Population syntheses of millisecond pulsars from the Galactic Disk and Bulge

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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 the first point source catalog, we establish six free parameters corresponding to the overall factor and the exponents of the period and period derivative dependence for each of the radio and gamma-ray empirical luminosity models.
• We test three high-energy emission models described by the two pole caustic Slot Gap, Outer Gap, and Pair Starved Polar Cap geometries.
• The simulated distributions of pulsar properties adequately describe the distributions of detected MSPs from the GD.