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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

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

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

We report on a likelihood stacking search for gamma-ray pulsars at 362 high-latitude locations that coincide with known radio pulsar positions. We observe a stacked signal conservatively 2.5$\sigma$ over the background. Stacking their…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-08-04 Yuzhe Song , Timothy A. D. Paglione , Joshua Tan , Charles Lee-Georgescu , Danisbel Herrera

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

Globular clusters are known to harbour a significant population of neutron star X-ray binaries that could be responsible for delaying the inevitable core collapse of these dense clusters. As a result, their progeny, namely millisecond…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2010-01-13 N. A. Webb , J. Knödlseder

Observations in radio have shown that galaxy clusters are giant reservoirs of cosmic rays (CR). Although a gamma- ray signal from the cluster volume is expected to arise through interactions of CR protons with the ambient plasma, a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-17 B. Huber , C. Tchernin , D. Eckert , C. Farnier , A. Manalaysay , U. Straumann , R. Walter

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

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

The launch of the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope has heralded a new era in the study of gamma-ray pulsars. The population of confirmed gamma-ray pulsars has gone from 6-7 to more than 60, and the superb sensitivity of the Large Area…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-19 Paul S. Ray , Pablo M. Saz Parkinson

The Fermi Large Area Telescope (Fermi-LAT) has recently revealed a large population of gamma-ray emitting millisecond pulsars (MSPs) in our Galaxy. We aim to infer the properties of the Galactic population of gamma-ray emitting MSPs from…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-15 Tristan Grégoire , Jürgen Knödlseder

We have searched for millisecond pulsars (MSPs) in two globular clusters detected by the Fermi Large Area Telescope. These clusters contained no known MSPs prior to their detections in gamma rays. The discovery of gamma ray emission from…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2011-11-03 Megan E. DeCesar , Scott M. Ransom , Paul S. Ray

Clusters of galaxies have not yet been detected at gamma-ray frequencies; however, the recently launched Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope, formerly known as GLAST, could provide the first detections in the near future. Clusters are expected…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-07-14 Tesla E. Jeltema , John Kehayias , Stefano Profumo

We analyzed the globular cluster M5 (NGC 5904) using 15 years of gamma-ray data from the Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT). Using rotation ephemerides generated from Arecibo and FAST radio telescope observations, we searched for gamma-ray…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-03-26 X. Hou , W. Zhang , P. C. C. Freire , D. F. Torres , J. Ballet , D. A. Smith , T. J. Johnson , M. Kerr , C. C. Cheung , L. Guillemot , J. Li , L. Zhang , A. Ridolfi , P. Wang , D. Li , J. Yuan , N. Wang

In the third Fermi catalogue (3FGL) there are sixteen gamma-ray globular clusters. After analyzing the recent released Pass 8 data of Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT), we report the discovery of significant gamma-ray emission from M 15 and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-03-23 P. F. Zhang , Y. L. Xin , L. Fu , J. N. Zhou , J. Z. Yan , Q. Z. Liu , L. Zhang

During its first 2 years of mission the Fermi-LAT instrument discovered more than 1,800 gamma-ray sources in the 100 MeV to 100 GeV range. Despite the application of advanced techniques to identify and associate the Fermi-LAT sources with…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-03-02 David Salvetti

Distance measurements of gamma-ray pulsars are challenging questions in present pulsar studies. The Large Area Telescope (LAT) aboard the Fermi gamma-ray observatory discovered more than 70 gamma-ray pulsars including 24 new gamma-selected…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-27 W. Wang

We report a statistically significant detection of cumulative $\gamma$-ray emission from a stacked sample of SPT-SZ selected galaxy clusters using 16.4 years of data from the Fermi Gamma-Ray Space Telescope's Large Area Telescope (LAT). By…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-06-05 Siddhant Manna , Shantanu Desai

Galaxy clusters are the most massive gravitationally bound structures in the Universe. Even if clusters are nearly virialized structures, they undergo merging processes, creating merging shocks, and suffer from feedback from galaxies and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-09-22 Judit Pérez-Romero , Mattia di Mauro , Rémi Adam , Miguel Á. Sánchez-Conde , Gabrijela Zaharijas

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…

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