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The center of the Milky Way is predicted to be the brightest region of gamma-rays generated by self-annihilating dark matter particles. Excess emission about the Galactic center above predictions made for standard astrophysical processes…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-05-10 Christopher Karwin , Simona Murgia , Tim M. P. Tait , Troy A. Porter , Philip Tanedo

In this contribution I review the present status and discuss some prospects for indirect detection of dark matter with gamma-rays. Thanks to the Fermi Large Area Telescope, searches in gamma-rays have reached sensitivities that allow to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 Jan Conrad

Recent studies have found a positive correlation between the star-formation rate of galaxies and their gamma-ray luminosity. Galaxies with a high star-formation rate are expected to produce a large amount of high-energy cosmic rays, which…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-08-17 Cesar Rojas-Bravo , Miguel Araya

Galaxy clusters are among the most massive gravitationally bound systems in the Universe and are considered major reservoirs of high-energy cosmic rays, yet no conclusive $\gamma$-ray detection from them has been achieved. This…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-11-20 Gajanan D Harale , Surajit Paul

The observation of a sharp spectral feature in the gamma-ray sky would be one of the cleanest ways to identify dark matter and pinpoint its properties. Over the years a lot of attention has been paid to two specific features, namely…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2012-07-25 Alejandro Ibarra , Sergio López Gehler , Miguel Pato

Observations by the Fermi-LAT have uncovered a bright, spherically symmetric excess surrounding the center of the Milky Way galaxy. The spectrum of the gamma-ray excess peaks sharply at an energy ~2 GeV, exhibiting a hard spectrum at lower…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-02-28 Tim Linden , Nicholas L. Rodd , Benjamin R. Safdi , Tracy R. Slatyer

We use 7 years of electron and positron Fermi-LAT data to search for a possible excess in the direction of the Sun in the energy range from 42 GeV to 2 TeV. In the absence of a positive signal we derive flux upper limits which we use to…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-01-15 A. Cuoco , P. De La Torre Luque , F. Gargano , M. Gustafsson , F. Loparco , M. N. Mazziotta , D. Serini

We analyze the recently released Fermi-LAT data on the sum of electrons and positrons. Compared to a conventional, pre-Fermi, background model, a surprising excess in the several hundred GeV range is found and here we analyze it in terms of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2009-09-02 Lars Bergstrom , Joakim Edsjo , Gabrijela Zaharijas

Dwarf spheroidal galaxies (dSphs) are promising targets for the indirect detection of dark matter through gamma-ray emission due to their proximity, lack of astrophysical backgrounds and high dark matter density. They are often used to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-06-01 Matthew G. Baring , Tathagata Ghosh , Farinaldo S. Queiroz , Kuver Sinha

Dark matter annihilation into charged particles is necessarily accompanied by gamma rays, produced via radiative corrections. Internal bremsstrahlung from the final state particles can produce hard gamma rays up to the dark matter mass,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-02-01 Nicole F. Bell , Thomas D. Jacques

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

A new estimation of the isotropic diffuse gamma-ray background (IGRB) observed by the Large Area Telescope (LAT) on board the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope (Fermi) has been presented for 50 months of data, in the energy range 100 MeV-820…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-05-17 Mattia Di Mauro , Fiorenza Donato

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

We present preliminary results of our analysis of the {\it Fermi}-LAT data from the direction of NGC 4151. We find a new gamma-ray source with a statistical significance sigma > 5, shifted by 0.5degr from the position of NGC 4151.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-03-06 Rafal Wojaczynski , Andrzej Niedzwiecki , Fu-Guo Xie

Very high energy (VHE, E > 30 GeV) gamma-rays are absorbed via interaction with low-energy photons from the extragalactic background light (EBL) if the involved photon energies are above the threshold for electron-positron pair creation.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 D. Mazin

Conventional lore from Tremaine and Gunn excludes fermionic dark matter lighter than a few hundred eV, based on the Pauli exclusion principle. We highlight a simple way of evading this bound with a large number of species that leads to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-03-22 Hooman Davoudiasl , Peter B. Denton , David A. McGady

Searches for "dark" subhaloes in gamma-ray point-like source catalogues are among promising strategies for indirect dark matter detection. Such a search is nevertheless affected by uncertainties related, on the one hand, to the modelling of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-05-12 Francesca Calore , Moritz Hütten , Martin Stref

Various theoretical models predict the existence of extended $\gamma$-ray halo around normal galaxies that could be produced by interactions of cosmic rays with the circumgalactic medium or by annihilation or decay of hypothetical dark…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-04-03 M. S. Pshirkov , B. A. Nizamov

Coy dark matter is an effective scheme in which a fermionic dark matter candidate interacts with the Standard Model fermions via a pseudoscalar mediator. This simple setup avoids the strong constraints posed by direct detection experiments…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-06-21 Andi Hektor , Luca Marzola , Taavi Tuvi

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