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Recent advances in cosmic-ray detectors have provided exceptional sensitivities of dark matter with high angular resolution. Motivated by this, we present a comprehensive study of cosmic-ray flux from dark matter decay in dwarf spheroidal…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-05-24 Wen Yin , Kohei Hayashi

In my contribution I review the status of indirect detection of dark matter with gamma-rays, including results of the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope as well as Imaging Air Cherenkov Telescopes (IACT), like H.E.S.S., MAGIC and VERITAS. I…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-03-30 Jan Conrad

The Fermi-LAT observation of a gamma-ray excess from the galactic-centre, as well as the PAMELA, AMS, and AMS-2 anti-particle excesses, and the recent claim of a Fermi-LAT excess in the Reticulum-2 dwarf galaxy have been put forward as…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-11-16 G. Beck , S. Colafrancesco

We use recently released data on the positron-to-electron ratio in cosmic rays from the AMS-02 experiment to constrain dark matter annihilation in the Milky Way. Due to the yet unexplained positron excess, limits are generally weaker than…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-10-31 Joachim Kopp

If sub-GeV Dark matter(DM) annihilates to the charged particles such as $e^+ e^-$, $\mu^+ \mu^-$, or $\pi^+ \pi^-$, it generates an additional source of electrons and positrons in the cosmic ray (CR) population within our Milky Way. During…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-12-10 Guansen Wang , Bing-Yu Su , Lei Zu , Lei Feng

In the cosmological paradigm, cold dark matter (DM) dominates the mass content of the Universe and is present at every scale. Candidates for DM include many extensions of the standard model, such as weakly interacting massive particles…

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

Although most proposed dark matter candidates are stable, in order for dark matter to be present today, the only requirement is that its lifetime is longer than the age of the Universe, t_U ~ 4 10^17 s. Moreover, the dark matter particle…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-12-13 Sergio Palomares-Ruiz , Jennifer M. Siegal-Gaskins

In this work, we revisit the all-sky Galactic diffuse $\gamma$-ray emission taking into account the new measurements of cosmic ray electron/positron spectrum by PAMELA, ATIC and Fermi, which show excesses of cosmic electrons/positrons…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-11-20 Juan Zhang , Qiang Yuan , Xiao-Jun Bi

Detecting the dark matter annihilation signal from Galactic substructure, or subhalos, is an important challenge for high-energy gamma-ray experiments. In this paper we discuss detection prospects by combining two different aspects of the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2010-12-24 Eric J. Baxter , Scott Dodelson , Savvas M. Koushiappas , Louis E. Strigari

