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We estimate the probability of detecting gamma-rays from the annihilation of neutralino dark matter in the substructure of the Milky Way. We characterize substructure statistically based on Monte Carlo realizations of the formation of a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Savvas M. Koushiappas , Andrew R. Zentner , Terrence P. Walker

One of the goals of NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope (formerly GLAST) will be detection of gamma rays from dark-matter annihilation in the Galactic halo. Theoretical arguments suggest that dark matter may be bound into subhalos with…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Shin'ichiro Ando , Marc Kamionkowski , Samuel K. Lee , Savvas M. Koushiappas

We estimate the probability of detecting gamma-rays from the annihilation of neutralino dark matter in dense, central regions of Milky Way substructure. We characterize Galactic substructure statistically based on Monte Carlo realizations…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Savvas M. Koushiappas , Andrew R. Zentner , Terrence P. Walker

A number of papers attempt to explain the positron anomaly in cosmic rays, observed by PAMELA and AMS-02, in terms of dark matter (DM) decays or annihilations. However, the recent progress in cosmic gamma-ray studies challenges these…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-01-12 Konstantin Belotsky , Ruslan Budaev , Alexander Kirillov , Maxim Laletin

The diffuse galactic EGRET gamma ray data show a clear excess for energies above 1 GeV in comparison with the expectations from conventional galactic models. The excess is seen with the same spectrum in all sky directions, as expected for…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-10 W. de Boer

We investigate different neutrino signals from the decay of dark matter particles to determine the prospects for their detection, and more specifically if any spectral signature can be disentangled from the background in present and future…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-04-23 Laura Covi , Michael Grefe , Alejandro Ibarra , David Tran

Dark matter (DM) constitutes around a 25% of the Universe, while baryons only a 4%. DM can be reasonably assumed to be made of particles, and many theories (Super-symmetry, Universal Extra Dimensions, etc.) predict Weakly Interacting…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-03-02 A. Morselli , B. Canadas , V. Vitale

Dark matter (DM) in the Milky Way halo may annihilate or decay to photons, producing monochromatic gamma rays. We search for DM-induced spectral lines using 14 years of data from the Large Area Telescope onboard the Fermi Gamma-ray Space…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-06-07 Joshua W. Foster , Yujin Park , Benjamin R. Safdi , Yotam Soreq , Weishuang Linda Xu

We discuss the possibility of GLAST detecting gamma-rays from the annihilation of neutralino dark matter in the Galactic halo. We have used "Via Lactea", currently the highest resolution simulation of Galactic cold dark matter substructure,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-23 Michael Kuhlen , Jürg Diemand , Piero Madau

Dark matter annihilations taking place in nearby subhalos could appear as gamma-ray sources without detectable counterparts at other wavelengths. In this study, we consider the collection of unassociated gamma-ray sources reported by the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-12-23 Bridget Bertoni , Dan Hooper , Tim Linden

The apparent excess of gamma rays in an extended region in the direction of the galactic center has a spatial distribution and amplitude that are suggestive of dark matter annihilations. If this excess is indeed due to dark matter…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-19 Adam Martin , Jessie Shelton , James Unwin

The extra-dimensional origin of dark matter is a fascinating and nowadays often discussed possibility. Here, we present the gamma-ray signatures that are expected from the self-annihilation of Kaluza-Klein dark matter particles. For…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Lars Bergstrom , Torsten Bringmann , Martin Eriksson , Michael Gustafsson

We study indirect detection signals from solar annihilation of dark matter (DM) particles into light right-handed (RH) neutrinos with a mass in a $1-5$ GeV range. These RH neutrinos can have a sufficiently long lifetime to allow them to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-04-12 Rouzbeh Allahverdi , Yu Gao , Bradley Knockel , Shashank Shalgar

Dark matter decay or annihilation may produce monochromatic signals in the gamma-ray energy range. In this work we argue that there are strong theoretical motivations for studying these signals in the framework of gravitino dark matter…

We consider the diffuse gamma ray data from FERMI first year observations and compare them to the gamma ray fluxes predicted by Dark Matter annihilation or decay (both from prompt emission and from Inverse Compton Scattering), for different…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-13 Marco Cirelli , Paolo Panci , Pasquale D. Serpico

In light of recent observations of an anomalous excess of high-energy positrons and electrons by the PAMELA and Fermi LAT experiments, we investigate exotic cosmic-ray signatures in scenarios with unstable dark matter that decays with an…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-05-14 David Tran

A new estimation of the gamma-ray flux that we expect to detect from SUSY dark matter annihilation from the Draco dSph is presented using the DM density profiles compatible with the latest observations. This calculation takes also into…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-23 Miguel A. Sanchez-Conde

The detection of gamma-rays from dark matter (DM) annihilation is among the scientific goals of the Fermi Large Area Telescope (formerly known as GLAST) and Cherenkov telescopes. In this paper we investigate the existence of realistic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 L. Pieri , A. Pizzella , E. M. Corsini , E. Dalla Bonta' , F. Bertola

The apparent gamma-ray excess in the Galactic center region and inner Galaxy has attracted considerable interest, notably because both its spectrum and radial distribution are consistent with an interpretation in terms of annihilating dark…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-12-03 Torsten Bringmann , Martin Vollmann , Christoph Weniger

We investigate and compare the possibilities of observing decaying dark matter (DM) in $\gamma$-ray and radio telescopes. The special emphasise of the study is on a scalar heavy DM particle with mass in the trans-TeV range. DM decays,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-09-07 Avirup Ghosh , Arpan Kar , Biswarup Mukhopadhyaya