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It has been proposed that during the formation of the first generation stars there might be a "dark star" phase in which the power of the star comes from dark matter annihilation. The adiabatic contraction process to form the dark star…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-04-20 Qiang Yuan , Bin Yue , Bing Zhang , Xuelei Chen

We are at the dawn of a data-driven era in astrophysics and cosmology. A large number of ongoing and forthcoming experiments combined with an increasingly open approach to data availability offer great potential in unlocking some of the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-09-14 Siddharth Mishra-Sharma

We propose to test the dark matter (DM) interpretation of the positron excess observed by the PAMELA cosmic-ray (CR) detector through the identification of a Galactic diffuse gamma-ray component associated to DM-induced prompt and radiative…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2009-09-01 Marco Regis , Piero Ullio

An upper limit on the total annihilation cross section of dark matter (DM) has recently been derived from the observed atmospheric neutrino background. We show that comparable bounds are obtained for DM masses around the TeV scale by…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 M. Kachelriess , P. D. Serpico

The International Gamma-Ray Astrophysics Laboratory (INTEGRAL) satellite has yielded unprecedented measurements of the soft gamma-ray spectrum of our Galaxy. Here we use those measurements to set constraints on dark matter (DM) that decays…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-07-01 Ranjan Laha , Julian B. Muñoz , Tracy R. Slatyer

Dark matter annihilation is one of the leading explanations for the recently observed $e^\pm$ excesses in cosmic rays by PAMELA, ATIC, FERMI-LAT and HESS. Any dark matter annihilation model proposed to explain these data must also explain…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-04-29 Xiao-Jun Bi , Xiao-Gang He , Ernest Ma , Juan Zhang

In light of the first measurement of the positron fraction by the AMS-02 experiment, we perform a detailed global analysis on the interpretation of the latest data of PAMELA, Fermi-LAT, and AMS-02 in terms of dark matter (DM) annihilation…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-15 Hong-Bo Jin , Yue-Liang Wu , Yu-Feng Zhou

Gamma rays and microwave observations of the Galactic Center and surrounding areas indicate the presence of anomalous emission, whose origin remains ambiguous. The possibility of dark matter (DM) annihilation explaining both signals through…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-04-28 Andrey E. Egorov , Jennifer M. Gaskins , Elena Pierpaoli , Davide Pietrobon

Several groups have identified an extended excess of gamma rays over the modeled foreground and background emissions towards the Galactic center (GC) based on observations with the Fermi Large Area Telescope. This excess emission is…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-04-28 Francesca Calore , Ilias Cholis , Christopher McCabe , Christoph Weniger

Taking into account spins, we classify all two-body non-relativistic Dark Matter annihilation channels to the allowed polarization states of Standard Model particles, computing the energy spectra of the stable final-state particles relevant…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-10-07 Marco Cirelli , Mario Kadastik , Martti Raidal , Alessandro Strumia

The particle origin of dark matter (DM) is still one of the main puzzles in modern physics. One of the most promising search strategy to detect DM at laboratories is through the indirect search of cosmic particles that are produced from DM…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-05-04 Haoxiang Zhan

We derive new bounds on decaying Dark Matter from the gamma ray measurements of (i) the isotropic residual (extragalactic) background by Fermi and (ii) the Fornax galaxy cluster by HESS. We find that those from (i) are among the most…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 Marco Cirelli , Emmanuel Moulin , Paolo Panci , Pasquale D. Serpico , Aion Viana

The center of the Milky Way is predicted to be the brightest region of gamma-rays generated by self-annihilating dark matter particles. Excess emission about the Galactic center above predictions made for standard astrophysical processes…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-05-10 Christopher Karwin , Simona Murgia , Tim M. P. Tait , Troy A. Porter , Philip Tanedo

AMS-02 provided the unprecedented statistics in the measurement of the positron fraction from cosmic rays. That may offer a unique opportunity to distinguish the positron spectrum coming from various dark matter (DM) annihilation channels,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-02-17 Yu-Heng Chen , Kingman Cheung , Po-Yan Tseng

In this Letter we explore, for the first time, the constraints on lepton flavor violating (LFV) dark matter (DM) scenarios via the astrophysical photons and positrons, including both the annihilation and decay modes, ${\tt DM(+DM)}\to e^\pm…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-02-06 Jin-Han Liang , Yi Liao , Xiao-Dong Ma

While the excess in cosmic-ray electrons and positrons reported by PAMELA and Fermi may be explained by dark matter decaying primarily into charged leptons, this does not necessarily mean that dark matter should not have any hadronic decay…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-02-16 Chuan-Ren Chen , Sourav K. Mandal , Fuminobu Takahashi

Annihilation of dark matter can result in the production of stable Standard Model particles including electrons and positrons that, in the presence of magnetic fields, lose energy via synchrotron radiation, observable as radio emission.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 Emma Storm , Tesla E. Jeltema , Stefano Profumo , Lawrence Rudnick

Several classes of astrophysical sources contribute to the approximately isotropic gamma-ray background measured by the Fermi Gamma-Ray Space Telescope. In this paper, we use Fermi's catalog of gamma-ray sources (along with corresponding…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-18 Ilias Cholis , Dan Hooper , Samuel D. McDermott

We present a new method to measure or constrain p-wave-suppressed cross sections for dark matter (DM) annihilations inside the steep density spikes induced by supermassive black holes. We demonstrate that the high DM densities, together…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-12-09 Jessie Shelton , Stuart L. Shapiro , Brian D. Fields

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