We report on the observations of 14 dwarf spheroidal galaxies with the Fermi Gamma-Ray Space Telescope taken during the first 11 months of survey mode operations. The Fermi telescope provides a new opportunity to test particle dark matter…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-17 LAT Collaboration , A. A. Abdo , M. Ackermann , M. Ajello , W. B. Atwood , L. Baldini , J. Ballet , G. Barbiellini , D. Bastieri , K. Bechtol , R. Bellazzini , B. Berenji , E. D. Bloom , E. Bonamente , A. W. Borgland , J. Bregeon , A. Brez , M. Brigida , P. Bruel , T. H. Burnett , S. Buson , G. A. Caliandro , R. A. Cameron , P. A. Caraveo , J. M. Casandjian , C. Cecchi , A. Chekhtman , C. C. Cheung , J. Chiang , S. Ciprini , R. Claus , J. Cohen-Tanugi , J. Conrad , A. de Angelis , F. de Palma , S. W. Digel , E. do Couto e Silva , P. S. Drell , A. Drlica-Wagner , R. Dubois , D. Dumora , C. Farnier , C. Favuzzi , S. J. Fegan , W. B. Focke , P. Fortin , M. Frailis , Y. Fukazawa , P. Fusco , F. Gargano , N. Gehrels , S. Germani , B. Giebels , N. Giglietto , F. Giordano , T. Glanzman , G. Godfrey , I. A. Grenier , J. E. Grove , L. Guillemot , S. Guiriec , M. Gustafsson , A. K. Harding , E. Hays , D. Horan , R. E. Hughes , M. S. Jackson , T. E. Jeltema , G. Johannesson , A. S. Johnson , R. P. Johnson , W. N. Johnson , T. Kamae , H. Katagiri , J. Kataoka , M. Kerr , J. Knodlseder , M. Kuss , J. Lande , L. Latronico , M. Lemoine-Goumard , F. Longo , F. Loparco , B. Lott , M. N. Lovellette , P. Lubrano , G. M. Madejski , A. Makeev , M. N. Mazziotta , J. E. McEnery , C. Meurer , P. F. Michelson , W. Mitthumsiri , T. Mizuno , A. A. Moiseev , C. Monte , M. E. Monzani , E. Moretti , A. Morselli , I. V. Moskalenko , S. Murgia , P. L. Nolan , J. P. Norris , E. Nuss , T. Ohsugi , N. Omodei , E. Orlando , J. F. Ormes , D. Paneque , J. H. Panetta , D. Parent , V. Pelassa , M. Pepe , M. Pesce-Rollins , F. Piron , T. A. Porter , S. Profumo , S. Raino , R. Rando , M. Razzano , A. Reimer , O. Reimer , T. Reposeur , S. Ritz , A. Y. Rodriguez , M. Roth , H. F. -W. Sadrozinski , A. Sander , P. M. Saz Parkinson , J. D. Scargle , T. L. Schalk , A. Sellerholm , C. Sgro , E. J. Siskind , D. A. Smith , P. D. Smith , G. Spandre , P. Spinelli , M. S. Strickman , D. J. Suson , H. Takahashi , T. Takahashi , T. Tanaka , J. B. Thayer , J. G. Thayer , D. J. Thompson , L. Tibaldo , D. F. Torres , A. Tramacere , Y. Uchiyama , T. L. Usher , V. Vasileiou , N. Vilchez , V. Vitale , A. P. Waite , P. Wang , B. L. Winer , K. S. Wood , T. Ylinen , M. Ziegler , James S. Bullock , Manoj Kaplinghat , Gregory D. Martinez

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

AMS-02 provided the unprecedented statistics in the measurement of the positron fraction from cosmic rays. That may offer a unique opportunity to distinguish the positron spectrum coming from various dark matter (DM) annihilation channels,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-02-17 Yu-Heng Chen , Kingman Cheung , Po-Yan Tseng

We reconsider Sommerfeld-enhanced annihilation of dark matter (DM) into leptons to explain PAMELA and Fermi electron and positron observations, in light of possible new effects from substructure. There is strong tension between getting a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-12-23 Aaron C Vincent , Wei Xue , James M Cline

Observations of cosmic rays are a sensitive probe of dark matter annihilation in our Galaxy. In this article we present an analysis of the AMS-02 antiproton data, reducing cosmic-ray propagation uncertainties by fitting at the same time…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-04-23 Alessandro Cuoco , Jan Heisig , Michael Korsmeier , Michael Krämer

Dark matter (DM) annihilations have been widely studied as a possible explanation of excess gamma rays from the galactic center seen by Fermi/LAT. However most such models are in conflict with constraints from dwarf spheroidals. Motivated…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-07-22 Jeremie Choquette , James M. Cline , Jonathan M. Cornell

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 excess above 1 GeV in the energy spectrum of the diffuse Galactic gamma radiation, measured with the EGRET experiment, can be interpreted as the annihilation of Dark Matter (DM) particles. The DM is distributed in a halo around the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-10-29 Markus Weber

We implemented a novel technique to perform the collective spectral analysis of sets of multiple gamma-ray point sources using the data collected by the Large Area Telescope onboard the Fermi satellite. The energy spectra of the sources are…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2012-08-02 M. N. Mazziotta , F. Loparco , F. de Palma , N. Giglietto

Atmospheric Cerenkov Telescopes, including HESS and MAGIC, have detected a spectrum of gamma-rays from the galactic center region which extends from $\sim$200 GeV or lower, to at least $\sim$10 TeV. Although the source of this radiation is…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Gabrijela Zaharijas , Dan Hooper

Using 14 years of Fermi-LAT data and 10 years of H.E.S.S. observations in the direction of the galactic center, we derive limits on gamma-ray lines originated from dark matter annihilations for fermionic and scalar fields. We describe the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-03-10 Lucia Angel , Guillermo Gambini , Leticia Guedes , Farinaldo S. Queiroz , Vitor de Souza