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Title: Radio detection of the predicted bulge millisecond pulsar population
Plain: If pulsars make the excess, deep radio surveys toward the bulge should find many of them.
Precise: The pulsar explanation requires a bulge population whose gamma-ray luminosity function matches the excess, implying a definite number of millisecond pulsars above the flux limits of MeerKAT, FAST and SKA-Mid bulge surveys (down to $\sim 1e-5\ \mathrm{Jy}$ at 1.4 GHz). Determine the number detected and whether it agrees within a factor of 2 with the population required. Answer: yes or no with the count.
Settled by: A completed deep radio pulsar survey of the inner bulge with modeled sensitivity, compared with the required population.
Kind: well-posed
Answer type: yes-no
References: (empty)
Literature status: open
Status note: (empty)
Posed since: (empty)