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High energy electrons and positrons from decaying dark matter can produce a significant flux of gamma rays by inverse Compton off low energy photons in the interstellar radiation field. This possibility is inevitably related with the dark…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-11-20 Le Zhang , Christoph Weniger , Luca Maccione , Javier Redondo , Guenter Sigl

We present all-sky simulated Fermi maps of gamma-rays from dark matter decay and annihilation in the Local Universe. The dark matter distribution is obtained from a constrained cosmological simulation of the neighboring large-scale…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-19 A. J. Cuesta , T. E. Jeltema , F. Zandanel , S. Profumo , F. Prada , G. Yepes , A. Klypin , Y. Hoffman , S. Gottloeber , J. Primack , M. A. Sanchez-Conde , C. Pfrommer

Recently, it was suggested that the gamma rays observed by the Fermi Gamma Ray Space Telescope from the direction of the galactic center could surprisingly well be described by a dark matter annihilation scenario, both in terms of their…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-09 Torsten Bringmann

In addition to gamma-rays, dark matter annihilation products can include energetic electrons which inverse Compton scatter with the cosmic microwave background to produce a diffuse extragalactic background of gamma-rays and X-rays. In…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-13 Alexander V. Belikov , Dan Hooper

We analyze new diffuse gamma-ray data from the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope, which do not confirm an excess in the EGRET data at galactic mid-latitudes, in combination with measurements of electron and positron fuxes from PAMELA, Fermi…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-06-30 V. Barger , Y. Gao , W. -Y. Keung , D. Marfatia , G. Shaughnessy

We present constraints on decaying and annihilating dark matter (DM) in the 4 keV to 10 GeV mass range, using published results from the satellites HEAO-1, INTEGRAL, COMPTEL, EGRET, and the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope. We derive…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-17 Rouven Essig , Eric Kuflik , Samuel D. McDermott , Tomer Volansky , Kathryn M. Zurek

Several cosmic ray experiments have measured excesses in electrons and positrons, relative to standard backgrounds, for energies from ~ 10 GeV - 1 TeV. These excesses could be due to new astrophysical sources, but an explanation in which…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-11-20 Spencer Chang , Lisa Goodenough

Utilizing the Fermi measurement of the gamma-ray spectrum toward the Galactic Center, we derive some of the strongest constraints to date on the dark matter (DM) lifetime in the mass range from hundreds of MeV to above an EeV. Our…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-06-24 Timothy Cohen , Kohta Murase , Nicholas L. Rodd , Benjamin R. Safdi , Yotam Soreq

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 quest for Dark Matter signals in the gamma-ray sky is one of the most intriguing and exciting challenges in astrophysics. In this paper we perform the analysis of the energy spectrum of the \textit{Fermi bubbles} at different latitudes,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-12-31 Wei-Chih Huang , Alfredo Urbano , Wei Xue

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

A number of theories, spanning a wide range of mass scales, predict dark matter candidates that have lifetimes much longer than the age of the universe, yet may produce a significant flux of gamma rays in their decays today. We constrain…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Hasan Yuksel , Matthew D. Kistler

An excess of gamma rays at GeV energies has been detected in the Fermi-LAT data. This signal comes from a narrow region around the Galactic Center and has been interpreted as possible evidence for light (30 GeV) dark matter particles.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-01-30 Thomas Lacroix

We derive constraints on dark matter (DM) annihilation cross section and decay lifetime from cross-correlation analyses of the data from Fermi-LAT and weak lensing surveys that cover a wide area of $\sim660$ squared degrees in total. We…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-09-29 Masato Shirasaki , Oscar Macias , Shunsaku Horiuchi , Satoshi Shirai , Naoki Yoshida

In the past decade, gamma-ray observations and radio observations put strong constraints on the parameters of dark matter annihilation. In this article, we suggest another robust way to constrain the parameters of dark matter annihilation.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-08-09 Man Ho Chan

Decaying or annihilating dark matter particles could be detected through gamma-ray emission from the species they decay or annihilate into. This is usually done by modelling the flux from specific dark matter-rich objects such as the Milky…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-12-01 Deaglan J. Bartlett , Andrija Kostić , Harry Desmond , Jens Jasche , Guilhem Lavaux

We construct empirical models of the diffuse gamma-ray background toward the Galactic Center. Including all known point sources and a template of emission associated with interactions of cosmic rays with molecular gas, we show that the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-07-23 Kevork N. Abazajian , Nicolas Canac , Shunsaku Horiuchi , Manoj Kaplinghat

The decay of dark matter is predicted by many theoretical models and can produce observable contributions to the cosmic-ray fluxes. I shortly discuss the interpretation of the positron and electron excess as observed by PAMELA and Fermi LAT…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-30 Christoph Weniger

Dark matter (DM) particle annihilation or decay can produce monochromatic $\gamma$-rays readily distinguishable from astrophysical sources. $\gamma$-ray line limits from 30 GeV to 200 GeV obtained from 11 months of Fermi Large Area Space…

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The PAMELA, Fermi and HESS experiments (PFH) have shown anomalous excesses in the cosmic positron and electron fluxes. A very exciting possibility is that those excesses are due to annihilating dark matter (DM). In this paper we calculate…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-11-02 Gert Huetsi , Andi Hektor , Martti Raidal