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Inverse Compton scattering by relativistic electrons produces a major component of the diffuse emission from the Galaxy. The photon fields involved are the cosmic microwave background and the interstellar radiation field from stars and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-10-04 Elena Orlando , Andrew W. Strong

Decaying dark matter particles could be indirectly detected as an excess over a simple power law in the energy spectrum of the diffuse extragalactic gamma-ray background. Furthermore, since the Earth is not located at the center of the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-20 Alejandro Ibarra , David Tran , Christoph Weniger

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

Dark matter annihilations in the Galactic halo inject relativistic electrons and positrons which in turn generate a synchrotron radiation when interacting with the galactic magnetic field. We calculate the synchrotron flux for various dark…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2012-01-11 N. Fornengo , R. A. Lineros , M. Regis , M. Taoso

Dark matter annihilation in galactic substructure would imprint characteristic angular signatures on the all-sky map of the diffuse gamma-ray background. We study the gamma-ray background anisotropy due to the subhalos and discuss…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-04-21 Shin'ichiro Ando

We present spectra of the inverse-Compton and extragalactic components of the high-energy gamma-radiation based on an analysis of the emission at high galactic latitudes ($\vert$b$\vert$ $\geq$ $30\deg$). We correlate the gamma-ray…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 Andrew Chen , Joseph Dwyer , Philip Kaaret

Motivated by the PAMELA anomaly in the fluxes of cosmic-ray electron and positron, we study the cosmic gamma-ray induced by the inverse Compton (IC) scattering process in unstable dark matter scenario assuming that the anomaly is due to the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-19 Koji Ishiwata , Shigeki Matsumoto , Takeo Moroi

Recent results from experiments like PAMELA have pointed to excesses of e+e- in cosmic rays. If interpreted in terms of Dark Matter annihilations, they imply the existence of an abundant population of e+e- in the galactic halo at large. We…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2009-08-11 Marco Cirelli , Paolo Panci

We study the inverse Compton scattering of solar photons by Galactic cosmic-ray electrons. We show that the gamma-ray emission from this process is substantial with the maximum flux in the direction of the Sun; the angular distribution of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 Igor V. Moskalenko , Troy A. Porter , Seth W. Digel

A number of groups have employed radio observations of the Galactic center to derive stringent constraints on the annihilation cross section of weakly interacting dark matter. In this paper, we show that electron energy losses in this…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-02-09 Ilias Cholis , Dan Hooper , Tim Linden

In the frame of indirect dark matter searches we investigate the flux of high-energy $\gamma$-ray photons produced by annihilation of dark matter in caustics within our Galaxy under the hypothesis that the bulk of dark matter is composed of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Lidia Pieri , Enzo Branchini

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

The present work analyzes various aspects of M31 gamma-ray halo emission in its relation to annihilating dark matter (DM). The main aspect is the predicted effect of asymmetry of the intensity of emission due to inverse Compton scattering…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-08-28 Andrei E. Egorov

We investigate the geometrical effects affecting the production and absorption of gamma-ray radiation emitted in inverse Compton scattering in the synchrotron-self-Compton process. We evaluate the effect of the anisotropy of the radiation…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-08-04 J. Sitarek

Motivated by the PAMELA anomaly in the fluxes of cosmic-ray positron and electron, we study the cosmic gamma-ray induced by the inverse Compton (IC) scattering process in unstable dark matter scenario assuming that the anomaly is due to the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-05-14 Koji Ishiwata , Shigeki Matsumoto , Takeo Moroi

Annihilation of Dark Matter usually produces together with gamma rays comparable amounts of electrons and positrons. The e+e- gyrating in the galactic magnetic field then produce secondary synchrotron radiation which thus provides an…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-08-19 Enrico Borriello , Alessandro Cuoco , Gennaro Miele

Numerical simulations of dark matter collapse and structure formation show that in addition to a large halo surrounding the baryonic component of our galaxy, there also exists a significant number of subhalos that extend hundreds of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-04-22 James M. Cline , Aaron C. Vincent , Wei Xue

Recently, a preliminary spectrum from the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope has been presented for the inner galaxy (-30 < l < 30, -5 < b < 5), as well as the galactic center (-1 < l < 1, -1< b < 1). We consider the implications of these data…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2009-07-29 Ilias Cholis , Gregory Dobler , Douglas P. Finkbeiner , Lisa Goodenough , Tracy R. Slatyer , Neal Weiner

Dark matter (DM) particles decaying in the Galactic halo can inject energetic $e^\pm$ that inverse-Compton scatter (ICS) solar photons into $\gamma$-rays, producing a diffuse and extended halo of emission around the Sun. We present the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-04-02 Maximilian Detering , Shyam Balaji

The Galactic positrons, as observed by their annihilation gamma-ray line at 0.511 MeV, are difficult to account for with astrophysical sources. It has been proposed that they are produced instead by dark matter annihilation or decay in the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-07-09 John F. Beacom , Nicole F. Bell , Gianfranco Bertone