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The spectrum of an isotropic extragalactic {\gamma}-ray background (EGB) has been measured by the Fermi-LAT telescope at high latitudes. Two new models for the EGB are derived from the subraction of unresolved point sources and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-05-15 Francesca Calore , Valentina De Romeri , Fiorenza Donato

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

Current cosmological models and data suggest the existence of a Cold Dark Matter (DM) component, however the nature of DM particles remains unknown. A favored candidate for DM is a Weakly Interacting Massive Particle (WIMP) in the mass…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-13 Jeffrey Grube

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, with a weakly interacting massive particle (WIMP)…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-13 Matthieu Vivier

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

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

For any realistic halo profile, the Galactic Center is predicted to be the brightest source of gamma-rays from dark matter annihilations. Due in large part to uncertainties associated with the dark matter distribution and astrophysical…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-11 Dan Hooper , Chris Kelso , Farinaldo S. Queiroz

The study of the cross-correlation angular power spectrum between gravitational tracers and electromagnetic signals can be a powerful tool to constrain Dark Matter (DM) microscopic properties. In this work we correlate \Fermi\ diffuse…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-05-06 Xiuhui Tan , Manuel Colavincenzo

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

When comparing constraints on the Weakly Interacting Massive Particle (WIMP) properties from direct and indirect detection experiments it is crucial that the assumptions made about the dark matter (DM) distribution are realistic and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-24 David G. Cerdeno , Mattia Fornasa , Anne M. Green , Miguel Peiro

The direct measurements of the cosmic electron-positron spectrum around 1 TeV made by DAMPE have induced many theoretical speculations about possible excesses in the data above the standard astrophysical predictions that might have the dark…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-07-01 Konstantin Belotsky , Airat Kamaletdinov , Maxim Laletin , Maxim Solovyov

Recent results from numerical simulations and models of galaxy formation suggest that recently discovered ultra-faint compact stellar systems (UFCSs) in the halo of the Milky Way (MW) may be some of the smallest and faintest galaxies. If…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-12-13 A. Circiello , A. McDaniel , A. Drlica-Wagner , C. Karwin , M. Ajello , M. Di Mauro , M. Sánchez-Conde

The weakly interacting massive particle (WIMP) often serves as a candidate for the cold dark matter, however when produced non-thermally it could behave like warm dark matter. In this paper we study the properties of the $\gamma$-ray…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2012-12-12 Qiang Yuan , Yixian Cao , Jie Liu , Peng-Fei Yin , Liang Gao , Xiao-Jun Bi , Xinmin Zhang

The density spike of dark matter (DM) in the subparsec region near the supermassive black hole at the Galactic Center can provide potentially observable gamma-ray signals coming from DM annihilations. Taking Fermi-$LAT$ data for the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-08-08 Pearl Sandick , Kuver Sinha , Takahiro Yamamoto

Due to a large mass-to-light ratio and low astrophysical backgrounds, dwarf spheroidal galaxies (dSphs) are considered to be one of the most promising targets for dark matter searches via gamma rays. The Fermi LAT Collaboration has recently…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-13 Alex Drlica-Wagner

We propose a new signature for weakly interacting massive particle (WIMP) dark matter, a spectral feature in the diffuse extragalactic gamma-ray radiation. This feature, a sudden drop of the gamma-ray intensity at an energy corresponding to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-04-06 Lars Bergstrom , Joakim Edsjo , Piero Ullio

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

Numerical simulations of structure formation have recorded a remarkable progress in the recent years, in particular due to the inclusion of baryonic physics evolving with the dark matter component. We generate Monte Carlo realizations of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-09-20 Francesca Calore , Valentina De Romeri , Mattia Di Mauro , Fiorenza Donato , Federico Marinacci

Galaxy clusters are promising targets for indirect dark matter searches. Gamma-ray signatures from the decay or annihilation of dark matter particles inside these clusters could be observable with the Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT). Based…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-05-30 Xiaoyuan Huang , Gilles Vertongen , Christoph Weniger

Annihilation of dark matter particles in cosmological halos (including a halo of the Milky Way) contributes to the diffuse gamma-ray background (DGRB). As this contribution will appear anisotropic in the sky, one can use the angular power…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-07-31 Shin'ichiro Ando , Eiichiro Komatsu