The spin axes of globular clusters and correlations with gamma-ray emission

A growing number of Milky Way globular clusters have been identified to possess a noticeable degree of solid-body rotation. For several clusters, the combination of stellar proper motions and radial velocities allows for 3-dimensional spin axes to be extracted. In this paper we consider the orientations of these spin axes, and ask whether they are correlated with any other properties of the clusters -- either global properties to do with their orbits and origin, or internal properties related to the cluster composition. We discuss the possibility of alignments between the spin axes of globular clusters, chemodynamical groupings, and their orbital poles. We also point out a previously unidentified negative correlation between the measured gamma-ray emissivities and the inclination of the globular cluster spins with respect to the line of sight. Given that this correlation is not present in other wavelengths, we cannot conclusively attribute it solely to sampling bias. If the correlation holds up to scrutiny with more data, it may be indicative of sources of anisotropic gamma-ray emission in globular clusters. We discuss the plausibility of such an anisotropy arising from a population of dynamically formed millisecond pulsars with some degree of spin-orbit alignment.