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Dark stars powered by dark matter annihilation have been proposed as the first luminous sources in the universe. These stars are believed to form in the central dark matter cusp of low-mass minihalos. Recent calculations indicate stellar…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-08-26 Dominik R. G. Schleicher , Robi Banerjee , Ralf S. Klessen

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 study the capabilities of the Fermi-LAT instrument for identifying particle Dark Matter properties as mass, annihilation cross section and annihilation channels, with gamma-ray observations from the Galactic Center. For the potential…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2010-12-02 Nicolas Bernal

High energy electrons and positrons from decaying dark matter can produce a significant flux of gamma rays by inverse Compton off low energy photons in the interstellar radiation field. This possibility is inevitably related with the dark…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-11-20 Le Zhang , Christoph Weniger , Luca Maccione , Javier Redondo , Guenter Sigl

Recent high-energy data from Fermi-LAT on the diffuse gamma-ray background have been used to set among the best constraints on annihilating TeV cold dark matter candidates. In order to assess the robustness of these limits, we revisit and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-02-08 Moritz Hütten , Céline Combet , David Maurin

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

A mechanism is identified whereby dark matter (DM) in protostellar halos dramatically alters the current theoretical framework for the formation of the first stars. Heat from neutralino DM annihilation is shown to overwhelm any cooling…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-23 Douglas Spolyar , Katherine Freese , Paolo Gondolo

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

Several cosmic ray experiments have measured excesses in electrons and positrons, relative to standard backgrounds, for energies from ~ 10 GeV - 1 TeV. These excesses could be due to new astrophysical sources, but an explanation in which…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-11-20 Spencer Chang , Lisa Goodenough

We study diffuse gamma-ray emission at intermediate Galactic latitudes measured by the Fermi Large Area Telescope with the aim of searching for a signal from dark matter annihilation or decay. In the absence of a robust dark matter signal,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-12 Gabrijela Zaharijas , Jan Conrad , Alessandro Cuoco , Zhaoyu Yang

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

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

Dark Stars (DS) may constitute the first phase of stellar evolution, powered by dark matter (DM) annihilation. We will investigate here the properties of DS assuming the DM particle has the required properties to explain the excess positron…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-06-02 Cosmin Ilie , Katherine Freese , Douglas Spolyar

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

If the dark matter is part of a hidden sector with only very feeble couplings to the Standard Model, the lightest particle in the hidden sector will generically be long-lived and could come to dominate the energy density of the universe…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-11-20 Carlos Blanco , M. Sten Delos , Adrienne L. Erickcek , Dan Hooper

(Abridged) The extragalactic background light (EBL) observed at multiple wavelengths is a promising tool to probe the nature of dark matter since it might contain a significant contribution from gamma-rays produced promptly by dark matter…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-06-30 Jesus Zavala , Mark Vogelsberger , Tracy R. Slatyer , Abraham Loeb , Volker Springel

The energy-dependence of the anisotropy (the anisotropy energy spectrum) of the large-scale diffuse gamma-ray background can reveal the presence of multiple source populations. Annihilating dark matter in the substructure of the Milky Way…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-20 Brandon S. Hensley , Jennifer M. Siegal-Gaskins , Vasiliki Pavlidou

Gamma-ray searches for new physics such as dark matter are often driven by investigating the composition of the extragalactic gamma-ray background (EGB). Classic approaches to EGB decomposition manifest in resolving individual point sources…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-10-31 Hannes-S. Zechlin , Silvia Manconi , Fiorenza Donato

We include an energy term based on Dark Matter (DM) self-annihilation during the cooling and subsequent collapse of the metal-free gas, in halos hosting the formation of the first stars in the Universe. We have found that the feedback…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 E. Ripamonti , F. Iocco , A. Ferrara , R. Schneider , A. Bressan , P. Marigo

We analyze 2.8-yr data of 1-100 GeV photons for clusters of galaxies, collected with the Large Area Telescope onboard the Fermi satellite. By analyzing 49 nearby massive clusters located at high Galactic latitudes, we find no excess…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2012-07-09 Shin'ichiro Ando , Daisuke Nagai