the gamma-ray pulsar…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2011-12-15 C. Venter , T. J. Johnson , A. K. Harding

The number of millisecond pulsars (MSPs) observed in Milky Way globular clusters has increased explosively in recent years, but the underlying population is still uncertain due to observational biases. We use state-of-the-art $N$-body…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-12-07 Claire S. Ye , Giacomo Fragione

Enabled by the Fermi Large Area Telescope, we now know young and recycled pulsars fill the gamma-ray sky, and we are beginning to understand their emission mechanism and their distribution throughout the Galaxy. However, key questions…

The diffuse Galactic gamma-ray emission is produced by cosmic rays (CRs) interacting with the interstellar gas and radiation field. Measurements by the Energetic Gamma-Ray Experiment Telescope (EGRET) instrument on the Compton Gamma-Ray…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2010-04-23 LAT Collaboration

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 diffuse gamma-ray emission between 10 and 1000 TeV from the Galactic plane was recently measured by the Large High Altitude Air Shower Observatory (LHAASO). These observations will help tremendously in constraining the propagation and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-11-06 Rui Zhang , Xiaoyuan Huang , Zhi-Hui Xu , Shiping Zhao , Qiang Yuan

Fermi has detected over 200 pulsars above 100 MeV. In a previous work, using 3 years of LAT data (1FHL catalog) we reported that 28 of these pulsars show emission above 10 GeV; only three of these, however, were millisecond pulsars (MSPs).…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-12-20 Pablo M. Saz Parkinson , Andrea Belfiore , David Carreto Fidalgo , Colin J. Clark , Matthew Kerr , Lars Nieder

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 Large Area Telescope, in collaboration with several groups from the radio community, have had marvellous success at uncovering new gamma-ray millisecond pulsars (MSPs). In fact, MSPs now make up a sizable fraction of the total…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-19 C. Venter , A. K. Harding , T. J. Johnson

We use data from the Large Area Telescope onboard the Fermi gamma-ray space telescope (Fermi-LAT) to analyze the faint gamma-ray source located at the center of the Sagittarius (Sgr) dwarf spheroidal galaxy. In the 4FGL-DR3 catalog, this…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-07-19 Addy J. Evans , Louis E. Strigari , Oskar Svenborn , Andrea Albert , J. Patrick Harding , Dan Hooper , Tim Linden , Andrew B. Pace

An anomalous emission component at energies of a few GeV and located towards the inner Galaxy is present in the Fermi-LAT data. It is known as the Fermi-LAT GeV excess. Using almost 8 years of data we reanalyze the characteristics of this…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-08-10 Richard Bartels , Emma Storm , Christoph Weniger , Francesca Calore

Recently, an excess of GeV gamma ray near the Galactic Centre has beenvreported. The spectrum obtained can be best fitted with the annihilationvof $30-40$ GeV dark matter particles through $b \bar{b}$ channel. In this letter, I show that…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-23 Man Ho Chan

Several groups have recently claimed evidence for an unaccounted gamma-ray excess over {the} diffuse backgrounds at few GeV in {the} Fermi-LAT data in a region around the Galactic Center, consistent with a dark matter annihilation origin.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-19 Jovana Petrovic , Pasquale Dario Serpico , Gabrijela Zaharijas

The Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) has recently detected a population of globular clusters (GCs) in high-energy (HE) gamma-rays. Their spectral properties and energetics are consistent with cumulative emission from a population of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2011-11-08 C. Venter , O. C. de Jager , A. Kopp , I. Büsching

Radio pulsar timing array (PTA) experiments using millisecond pulsars (MSPs) are beginning to detect nHz gravitational waves (GWs). MSPs are bright GeV gamma-ray emitters, and all-sky monitoring of about 100 MSPs with the Fermi Large Area…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-12-18 Matthew Kerr , Zorawar Wadiasingh , Adrien Laviron , Constantinos Kalapotharakos , Thankful Cromartie , Tyler Cohen

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
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