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The Milky Way halo is the brightest source of dark matter annihilation on the sky. Indeed, the potential strength of the Galactic dark matter signal can supersede that expected from dwarf galaxies and galaxy groups even in regions away from…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-12-20 Laura J. Chang , Mariangela Lisanti , Siddharth Mishra-Sharma

It is a clear unique prediction of the cold dark matter paradigm of cosmological structure formation that galaxies form hierarchically and are embedded in massive, extended dark halos teeming with self-bound substructure or "subhalos". The…

Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-18 M. Kuhlen , J. Diemand , P. Madau , M. Zemp

The weakly interacting massive particle (WIMP) often serves as a candidate for the cold dark matter, however when produced non-thermally it could behave like warm dark matter. In this paper we study the properties of the $\gamma$-ray…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2012-12-12 Qiang Yuan , Yixian Cao , Jie Liu , Peng-Fei Yin , Liang Gao , Xiao-Jun Bi , Xinmin Zhang

Monochromatic gamma-rays are thought to be the smoking gun signal for identifying the dark matter annihilation. However, the flux of monochromatic gamma-rays is usually suppressed by the virtual quantum effects since dark matter should be…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-19 Zhi-Cheng Tang , Qiang Yuan , Xiao-Jun Bi , Guo-Ming Chen

We provide a ``Baedecker'' or travel guide to the directions on the sky where the dark matter annihilation signal may be expected. We calculate the flux of high energy gamma-rays from annihilation of neutralino dark matter in the centre of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 N. W. Evans , F. Ferrer , Subir Sarkar

We study the gamma rays observed by the Fermi Gamma Ray Space Telescope from the direction of the Galactic Center and find that their angular distribution and energy spectrum are well described by a dark matter annihilation scenario. In…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-11 Lisa Goodenough , Dan Hooper

Gamma rays from the annihilation of dark matter particles in the Galactic halo provide a particularly promising means of indirectly detecting dark matter. Here, we demonstrate that pronounced spectral features at energies near the dark…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-12-05 Torsten Bringmann , Francesca Calore , Gilles Vertongen , Christoph Weniger

We obtain predictions for the properties of cold dark matter annihilation radiation using high resolution hydrodynamic zoom-in cosmological simulations of Milky Way-like galaxies (APOSTLE project) carried out as part of the "Evolution and…

Detection of gamma rays from dark matter annihilation in the galactic center is one of the feasible techniques to search for dark matter. We evaluate the gamma ray flux in the case that the dark matter has an electroweak SU(2)_L charge.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-10 Junji Hisano , Shigeki. Matsumoto , Mihoko M. Nojiri , Osamu Saito

In the frame of indirect dark matter searches we investigate the flux of high-energy $\gamma$-ray photons produced by annihilation of dark matter in caustics within our Galaxy under the hypothesis that the bulk of dark matter is composed of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Lidia Pieri , Enzo Branchini

Recently a series of indications have been put forward suggesting the presence of two gamma-ray lines at 110-130 GeV (centered at 111 and 129 GeV). Signals of these lines have been observed toward the Galactic center, at some galaxy…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-08-28 Ilias Cholis , Hani Nurbiantoro Santosa , Maryam Tavakoli , Piero Ullio

We study direct and indirect detection possibilities of neutralino dark matter produced non-thermally by e.g. the decay of long-lived particles, as is easily implemented in the case of anomaly or mirage mediation models. In this scenario,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 Minoru Nagai , Kazunori Nakayama

In this proceeding, we briefly review three recent results. First, we show that halos formed in simulations with gas cooling are significantly rounder than halos formed in dissipationless $N$-body simulations. The increase in principle axis…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-11-03 Andrew R. Zentner , Savvas M. Koushiappas , Stelios Kazantzidis

The central region of the dark matter halo of the Milky Way is a promising target for a search for a particle dark matter annihilation signal. The H.E.S.S. Collaboration has published a search for a photon flux originating from dark matter…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-03-06 Gerrit Spengler , Ullrich Schwanke

Although the emission of radiation from dark matter annihilation is expected to be maximized at the Galactic Center, geometric factors and the presence of point-like and diffuse backgrounds make the choice of the angular window size to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Pasquale D. Serpico , Gabrijela Zaharijas

The excess above 1 GeV in the energy spectrum of the diffuse Galactic gamma radiation, measured with the EGRET experiment, can be interpreted as the annihilation of Dark Matter (DM) particles. The DM is distributed in a halo around the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-10-29 Markus Weber

Dark matter in the halos surrounding galaxy groups and clusters can annihilate to high-energy photons. Recent advancements in the construction of galaxy group catalogs provide many thousands of potential extragalactic targets for dark…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-05-07 Mariangela Lisanti , Siddharth Mishra-Sharma , Nicholas L. Rodd , Benjamin R. Safdi , Risa H. Wechsler

In this work, we investigate the discovery potential of low-mass Galactic dark matter (DM) subhaloes for indirect searches of DM. We use data from the Via Lactea II (VL-II) N-body cosmological simulation, which resolves subhaloes down to…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-05-01 Alejandra Aguirre-Santaella , Miguel A. Sánchez-Conde

The paradigm of the neutralino dark matter predicts that the first gravitationally bound objects are earth-mass sized microhaloes, which would emit annihilation gamma-rays. Here we show that, though the flux from individual nearest…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Takeshi Oda , Tomonori Totani , Masahiro Nagashima

Individual extragalactic dark matter halos, such as those associated with nearby galaxies and galaxy clusters, are promising targets for searches for gamma-rays from dark matter annihilation. We review the predictions for the annihilation…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-08-22 Chiamaka Okoli , James E. Taylor , Niayesh Afshordi