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Recently, it has been shown that electrons and positrons from dark matter (DM) annihilations provide an excellent fit to the Fermi, PAMELA, and HESS data. Using this DM model, which requires an enhancement of the annihilation cross section…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2009-11-20 Anders Pinzke , Christoph Pfrommer , Lars Bergstrom

The annihilation of neutralino dark matter in the Galactic Center (GC) may result in radio signals that can be used to detect or constrain the dark matter halo density profile or dark matter particle properties. At the Galactic Center, the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-05-12 Roberto Aloisio , Pasquale Blasi , Angela V. Olinto

We discuss the gamma-ray signal to be expected from dark matter (DM)annihilations at the Galactic Center. To describe the DM distribution in the Galactic halo we base on the Jeans equation for self-gravitating, anisotropic equilibria. In…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-14 A. Lapi , A. Paggi , A. Cavaliere , A. Lionetto , A. Morselli , V. Vitale

The Galactic center $\gamma$-ray excess, detected by the Fermi-LAT, is a very attractive tentative signal from dark matter annihilation. Searching for associated synchrotron emissions can test the dark matter interpretation for this excess.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-05-18 Wen-Qing Guo , Yichao Li , Xiaoyuan Huang , Yin-Zhe Ma , Geoff Beck , Yogesh Chandola , Feng Huang

The possibility of explaining the positron and electron excess recently found by the PAMELA and ATIC collaborations in terms of dark matter (DM) annihilation has attracted considerable attention. Models surviving bounds from, e.g,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-04-15 Lars Bergstrom , Gianfranco Bertone , Torsten Bringmann , Joakim Edsjo , Marco Taoso

The inner degrees of the Galactic center contain a large population of filamentary structures observed at radio frequencies. These so-called non-thermal radio filaments (NRFs) trace magnetic field lines and have attracted significant…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-28 Tim Linden , Dan Hooper , Farhad Yusef-Zadeh

Recently the study of anomalous gamma-ray emission in the regions surrounding the galactic center has drawn a lot of attention as it points out that the excess of $\sim 1-3$ GeV gamma-ray in the low latitude is consistent with the emission…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-04-09 Tanushree Basak , Tanmoy Mondal

We investigate the production of electrons and positrons in the Milky Way within the context of dark matter annihilation. Upper limits on the relevant cross-section are obtained by combining observational data at different wavelengths (from…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-05-06 Maneenate Wechakama , Yago Ascasibar

From astronomical observations, we know that dark matter exists and makes up $\sim$25\% of our Universe. Recently the study of anomalous gamma-ray emission in the regions surrounding the galactic center has drawn a lot of attention. It has…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-07-08 Tanmoy Mondal , Tanushree Basak

Motivated by the gamma-ray excess observed from the region surrounding the Galactic Center, we explore particle dark matter models that could potentially account for the spectrum and normalization of this signal. Taking a model-independent…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-04 Asher Berlin , Dan Hooper , Samuel D. McDermott

The direct measurements of the cosmic electron-positron spectrum around 1 TeV made by DAMPE have induced many theoretical speculations about possible excesses in the data above the standard astrophysical predictions that might have the dark…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-07-01 Konstantin Belotsky , Airat Kamaletdinov , Maxim Laletin , Maxim Solovyov

