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Utilizing data from the ELVIS and Via Lactea-II simulations, we characterize the local dark matter subhalo population, and use this information to refine the predictions for the gamma-ray fluxes arising from annihilating dark matter in this…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-04-19 Dan Hooper , Samuel J. Witte

Dark matter (DM) subhalos offer critical tests of cosmological models through their abundance and properties, yet most remain undetectable due to their lack of stars. We investigate whether their presence leaves measurable imprints on the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-01-14 Eduardo Vitral , Jorge Peñarrubia , Matthew G. Walker

Weakly interacting massive dark matter (DM) particles are expected to self-annihilate or decay, generating high-energy photons in these processes. This establishes the possibility for indirect detection of DM by \gamma-ray telescopes. For…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-08-17 Moritz Hütten , Gernot Maier

The nature of dark matter is one of the most pressing questions in modern cosmology. Much work has been focussed in the past upon probing potential particle dark matter via gamma-rays resulting from its annihilation or decay. These processs…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-12-09 Geoff Beck

Possible dark matter candidates are reviewed as well as indirect search methods based on annihilation or decay channels of these particles. Neutralino is presently the best particle candidate and its annihilation produces high energy…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-16 José Antonio De Freitas Pacheco , Sébastien Peirani

Several nearby ultra-faint satellites of the Milky Way discovered by the Dark Energy Survey (DES) during the last few years are promising targets for indirect dark matter (DM) searches with very-high-energy (VHE, E$\gtrsim$100 GeV) gamma…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-09-05 Lucia Rinchiuso , Emmanuel Moulin , Céline Armand , Vincent Poireau , H. E. S. S. Collaboration

The VERITAS collaboration has approved long-term observations on several distant, hard-spectrum blazars. We present first results from VERITAS long-term observations of 1ES1218+304, 1ES0229+200, and 1ES0414+009. Gamma-ray observations of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-13 Arun S. Madhavan

Recent Fermi-LAT observations of dwarf spheroidal galaxies in the Milky Way have placed strong limits on the gamma-ray flux from dark matter annihilation. In order to produce the strongest limit on the dark matter annihilation…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-09-28 Linda M. Carpenter , Russell Colburn , Jessica Goodman , Tim Linden

A search for dark matter was conducted by looking for an annual modulation signal due to the Earth's rotation around the Sun using XMASS, a single phase liquid xenon detector. The data used for this analysis was 359.2 live days times 832 kg…

VERITAS (Very Energetic Radiation Imaging Telescope Array System) is one of the most sensitive currently operating arrays of imaging atmospheric Cherenkov telescopes, which detect very high-energy (VHE; E > 100 GeV) gamma rays. VERITAS is…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-16 Gregory T. Richards

Recent experiments have measured the Galactic $\gamma$-ray diffuse emission up to PeV energies, opening a window to study acceleration of Galactic cosmic rays and their propagation up to the cosmic-ray knee. Furthermore, these observations…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-09-12 Manuel Rocamora , Pedro De La Torre Luque , Miguel A. Sánchez-Conde

The Galactic Center region is expected to host the largest density of Dark Matter (DM) particles within the Milky Way. Then a relatively large gamma-ray signal would be expected from the possible DM particles annihilation (or decay). We are…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-14 Vincenzo Vitale , Aldo Morselli

Dark matter particles from the Galactic halo can be gravitationally trapped in the solar core or in external orbits. The enhanced density of dark matter particles either in the solar core or in external orbits can result in the annihilation…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-07-15 M. N. Mazziotta , F. Loparco , D. Serini , A. Cuoco , P. De La Torre Luque , F. Gargano , M. Gustafsson

Dark matter (DM) is one of the major components in the Universe. However, at present its existence is still only inferred through indirect astronomical observations. DM particles can annihilate or decay, producing final-state Standard Model…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-09-19 Francesco Gabriele Saturni , Michele Doro , Aldo Morselli , Gonzalo Rodríguez-Fernández

The next generation of ground-based Imaging Air Cherenkov Telescopes (IACTs) will play an important role in indirect dark matter searches. In this article, we consider two particularly promising candidate sources for dark matter…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-05-27 Torsten Bringmann , Michele Doro , Mattia Fornasa

