Millisecond Pulsars in Globular Clusters and Implications for the
Galactic Center Gamma-Ray Excess
Millisecond Pulsars in Globular Clusters and Implications for the
Galactic Center Gamma-Ray Excess
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 $\langle L_{\gamma}\rangle \sim (1-8)\times 10^{33}\, {\rm erg/s}$ (integrated between 0.1 and 100 GeV) and …