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The annihilation of dark matter (DM) particles in the Milky Way can contribute to the diffuse gamma-ray background (DGRB). Due to the presence of substructures, this emission will appear anisotropic in a predictable way. We generate…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-23 J. U. Lange , M. -C. Chu

The extragalactic $\gamma$-ray background and its spatial anisotropy could potentially contain a signature of dark matter (DM) annihilation or particle decay. Astrophysical foregrounds, such as blazars and star-forming galaxies (SFGs),…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-02-22 Chang Feng , Asantha Cooray , Brian Keating

The source-count distribution as a function of their flux, dN/dS, is one of the main quantities characterizing gamma-ray source populations. We employ statistical properties of the Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) photon counts map to…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-07-28 Hannes-S. Zechlin , Alessandro Cuoco , Fiorenza Donato , Nicolao Fornengo , Andrea Vittino

The diffuse Galactic gamma-ray data from the region of the Galactic Center has been collected by the LAT instrument on the Fermi Gamma-Ray Space Telescope. In this paper we argue that it may be able to provide an unambiguous evidence of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2009-09-09 Leszek Roszkowski , Yue-Lin Sming Tsai

The Large Area Telescope (LAT) aboard the Fermi satellite allows us to study the high-energy gamma-ray sky with unprecedented sensitivity. However, the origin of 31% of the detected gamma-ray sources remains unknown. This population of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-27 Hannes-S. Zechlin , Dieter Horns

With assistance of the identified/associated sources in the second Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) catalog, we analyze and resolve the spatial distribution and the distributions of the gamma-ray spectral and variability indices of the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-15 Zhu Mao , Yun-Wei Yu

Recent full-sky maps of the Galaxy from the Fermi Gamma-Ray Space Telescope have revealed a diffuse component of emission towards the Galactic center and extending up to roughly +/-50 degrees in latitude. This Fermi "haze" is the inverse…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-27 Gregory Dobler , Ilias Cholis , Neal Weiner

Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) were confirmed to be of extragalactic origin due to their isotropic angular distribution, combined with the fact that they exhibited an intensity distribution that deviated strongly from the $-3/2$ power law. This…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-14 Mariusz Tarnopolski

We present an analysis of the radial angular profile of the galacto-isotropic (GI) $\gamma$-ray flux--the statistically uniform flux in circular annuli about the Galactic center. Two different approaches are used to measure the GI flux…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-06-13 Sheldon S. Campbell , Anna Kwa , Manoj Kaplinghat

An analytic relation between the statistics of photons in pixels and the number counts of multi-photon point sources is used to constrain the distribution of gamma-ray point sources below the Fermi detection limit at energies above 1 GeV…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-09-06 Dmitry Malyshev , David W. Hogg

The Fermi-LAT data accumulated over 7 years of {\gamma}-ray observations, together with the high resolution gas (CO & HI) and the dust opacity maps, are used to study the emissivity of {\gamma}-rays induced by interactions of cosmic rays…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-06-22 Rui-zhi Yang , Felix Aharonian , Carmelo Evoli

We place new constraints on the contribution of blazars to the large-scale isotropic gamma-ray background (IGRB) by jointly analyzing the measured source count distribution (logN-logS) of blazars and the measured intensity and anisotropy of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-03-12 Alessandro Cuoco , Eiichiro Komatsu , Jennifer Siegal-Gaskins

The origin of the cosmic gamma-ray background (CGB) is a longstanding mystery in high-energy astrophysics. Possible candidates include ordinary astrophysical objects such as unresolved blazars, as well as more exotic processes such as dark…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Shin'ichiro Ando , Eiichiro Komatsu , Takuro Narumoto , Tomonori Totani

Observations using the Fermi Large Area Telescope (Fermi-LAT) have found a significant gamma-ray excess surrounding the center of the Milky Way (GC). One possible interpretation of this excess invokes gamma-ray emission from an undiscovered…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-03-23 Tim Linden

The large majority of EGRET point sources remain to this day without an identified low-energy counterpart. Whatever the nature of the EGRET unidentified sources, faint unresolved objects of the same class must have a contribution to the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 V. Pavlidou , J. M. Siegal-Gaskins , C. Brown , B. D. Fields , A. V. Olinto

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

The intergalactic magnetic field (IGMF) may leave an imprint on the angular anisotropy of the extragalactic gamma-ray background through its effect on electromagnetic cascades triggered by interactions between very high energy photons and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-03 Tonia M. Venters , Vasiliki Pavlidou

The Fermi-LAT \gamma-ray data have been used to study the morphological and spectral features of the so-called GeV excess - a diffuse radiation component recently discovered towards the Galactic centre. We used the likelihood method to…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-04-27 Rui-zhi Yang , Felix Aharonian

Blazars represent the most abundant class of high-energy extragalactic $\gamma$-ray sources. The subset of blazars known as BL Lac objects is on average closer to Earth and characterized by harder spectra at high energy than the whole…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-05-26 M. Di Mauro , F. Donato , G. Lamanna , D. A. Sanchez , P. D. Serpico

The Fermi-LAT telescope has measured the extragalactic gamma-ray background (EGB) generated by the ensemble of all extragalactic sources. The energy distribution of the EGB is well described as a power-law with a spectral index…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-09-09 Paolo Lipari
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