  Analysing 9 years of Fermi-LAT observations, we recently studied the spectral
properties of the prominent globular cluster 47 Tuc (Brown et al. 2018). In
particular, we investigated several models to explain the observed gamma-ray
emission, ranging from millisecond pulsars (MSP) to Dark Matter (DM), with the
motivation for the latter model driven by recent evidence that 47 Tuc harbours
an intermediate-mass black hole (IMBH). This investigation found evidence that
the observed gamma-ray emission from 47 Tuc is due to two source populations of
MSPs and DM. In Bartels \& Edwards (2018), the authors comment that this
evidence is an artifact of the MSP spectra used in (Brown et al. 2019). Here we
reply to this comment and argue that the authors of Bartels \& Edwards (2018)
(i) do not give due consideration to a very important implication of their
result and (ii) there is tension between our MSP fit and their MSP fit when
taking uncertainties into consideration. As such, we still conclude there is
evidence for a DM component which motivates a deeper radio study of the
prominent globular cluster 47 Tuc.
