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The strongest experimental evidence for dark matter is the Galactic Center gamma-ray excess observed by the Fermi telescope and even predicted prior to discovery as a potential dark matter signature via WIMP dark matter self-annihilations.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-08-11 Moorits Mihkel Muru , Joseph Silk , Noam I. Libeskind , Stefan Gottloeber , Yehuda Hoffman

The perspective of the detectability of Galactic dark matter subhaloes on the Fermi satellite is investigated in this work. Under the assumptions that dark matter annihilation accounts for the "GeV excess" of the Galactic diffuse…

Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-18 Qiang Yuan , Xiao-Jun Bi , Juan Zhang

The Galactic diffuse emission is potentially able to reveal much about the sources and propagation of cosmic rays (CR), their spectra and intensities in distant locations. It can possibly unveil WIMP dark matter (DM) through its…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 I. V. Moskalenko , A. W. Strong

Recent advances in gamma-ray cosmic ray, infrared and radio astronomy have allowed us to develop a significantly better understanding of the galactic medium properties in the last few years. In this work using the DRAGON code, that…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-03-05 Maryam Tavakoli , Ilias Cholis , Carmelo Evoli , Piero Ullio

N-body simulations and analytical calculations of the gravitational collapse in an expanding universe predict that halos should form with a diverging inner density profile, the cusp. There are some observational indications that the dark…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 Amr El-Zant , Isaac Shlosman , Yehuda Hoffman

We discuss the potential for the detection of dark matter and the characterization of its particle nature via the observation of dark matter subhalos. Specifically, we discuss the search for dark matter Galactic subhalos in the gamma-ray…

We study evolution of dark matter substructures, especially how they lose the mass and change density profile after they fall in gravitational potential of larger host halos. We develop an analytical prescription that models the subhalo…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-06-12 Nagisa Hiroshima , Shin'ichiro Ando , Tomoaki Ishiyama

Photon counts statistics have recently been proven to provide a sensitive observable for characterizing gamma-ray source populations and for measuring the composition of the gamma-ray sky. In this work, we generalize the use of the standard…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-02-22 H. -S. Zechlin , A. Cuoco , F. Donato , N. Fornengo , M. Regis

The analysis of optical images of galaxy-galaxy strong gravitational lensing systems can provide important information about the distribution of dark matter at small scales. However, the modeling and statistical analysis of these images is…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-11-30 Adam Coogan , Konstantin Karchev , Christoph Weniger

An ambitious goal in cosmology is to forward-model the observed distribution of galaxies in the nearby Universe today from the initial conditions of large-scale structures. For practical reasons, the spatial resolution at which this can be…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-03-18 Tom Charnock , Guilhem Lavaux , Benjamin D. Wandelt , Supranta Sarma Boruah , Jens Jasche , Michael J. Hudson

The annihilation of dark matter (DM) particles is expected to produce Standard Model particles, providing a potential indirect signature of DM. The clumpy substructure of DM haloes amplifies the expected annihilation signal, an effect…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-30 Feven Markos Hunde , Wojciech A. Hellwing , Maciej Bilicki

We explore the possibility that the density profiles of elliptical galaxies and cold dark matter (CDM) halos found in cosmological simulations can be understood in terms of the same physical process, collisionless gravitational collapse. To…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-06-27 Eli Visbal , Abraham Loeb , Lars Hernquist

We propose a novel method utilizing stellar kinematic data to detect low-mass substructure in the Milky Way's dark matter halo. By probing characteristic wakes that a passing dark matter subhalo leaves in the phase space distribution of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-05-30 Malte Buschmann , Joachim Kopp , Benjamin R. Safdi , Chih-Liang Wu

Well-motivated elementary particle candidates for the dark matter, such as the sterile neutrino, behave as warm dark matter (WDM).For particle masses of order a keV, free streaming produces a cutoff in the linear fluctuation power spectrum…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-05-20 Mark R. Lovell , Carlos S. Frenk , Vincent R. Eke , Adrian Jenkins , Liang Gao , Tom Theuns

We study possible astrophysical and dark matter (DM) explanations for the Fermi gamma-ray haze in the Milky Way halo. As representatives of various DM models, we consider DM particles annihilating into W+W-, b-bbar, and e+e-. In the first…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2011-09-06 Dmitry Malyshev , Ilias Cholis , Joseph D. Gelfand

The recently published GALFA-HI Compact Cloud Catalogue lists 20 neutral hydrogen clouds that might pinpoint previously undiscovered high-latitude dwarf galaxies. Detection of an associated gamma-ray dark matter signal could provide a route…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-15 N. Mirabal

We analyze the recently published Fermi-LAT diffuse gamma-ray measurements in the context of leptonically annihilating or decaying dark matter (DM) with the aim to explain simultaneously the isotropic diffuse gamma-ray and the PAMELA, Fermi…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-11-20 Gert Hütsi , Andi Hektor , Martti Raidal

Resolved rotation curves (RCs) are our best probe of the dark matter distribution around individual galaxies. However their acquisition is resource-intensive, rendering them impractical for large-scale surveys and studies at higher…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-09-02 Tariq Yasin , Harry Desmond

We consider gamma-ray signals of dark matter annihilation in extragalactic halos in the case where dark matter annihilates from a $p$-wave or $d$-wave state. In these scenarios, signals from extragalactic halos are enhanced relative to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-09-19 Eric J. Baxter , Jason Kumar , Aleczander D. Paul , Jack Runburg