One of the goals of NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope (formerly GLAST) will be detection of gamma rays from dark-matter annihilation in the Galactic halo. Theoretical arguments suggest that dark matter may be bound into subhalos with…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Shin'ichiro Ando , Marc Kamionkowski , Samuel K. Lee , Savvas M. Koushiappas

The Large High Altitude Air Shower Observatory (LHAASO) is a next-generation observatory for high energy gamma rays and cosmic rays with wide field of view. It will detect gamma rays with high sensitivity in the energy range from 300 GeV to…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-10-16 Dong-Ze He , Xiao-Jun Bi , Su-Jie Lin , Peng-Fei Yin , Xin Zhang

Searches for "dark" subhaloes in gamma-ray point-like source catalogues are among promising strategies for indirect dark matter detection. Such a search is nevertheless affected by uncertainties related, on the one hand, to the modelling of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-05-12 Francesca Calore , Moritz Hütten , Martin Stref

We conduct an indirect dark matter (DM) search in the Galactic Center, focusing on a square region within $\pm 9^{\circ}$ in Galactic longitude and latutide, using 2,865 days of data ($\sim$8 years) from the High-Altitude Water Cherenkov…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-03-09 R. Alfaro , C. Alvarez , A. Andrés , E. Anita-Rangel , M. Araya , J. C. Arteaga-Velázquez , D. Avila Rojas , H. A. Ayala Solares , R. Babu , P. Bangale , A. Bernal , K. S. Caballero-Mora , T. Capistrán , A. Carramiñana , F. Carreón , S. Casanova , A. L. Colmenero-Cesar , U. Cotti , J. Cotzomi , S. Coutiño de León , E. De la Fuente , D. Depaoli , P. Desiati , N. Di Lalla , R. Diaz Hernandez , B. L. Dingus , M. A. DuVernois , J. C. Díaz-Vélez , K. Engel , T. Ergin , C. Espinoza , K. Fang , N. Fraija , S. Fraija , J. A. Garcéa-González , F. Garfias , N. Ghosh , H. Goksu , A. Gonzalez Muñoz , M. M. González , J. A. González , J. A. Goodman , S. Groetsch , J. Gyeong , J. P. Harding , S. Hernández-Cadena , I. Herzog , J. Hinton , D. Huang , F. Hueyotl-Zahuantitla , P. Hüntemeyer , A. Iriarte , S. Kaufmann , D. Kieda , A. Lara , K. Leavitt , W. H. Lee , J. Lee , H. León Vargas , J. T. Linnemann , A. L. Longinotti , G. Luis-Raya , K. Malone , O. Martinez , J. Martínez-Castro , H. Martínez-Huerta , J. A. Matthews , J. McEnery , P. Miranda-Romagnoli , P. E. Mirón-Enriquez , J. A. Montes , J. A. Morales-Soto , E. Moreno , M. Mostafá , M. Najafi , A. Nayerhoda , L. Nellen , M. U. Nisa , R. Noriega-Papaqui , N. Omodei , M. Osorio-Archila , E. Ponce , Y. Pérez Araujo , E. G. Pérez-Pérez , C. D. Rho , A. Rodriguez Parra , D. Rosa-González , M. Roth , H. Salazar , D. Salazar-Gallegos , A. Sandoval , M. Schneider , J. Serna-Franco , A. J. Smith , Y. Son , R. W. Springer , O. Tibolla , K. Tollefson , I. Torres , R. Torres-Escobedo , R. Turner , F. Ureña-Mena , E. Varela , L. Villaseñor , X. Wang , Z. Wang , I. J. Watson , H. Wu , S. Yu , S. Yun-Cárcamo , H. Zhou , C. de León

We present the first search for signatures of brane-world extra-dimensional dark matter (DM) in the very-high-energy gamma-ray band by scrutinizing observations of the dwarf spheroidal galaxy Segue 1 with the Major Atmospheric Gamma Imaging…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-05-18 Tjark Miener , Daniel Nieto , Viviana Gammaldi , Daniel Kerszberg , Javier Rico