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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 make a detailed analysis of the indirect diffuse gamma-ray signals from dark matter annihilation in the Galaxy. We include the prompt emission, as well as the emission from inverse Compton scattering whenever the annihilation products…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2012-11-14 Steve Blanchet , Julien Lavalle

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

It has been proposed that during the formation of the first generation stars there might be a "dark star" phase in which the power of the star comes from dark matter annihilation. The adiabatic contraction process to form the dark star…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-04-20 Qiang Yuan , Bin Yue , Bing Zhang , Xuelei Chen

We present a new method to interpret the $\gamma$-ray data of our inner Galaxy as measured by the Fermi Large Area Telescope (Fermi LAT). We train and test convolutional neural networks with simulated Fermi-LAT images based on models tuned…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-05-29 Sascha Caron , Germán A. Gómez-Vargas , Luc Hendriks , Roberto Ruiz de Austri

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

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

Using 43 months of public gamma-ray data from the Fermi Large Area Telescope, we find in regions close to the Galactic center at energies of 130 GeV a 4.6 sigma excess that is not inconsistent with a gamma-ray line from dark matter…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-11 Christoph Weniger

If dark matter is composed of neutralinos, the gamma-ray radiation produced in their annihilation offers an attractive possibility for dark matter detection. This process may contribute significantly to the extragalactic gamma-ray…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-01-20 Jesus Zavala , Volker Springel , Michael Boylan-Kolchin

We derive robust model-independent bounds on DM annihilations and decays from the first year of FERMI gamma-ray observations of the whole sky. These bounds only have a mild dependence on the DM density profile and allow the following DM…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-20 Michele Papucci , Alessandro Strumia

We study the gamma rays observed by the Fermi Gamma Ray Space Telescope from the direction of the Galactic Center and find that their angular distribution and energy spectrum are well described by a dark matter annihilation scenario. In…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-11 Lisa Goodenough , Dan Hooper

The quest for Dark Matter signals in the gamma-ray sky is one of the most intriguing and exciting challenges in astrophysics. In this paper we perform the analysis of the energy spectrum of the \textit{Fermi bubbles} at different latitudes,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-12-31 Wei-Chih Huang , Alfredo Urbano , Wei Xue

We study the flux and the angular power spectrum of gamma-rays produced by Dark Matter (DM) annihilations in the Milky Way (MW) and in extra-galactic halos. The annihilation signal receives contributions from: a) the smooth MW halo, b)…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2009-08-11 Mattia Fornasa , Lidia Pieri , Gianfranco Bertone , Enzo Branchini

Monochromatic photons could be produced in the annihilation or decay of dark matter particles. At high energies, the search for such line features in the cosmic gamma-ray spectrum is essentially background free because plausible…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-05-27 Gilles Vertongen , Christoph Weniger

We present all-sky simulated Fermi maps of gamma-rays from dark matter decay and annihilation in the Local Universe. The dark matter distribution is obtained from a constrained cosmological simulation of the neighboring large-scale…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-19 A. J. Cuesta , T. E. Jeltema , F. Zandanel , S. Profumo , F. Prada , G. Yepes , A. Klypin , Y. Hoffman , S. Gottloeber , J. Primack , M. A. Sanchez-Conde , C. Pfrommer

Dark matter annihilations taking place in nearby subhalos could appear as gamma-ray sources without detectable counterparts at other wavelengths. In this study, we consider the collection of unassociated gamma-ray sources reported by the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-12-23 Bridget Bertoni , Dan Hooper , Tim Linden

We search for evidence of dark matter (DM) annihilation in the isotropic gamma-ray background (IGRB) measured with 50 months of Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) observations. An improved theoretical description of the cosmological DM…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-11-20 The Fermi LAT Collaboration , M. Ackermann , M. Ajello , A. Albert , L. Baldini , G. Barbiellini , D. Bastieri , K. Bechtol , R. Bellazzini , E. Bissaldi , E. D. Bloom , R. Bonino , J. Bregeon , P. Bruel , R. Buehler , S. Buson , G. A. Caliandro , R. A. Cameron , M. Caragiulo , P. A. Caraveo , C. Cecchi , E. Charles , A. Chekhtman , J. Chiang , G. Chiaro , S. Ciprini , R. Claus , J. Cohen-Tanugi , J. Conrad , A. Cuoco , S. Cutini , F. D'Ammando , A. de Angelis , F. de Palma , C. D. Dermer , S. W. Digel , P. S. Drell , A. Drlica-Wagner , C. Favuzzi , E. C. Ferrara , A. Franckowiak , Y. Fukazawa , S. Funk , P. Fusco , F. Gargano , D. Gasparrini , N. Giglietto , F. Giordano , M. Giroletti , G. Godfrey , S. Guiriec , M. Gustafsson , J. W. Hewitt , X. Hou , T. Kamae , M. Kuss , S. Larsson , L. Latronico , F. Longo , F. Loparco , M. N. Lovellette , P. Lubrano , D. Malyshev , F. Massaro , M. Mayer , M. N. Mazziotta , P. F. Michelson , W. Mitthumsiri , T. Mizuno , M. E. Monzani , A. Morselli , I. V. Moskalenko , S. Murgia , M. Negro , R. Nemmen , E. Nuss , T. Ohsugi , M. Orienti , E. Orlando , J. F. Ormes , D. Paneque , J. S. Perkins , M. Pesce-Rollins , F. Piron , G. Pivato , S. Raino , R. Rando , M. Razzano , A. Reimer , O. Reimer , M. Sanchez-Conde , A. Schulz , C. Sgro , E. J. Siskind , G. Spandre , P. Spinelli , A. W. Strong , D. J. Suson , H. Tajima , H. Takahashi , J. G. Thayer , J. B. Thayer , L. Tibaldo , M. Tinivella , D. F. Torres , E. Troja , Y. Uchiyama , G. Vianello , M. Werner , B. L. Winer , K. S. Wood , M. Wood , G. Zaharijas

The decay of dark matter is predicted by many theoretical models and can produce observable contributions to the cosmic-ray fluxes. I shortly discuss the interpretation of the positron and electron excess as observed by PAMELA and Fermi LAT…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-30 Christoph Weniger

At a distance of 50 kpc and with a dark matter mass of $\sim10^{10}$ M$_{\odot}$, the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) is a natural target for indirect dark matter searches. We use five years of data from the Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT)…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-27 Matthew R. Buckley , Eric Charles , Jennifer M. Gaskins , Alyson M. Brooks , Alex Drlica-Wagner , Pierrick Martin , Geng Zhao