Dark matter versus pulsars: catching the impostor
| dc.contributor.author | Mirabal, N. | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2020-09-02T16:05:21Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2020-09-02T16:05:21Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2013-10-08 | |
| dc.description.abstract | Evidence of excess GeV emission nearly coinciding with the Galactic Centre has been interpreted as a possible signature of annihilating dark matter. In this paper, we argue that it seems too early to discard pulsars as a viable explanation for the observed excess. On the heels of the recently released Second Fermi LAT Pulsar Catalogue (2FPC), it is still possible that a population of hard (Γ < 1) millisecond pulsars (MSPs) either endemic to the innermost region or part of a larger nascent collection of hard MSPs that appears to be emerging in the 2FPC could explain the GeV excess near the Galactic Centre. | en_US |
| dc.description.sponsorship | We thank K. S. Cheng for referring us to the Wang et al. (2005) paper. We acknowledge Dan Hooper and Per Olof Lindblad for helpful email exchanges. We also thank the referee for useful suggestions and comments on the manuscript. NM acknowledges support from the Spanish taxpayers through a Ramón y Cajal fellowship and the Consolider-Ingenio 2010 Programme under grant MultiDark CSD2009-00064. | en_US |
| dc.description.uri | https://academic.oup.com/mnras/article/436/3/2461/1254001 | en_US |
| dc.format.extent | 5 pages | en_US |
| dc.genre | journal articles preprints | en_US |
| dc.identifier | doi:10.13016/m2axrt-hdbx | |
| dc.identifier.citation | N. Mirabal, Dark matter versus pulsars: catching the impostor, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 436, Issue 3, 11 December 2013, Pages 2461–2464, https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stt1740 | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stt1740 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/11603/19563 | |
| dc.language.iso | en_US | en_US |
| dc.publisher | Oxford Academic | en_US |
| dc.relation.isAvailableAt | The University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC) | |
| dc.relation.ispartof | UMBC Physics Department Collection | |
| dc.relation.ispartof | UMBC Joint Center for Earth Systems Technology (JCET) | |
| dc.relation.ispartof | UMBC Center for Space Sciences and Technology (CSST) / Center for Research and Exploration in Space Sciences & Technology II (CRSST II) | |
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| dc.rights | This article has been accepted for publication in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Royal Astronomical Society. | |
| dc.title | Dark matter versus pulsars: catching the impostor | en_US |
| dc.type | Text | en_US |