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The nature of dark matter is increasingly constrained by cosmological data. In this paper, we examine the implications of the Cosmic Microwave Background anisotropy limits on the density of cold dark matter under different theoretical…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 A. Melchiorri , J. Silk

We examine the possibility that dark matter consists of charged massive particles (CHAMPs) in view of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) anisotropies. The evolution of cosmological perturbations of CHAMP with other components is followed…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-01-11 Ayuki Kamada , Kazunori Kohri , Tomo Takahashi , Naoki Yoshida

It has recently been argued that the PAMELA, ATIC and PPB-BETS data showing an anomalous excess of high-energy cosmic ray positrons and electrons might be explained by dark matter annihilating in the Galactic halo with a cross section…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-05 Francis-Yan Cyr-Racine , Stefano Profumo , Kris Sigurdson

The extragalactic $\gamma$-ray background and its spatial anisotropy could potentially contain a signature of dark matter (DM) annihilation or particle decay. Astrophysical foregrounds, such as blazars and star-forming galaxies (SFGs),…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-02-22 Chang Feng , Asantha Cooray , Brian Keating

The WMAP experiment has revealed an excess of microwave emission from the region around the center of our Galaxy. It has been suggested that this signal, known as the ``WMAP Haze'', could be synchrotron emission from relativistic electrons…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Dan Hooper , Douglas P. Finkbeiner , Gregory Dobler

We re-formulate cosmological perturbations in the decaying cold dark matter model, and calculate cosmological microwave background (CMB) anisotropies. By comparing our theoretical predictions with recent observational data from the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Kiyotomo Ichiki , Masamune Oguri , Keitaro Takahashi

We show that the impact of energy injection by dark matter annihilation on the cosmic microwave background power spectra can be apprehended via a residual likelihood map. By resorting to convolutional neural networks that can fully discover…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-06-23 Wei-Chih Huang , Jui-Lin Kuo , Yue-Lin Sming Tsai

Annihilation of dark matter particles in cosmological halos (including a halo of the Milky Way) contributes to the diffuse gamma-ray background (DGRB). As this contribution will appear anisotropic in the sky, one can use the angular power…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-07-31 Shin'ichiro Ando , Eiichiro Komatsu

In a mixed dark matter scenario in which primordial black holes (PBHs) would co-exist with thermally produced self-annihilating particles, one expects the former to be surrounded by extremely dense halos made of the latter, built up during…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-21 Julien Lavalle , Vivian Poulin , Pierre Salati

We consider particle decays during the cosmic dark ages with two aims: (1) to explain the high optical depth reported by WMAP, and (2) to provide new constraints to the parameter space for decaying particles. We delineate the decay channels…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-06-21 Xuelei Chen , Marc Kamionkowski

The presence of light thermally coupled dark matter affects early expansion history and production of light elements during the Big Bang Nucleosynthesis. Specifically, dark matter that annihilates into Standard Model particles can modify…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-07-07 Rui An , Vera Gluscevic , Erminia Calabrese , J. Colin Hill

In this work we study the constraints on dark matter (DM) annihilation/decay from the Fermi-LAT Isotropic Gamma-Ray Background (IGRB) observation. We consider the contributions from both extragalactic and galactic DM components. For DM…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-04-26 Wei Liu , Xiao-Jun Bi , Su-Jie Lin , Peng-Fei Yin

Decaying cold dark matter (CDM) has been considered as a mechanism to tackle the tensions in the Hubble expansion rate and the clustering of matter. However, polarization measurements of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) severely…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-05-12 Luis A. Anchordoqui , Vernon Barger , Danny Marfatia , Jorge F. Soriano

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

The energy injected from dark matter annihilation and decay processes potentially raises the ionisation of the intergalactic medium and leaves visible footprints on the anisotropy maps of the cosmic microwave background (CMB). Galactic…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-01-03 Zi-Xuan Zhang , Yi-Ming Wang , Junsong Cang , Zirui Zhang , Yang Liu , Si-Yu Li , Yu Gao , Hong Li

We consider the dark matter (DM) scenarios consisting of the mixture of WIMPs and PBHs and study how much fraction of the total DM can be PBHs. In such scenarios, PBHs can accrete the WIMPs and consequently enhance the heating and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-06-23 Hiroyuki Tashiro , Kenji Kadota

Dark matter (DM) coupled to light mediators has been invoked to resolve the putative discrepancies between collisionless cold DM and galactic structure observations. However, $\gamma$-ray searches and the CMB strongly constrain such…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-06-27 Iason Baldes , Marco Cirelli , Paolo Panci , Kalliopi Petraki , Filippo Sala , Marco Taoso

Dark matter (DM) annihilation during hydrogen recombination (z ~ 1000) will alter the recombination history of the Universe, and affect the observed CMB temperature and polarization fluctuations. Unlike other astrophysical probes of DM,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Nikhil Padmanabhan , Douglas P. Finkbeiner

The lecture is devoted to the comparison of a few models of cosmic recombination kinetics with recent CMB anisotropy data and to corresponding predictions for the upcoming PLANCK mission. The influence of additional sources of ionized…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Pavel D. Naselsky

Annihilation of light dark matter of $m_{\rm DM} \approx (10-40)$ GeV into the Standard Model fermions has been suggested as a possible origin of the gamma-ray excess at GeV energies in the Fermi-LAT data. In this paper, we examine possible…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-19 Kyoungchul Kong , Jong-Chul Park