We have performed an analysis of the diffuse gamma-ray emission with the Fermi Large Area Telescope in the Milky Way Halo region searching for a signal from dark matter annihilation or decay. In the absence of a robust dark matter signal,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-01-15 LAT collaboration , M. Ackermann , M. Ajello , W. B. Atwood , L. Baldini , G. Barbiellini , D. Bastieri , K. Bechtol , R. Bellazzini , R. D. Blandford , E. D. Bloom , E. Bonamente , A. W. Borgland , E. Bottacini , T. J. Brandt , J. Bregeon , M. Brigida , P. Bruel , R. Buehler , S. Buson , G. A. Caliandro , R. A. Cameron , P. A. Caraveo , J. M. Casandjian , C. Cecchi , E. Charles , A. Chekhtman , J. Chiang , S. Ciprini , R. Claus , J. Cohen-Tanugi , J. Conrad , A. Cuoco , S. Cutini , F. D'Ammando , A. de Angelis , F. de Palma , C. D. Dermer , E. do Couto e Silva , P. S. Drell , A. Drlica-Wagner , L. Falletti , C. Favuzzi , S. J. Fegan , W. B. Focke , Y. Fukazawa , S. Funk , P. Fusco , F. Gargano , D. Gasparrini , S. Germani , N. Giglietto , F. Giordano , M. Giroletti , T. Glanzman , G. Godfrey , I. A. Grenier , S. Guiriec , M. Gustafsson , D. Hadasch , M. Hayashida , D. Horan , R. E. Hughes , M. S. Jackson , T. Jogler , G. Jóhannesson , A. S. Johnson , T. Kamae , J. Knödlseder , M. Kuss , J. Lande , L. Latronico , A. M. Lionetto , M. Llena Garde , F. Longo , F. Loparco , B. Lott , M. N. Lovellette , P. Lubrano , M. N. Mazziotta , J. E. McEnery , J. Mehault , P. F. Michelson , W. Mitthumsiri , T. Mizuno , A. A. Moiseev , C. Monte , M. E. Monzani , A. Morselli , I. V. Moskalenko , S. Murgia , M. Naumann-Godo , J. P. Norris , E. Nuss , T. Ohsugi , M. Orienti , E. Orlando , J. F. Ormes , D. Paneque , J. H. Panetta , M. Pesce-Rollins , M. Pierbattista , F. Piron , G. Pivato , H. Poon , S. Rainò , R. Rando , M. Razzano , S. Razzaque , A. Reimer , O. Reimer , C. Romoli , C. Sbarra , J. D. Scargle , C. Sgrò , E. J. Siskind , G. Spandre , P. Spinelli , Łukasz Stawarz , A. W. Strong , D. J. Suson , H. Tajima , H. Takahashi , T. Tanaka , J. G. Thayer , J. B. Thayer , L. Tibaldo , M. Tinivella , G. Tosti , E. Troja , T. L. Usher , J. Vandenbroucke , V. Vasileiou , G. Vianello , V. Vitale , A. P. Waite , E. Wallace , K. S. Wood , M. Wood , Z. Yang , G. Zaharijas , S. Zimmer

Excess microwave emission observed in the inner Galaxy (inner ~1 kpc) is consistent with synchrotron emission from highly relativistic electron-positron pairs produced by dark matter particle annihilation. More conventional sources for this…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-04-08 Douglas P. Finkbeiner

We evaluate dark matter (DM) limits from cosmic-ray antiproton observations using the recent precise AMS-02 measurements. We properly take into account cosmic-ray propagation uncertainties fitting at the same time DM and propagation…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-05-15 Alessandro Cuoco , Michael Krämer , Michael Korsmeier

Continuum low-frequency radio observations of the Galactic Center reveal the presence of two prominent radio sources, Sgr A East and its surrounding Halo, containing non-thermal particle distributions with power-law indices around 2.5-3.3…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Fulvio Melia , Farhad Yusef-Zadeh , Marco Fatuzzo

We revisit the upper bound on the annihilation cross-section, $\langle\sigma v\rangle$ of a stable dark matter (DM) of mass $5\times10^2-10^{14}$ GeV by considering five different channels: $W^+W^-$, $b\bar{b}$, $\mu^+\mu^-$,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-10-15 Nagisa Hiroshima , Kazunori Kohri , Partha Kumar Paul , Narendra Sahu

Recent studies of radio data put strong constraints on annihilation cross section for dark matter. In this article, we provide the first analysis of using M33 radio data in constraining annihilating dark matter. The resulting constraints of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-10-24 Man Ho Chan

We used radio observations of the neighbour galaxy M31 in order to put constraints on dark matter particle mass and annihilation cross section. Dark matter annihilation in M31 halo produces highly energetic leptons, which emit synchrotron…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 A. E. Egorov , E. Pierpaoli

If dark matter decays into electrons and positrons, it can affect Galactic radio emissions and the local cosmic ray fluxes. We propose a new, more general analysis of constraints on dark matter. The constraints can be obtained for any…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2009-09-28 Le Zhang , Javier Redondo , Guenter Sigl

The annihilation of light dark matter was recently advocated as a possible explanation of the large positron injection rate at the Galactic center deduced from observations by the SPI spectrometer aboard INTEGRAL. The modelling of internal…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 P. Sizun , M. Casse , S. Schanne