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We study the annihilating dark matter contribution to the extra-galactic diffuse gamma-ray background spectrum, motivated by the recent observations of cosmic-ray positron/electron anomalies. The observed diffuse gamma-ray flux provides…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2009-09-02 Masahiro Kawasaki , Kazunori Kohri , Kazunori Nakayama

We present a study of the ability of the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope to detect dark-matter annihilation signals from the Galactic subhalos predicted by the Via Lactea II N-body simulation. We implement an improved formalism for…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-11-21 Brandon Anderson , Michael Kuhlen , Robert Johnson , Piero Madau , Juerg Diemand

The Fermi-LAT collaboration has studied the gamma-ray emission from a stacked population of dwarf spheroidal galaxies and used this information to set constraints on the dark matter annihilation cross section. Interestingly, their analysis…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-03-11 Eric Carlson , Dan Hooper , Tim Linden

The Milky Way's dark matter halo is thought to contain large numbers of smaller subhalos. These objects can contain very high densities of dark matter, and produce potentially observable fluxes of gamma rays. In this article, we study the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-20 Matthew R. Buckley , Dan Hooper

We study diffuse gamma-ray emission at intermediate Galactic latitudes measured by the Fermi Large Area Telescope with the aim of searching for a signal from dark matter annihilation or decay. In the absence of a robust dark matter signal,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-12 Gabrijela Zaharijas , Jan Conrad , Alessandro Cuoco , Zhaoyu Yang

PAMELA's observation that the cosmic ray positron fraction increases rapidly with energy implies the presence of primary sources of energetic electron-positron pairs. Of particular interest is the possibility that dark matter annihilations…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-20 Dan Hooper , Kathryn M. Zurek

Gamma rays and microwave observations of the Galactic Center and surrounding areas indicate the presence of anomalous emission, whose origin remains ambiguous. The possibility of dark matter (DM) annihilation explaining both signals through…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-04-28 Andrey E. Egorov , Jennifer M. Gaskins , Elena Pierpaoli , Davide Pietrobon

We present a method to produce mock galaxy catalogues with efficient perturbation theory schemes, which match the number density, power spectra and bispectra in real and in redshift space from N-body simulations. The essential contribution…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-22 Francisco-Shu Kitaura , Héctor Gil-Marín , Claudia Scoccola , Chia-Hsun Chuang , Volker Müller , Gustavo Yepes , Francisco Prada

We analyze publicly available Fermi-LAT high-energy gamma-ray data and confirm the existence of clear spectral feature peaked at E=130GeV. Scanning over the Galaxy we identify several disconnected regions where the observed excess…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2012-10-31 Elmo Tempel , Andi Hektor , Martti Raidal

Clear methods to differentiate between decaying and annihilating dark matter (DM) scenarios are still by and large unavailable. In this note, we study the potential astrophysical signatures of a new class of hidden sector decaying DM…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-08-11 Joshua T. Ruderman , Tomer Volansky

We study evolution of dark matter substructures, especially how they lose the mass and change density profile after they fall in gravitational potential of larger host halos. We develop an analytical prescription that models the subhalo…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-06-12 Nagisa Hiroshima , Shin'ichiro Ando , Tomoaki Ishiyama

According to the cold dark matter scenario, a large number of dark subhalos should be located within the halo of each Milky-way sized galaxy. One promising possibility for detecting such subhalos is to try to observe their gravitational…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-02-11 Kaj Wiik , Erik Zackrisson , Teresa Riehm

The perspective of the detectability of Galactic dark matter subhaloes on the Fermi satellite is investigated in this work. Under the assumptions that dark matter annihilation accounts for the "GeV excess" of the Galactic diffuse…

Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-18 Qiang Yuan , Xiao-Jun Bi , Juan Zhang

About a third of the $\gamma$-ray sources detected by the Fermi Large Area Telescope (Fermi-LAT) remain unidentified, and some of these could be exotic objects such as dark matter subhalos. We present a search for these sources using…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-08-02 Anja Butter , Michael Krämer , Silvia Manconi , Kathrin Nippel

We conduct a comprehensive analysis of potential annihilation processes of light dark matter (DM) in minimal Higgs portal models near supermassive black hole (Sgr A$^{\star}$) in the Galactic Center, considering interactions between DM…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-01-14 Chih-Ting Lu , Xiao-Yi Luo , Zi-Qing Xia

Dwarf spheroidal galaxies compose one of the most dark matter dominated classes of objects, making them a set of targets to search for signals of dark matter annihilation. Recent developments in gamma-ray astronomy, most importantly the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2012-11-14 Ilias Cholis , Paolo Salucci

We study the capabilities of the Fermi-LAT instrument for identifying particle Dark Matter properties as mass, annihilation cross section and annihilation channels, with gamma-ray observations from the Galactic Center. For the potential…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2010-12-02 Nicolas Bernal

The hierarchical scenario of structure formation, in the frame of the $\Lambda$-CDM cosmology, predicts the existence of dark matter (DM) sub-halos down to very small scales, of which the minimal size depends on the microscopic properties…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-12-05 Julien Lavalle

Gamma-ray searches for dark matter annihilation and decay in dwarf galaxies rely on an understanding of the dark matter density profiles of these systems. Conversely, uncertainties in these density profiles propagate into the derived…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-12 Alex Geringer-Sameth , Savvas M. Koushiappas , Matthew Walker

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