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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

Despite the influx of unprecedented-quality data from the Fermi Gamma-Ray Space Telescope that have been collected over nine years of operation, the contribution of normal star-forming galaxies to the extragalactic gamma-ray background…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-12-19 I. Komis , V. Pavlidou , A. Zezas

The spectrum of an isotropic extragalactic $\gamma$-ray background (EGB) has been measured by the Fermi-LAT telescope at high latitudes. Two new models for the EGB are derived from the subtraction of unresolved point sources and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-03 F. Donato , F. Calore , V. De Romeri

Upcoming $\gamma$-ray satellites will search for Dark Matter annihilations in Milky Way substructures (or 'clumps'). The prospects for detecting these objects strongly depend on the assumptions made on the distribution of Dark Matter in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 L. Pieri , G. Bertone , E Branchini

The self-annihilation of dark matter particles with mass in the MeV range can produce gamma rays via prompt or secondary radiation. The annihilation rate for such light dark matter particles is however tightly constrained by cosmic…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-10-04 Alma X. Gonzalez-Morales , Stefano Profumo , Javier Reynoso-Córdova

Indications for a gamma-ray line(s) signal towards the Galactic center at an energy of about 130 GeV have been recently presented. While dark matter annihilations are a viable candidate for this signal, it is generally expected that such a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2012-11-15 Ilias Cholis , Maryam Tavakoli , Piero Ullio

The indirect detection of dark matter requires that dark matter annihilation products be discriminated from conventional astrophysical backgrounds. Here, we re-analyze GeV-band gamma-ray observations of the prominent Milky Way dwarf…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-05 A. N. Baushev , S. Federici , M. Pohl

We study the origin of the extragalactic diffuse gamma-ray background using the data from the Fermi telescope. To estimate the background level, we count photons at high Galactic latitudes |b|>60 degrees. Subtracting photons associated to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 A. Neronov , D. V. Semikoz

The public data from the EGRET space telescope on diffuse Galactic gamma rays in the energy range from 0.1 to 10 GeV are reanalyzed with the purpose of searching for signals of Dark Matter annihilation (DMA). The analysis confirms the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 W. de Boer , C. Sander , V. Zhukov , A. V. Gladyshev , D. I. Kazakov

There is mounting evidence that a self-consistent model for particle cold dark matter has to take into consideration spatial inhomogeneities on sub-galactic scales seen, for instance, in high-resolution N-body simulations of structure…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Lars Bergstrom , Joakim Edsjo , Christofer Gunnarsson

The bulk of the extragalactic background between 10 keV and 10 GeV is likely to be explained by the emission of Seyfert galaxies, type Ia supernovae, and blazars. However, as revealed by the INTEGRAL satellite, the bulge of our galaxy is an…

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

If the present dark matter in the Universe annihilates into Standard Model particles, it must contribute to the gamma ray fluxes detected on the Earth. The magnitude of such contribution depends on the particular dark matter candidate, but…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-09-26 Álvaro de la Cruz-Dombriz , Viviana Gammaldi

The propagation of $\gamma$ rays over very large distances provides new insights on the intergalactic medium and on fundamental physics. On their path to the Earth, $\gamma$ rays can annihilate with diffuse infrared or optical photons of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-07-20 Dieter Horns , Agnieszka Jacholkowska

The origin of the diffuse extragalactic, high-energy gamma-ray background (EGRB) filling the Universe remains unknown. The spectrum of this extragalactic radiation, as measured by the EGRET on-board CGRO, is well-fit by a power law across…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Caleb A. Scharf , Reshmi Mukherjee

The Extragalactic Background Light (EBL) includes photons with wavelengths from ultraviolet to infrared, which are effective at attenuating gamma rays with energy above ~10 GeV during propagation from sources at cosmological distances. This…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-18 The Fermi LAT , the GBM Collaboration , : , A. A. Abdo

Dark matter annihilating in our Galaxy's halo and elsewhere in the universe is expected to generate a diffuse flux of gamma rays, potentially observable with next generation satellite-based experiments, such as GLAST. In this article, we…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Dan Hooper , Pasquale D. Serpico

Origin of extragalactic gamma-ray background (EGRB) is still a matter of debate. EGRB can either have truly diffuse or unresolved discrete point sources origin. Majority of the Fermi and EGRET detected identified sources are blazar. So,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2011-12-06 Debbijoy Bhattacharya , M. Errando , R. Mukherjee , M. Boettcher , P. Sreekumar , R. Misra , P. Coppi

Indirect searches for the cosmological dark matter have become ever more competitive during the past years. Here, we report the first full calculation of leading electroweak corrections to the annihilation rate of supersymmetric neutralino…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-02-20 Torsten Bringmann , Francesca Calore

In this thorough study we focus on the indirect detection of Dark Matter (DM) through the confrontation of unexplained galactic and extragalactic $\gamma$-ray signatures for a low mass DM model. For this, we consider a simple Higgs-portal…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-08-27 Kamakshya Prasad Modak , Debasish Majumdar