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Indirect search for Dark Matter with H.E.S.S

Astrophysics 2008-11-26 v1

Abstract

Observations of the Galactic center region with the H.E.S.S. telescopes have established the existence of a steady, extended source of gamma-ray emission coinciding with the position of the super massive black hole Sgr A*. This is a remarkable finding given the expected presence of dense self-annihilating Dark Matter in the Galactic center region. The self-annihilation process is giving rise to gamma-ray production through hadronization including the production of neutral pions which decay into gamma-rays but also through (loop-suppressed) annihilation into final states of almost mono-energetic photons. We study the observed gamma-ray signal (spectrum and shape) from the Galactic center in the context of Dark Matter annihilation and indicate the prospects for further indirect Dark matter searches with H.E.S.S.

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@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0702373,
  title  = {Indirect search for Dark Matter with H.E.S.S},
  author = {D. Horns},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0702373},
  year   = {2008}
}

Comments

9 pages, 3 figures. Accepted for Publication in Advances is Space Research, COSPAR meeting Beijing (2006)

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