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2024MNRAS.535..434H - Mon. Not. R. Astron. Soc., 535, 434-442 (2024/November-3)

A gamma-ray stacking survey of Fermi-LAT undetected globular clusters.

HENRY O.K., PAGLIONE T.A.D., SONG Y., TAN J., ZUREK D. and PINTO V.

Abstract (from CDS):

We present evidence for $\gamma$-ray emission from a stacked population of 39 high-latitude globular clusters (GCs) not detected in the Fermi Point Source Catalogue, likely attributable to populations of millisecond pulsars within them. In this work, we use 13 yr of data collected by the Large Area Telescope aboard the Fermi Gamma-Ray Space Telescope to search for a cumulative signal from undetected GCs and compared them to control fields (CFs), selected to match the celestial distribution of the target clusters so as to distinguish the $\gamma$-ray signal from background emission. The joint likelihood distribution of the GCs has a significant separation ($\sim 4\sigma$) from that of the CFs. We also investigate correlations between detected cluster luminosities and other cluster properties such as distance, the number of millisecond pulsars associated with each cluster, and stellar encounter rate but find no significant relationships.

Abstract Copyright: © 2024 The Author(s). Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of Royal Astronomical Society.

Journal keyword(s): pulsars: general - globular clusters: general - gamma-rays: general

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