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We present a systematic search for potential dark matter subhalos in our Galaxy among the 630 unassociated sources included in the First Fermi-LAT Source Catalog. Assuming a hypothetical dark matter particle that could generate observable…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2011-10-24 D. Nieto , V. Martínez , N. Mirabal , J. A. Barrio , K. Satalecka , S. Pardo , I. Lozano

Photons produced in the annihilations of dark matter particles can be detected by gamma-ray telescopes; this technique of indirect detection serves as a cornerstone of the upcoming assault on the dark matter paradigm. The main obstacle to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-07-08 Eric J. Baxter , Scott Dodelson

We examine the constraints on final state radiation from Weakly Interacting Massive Particle (WIMP) dark matter candidates annihilating into various standard model final states, as imposed by the measurement of the isotropic diffuse…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-07-16 Kevork N. Abazajian , Prateek Agrawal , Zackaria Chacko , Can Kilic

Numerical simulations suggest that dark matter halos surrounding galaxies host numerous small subhalos, which might be detectable by the Fermi-LAT. In this work, we revisit the search for gamma-ray subhalo candidates using the latest…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-12-30 Ji-Gui Cheng , Le Zou

We study the imprint of dark matter (DM) annihilation on the global 21 cm signal from the Dark Ages to Cosmic Reionization. Motivated by recent observations, we focus on three DM candidates: (i) a 10 GeV Bino-like neutralino (ii) a 200 GeV…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-04-16 Marcos Valdés , Carmelo Evoli , Andrei Mesinger , Andrea Ferrara , Naoki Yoshida

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

The detection of non-baryonic dark matter through its gamma-ray annihilation in the centre of our galaxy has been studied. The gamma fluxes according to different models have been simulated and compared to those expected to be observed with…

Recent claims of a line in the Fermi-LAT photon spectrum at 130 GeV are suggestive of dark matter annihilation in the galactic center and other dark matter-dominated regions. If the Fermi feature is indeed due to dark matter annihilation,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-11 Yang Bai , Jessie Shelton

For the first time, the Fermi-LAT measured the angular power spectrum (APS) of anisotropies in the diffuse gamma-ray background. The data is found to be broadly compatible with a model with contributions from the point sources in the 1-year…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 Mattia Fornasa , Jesus Zavala , Miguel A. Sanchez-Conde , Francisco Prada , Mark Vogelsberger

The dwarf spheroidal satellite galaxies of the Milky Way are some of the most dark-matter-dominated objects known. Due to their proximity, high dark matter content, and lack of astrophysical backgrounds, dwarf spheroidal galaxies are widely…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-14 Matthew Wood , Brandon Anderson , Alex Drlica-Wagner , Johann Cohen-Tanugi , Jan Conrad

We consider gamma-ray signals of dark matter annihilation in extragalactic halos in the case where dark matter annihilates from a $p$-wave or $d$-wave state. In these scenarios, signals from extragalactic halos are enhanced relative to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-09-19 Eric J. Baxter , Jason Kumar , Aleczander D. Paul , Jack Runburg

Dark matter dominates the matter content of the Universe, and its properties can be constrained through large-scale structure probes such as the cross-correlation between the unresolved gamma-ray background (UGRB) and weak gravitational…

We present a general methodology for determining the gamma-ray flux from annihilation of dark matter particles in Milky Way satellite galaxies, focusing on two promising satellites as examples: Segue 1 and Draco. We use the SuperBayeS code…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2009-08-08 Gregory D. Martinez , James S. Bullock , Manoj Kaplinghat , Louis E. Strigari , Roberto Trotta

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

Cross-correlating the gamma-ray background with local galaxy catalogs potentially gives stringent constraints on dark matter annihilation. We provide updated theoretical estimates of sensitivities to the annihilation cross section from…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-10-27 Shin'ichiro Ando

An excess in $\gamma$-rays emanating from the galactic centre has recently been observed in the Fermi-LAT data. We investigate the new exciting possibility of fitting the signal spectrum by dark matter annihilating dominantly to a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-05-22 Anibal D. Medina

The Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope discovered two \gamma-ray emitting bubble-shaped structures that extend nearly symmetrically on either side of our Galaxy and appear morphologically connected to the Galactic center. The origin of the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-08-28 Luis Alfredo Anchordoqui , Brian James Vlcek

An excess in gamma-rays from the galactic center observed by the Fermi Large Area Telescope has been proposed as a possible signal of dark matter annihilation. Recently, the Fermi collaboration showed that systematic errors broaden the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-05-07 Arvind Rajaraman , Jordan Smolinsky , Philip Tanedo

Current cosmological models and data suggest the existence of a cold Dark Matter (DM) component, however the nature of DM particles remains unknown. A favored candidate for DM is a Weakly Interacting Massive Particle (WIMP) in the mass…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-13 Benjamin Zitzer

Gamma-ray is a good probe of dark matter (DM) particles in the Universe. We search for the DM annihilation signals in the direction of the Andromeda galaxy (M31) using 7.5 year Fermi-LAT pass 8 data. Similar to Pshirkov et al. (2016), we…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-12-21 Zhengwei Li , Xiaoyuan Huang , Qiang Yuan , Yupeng Xu