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Over the past few years, there has been a hint of the $\gamma$-ray excess observed by the Fermi-LAT satellite borne telescope from the regions surrounding the Galactic Centre at an energy range $\sim 1$-$3$ GeV. The nature of this excess…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-03-21 Anirban Biswas

Nearby clusters and groups of galaxies are potentially bright sources of high-energy gamma-ray emission resulting from the pair-annihilation of dark matter particles. However, no significant gamma-ray emission has been detected so far from…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-05-25 LAT Collaboration

It is shown that a Weakly Interacting Massive dark matter Particle (WIMP) interpretation for the positron excess observed in a variety of experiments, HEAT, PAMELA, and AMS-02, is highly constrained by the Fermi/LAT observations of dwarf…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-04-06 Alejandro Lopez , Christopher Savage , Douglas Spolyar , Douglas Q. Adams

Recently, some very tight constraints of annihilating dark matter have been obtained from gamma-ray data of the Milky Way and Milky Way dwarf spheroidal satellite galaxies. In this article, we report that there are two excellent galaxy…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-11-15 Man Ho Chan , Chung Hei Leung

We consider a weakly interacting massive particle (WIMP) dark matter (DM) annihilating into all possible Standard Model (SM) particle pairs, including the SM neutrinos, via $s$-wave processes and derive the branching ratio independent upper…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-09-01 Koushik Dutta , Avirup Ghosh , Arpan Kar , Biswarup Mukhopadhyaya

Dark-matter annihilation into electroweak gauge and Higgs bosons results in $\gamma$-ray emission. We use observational upper limits on the fluxes of both line and continuum $\gamma$-rays from the Milky Way Galactic Center and from Milky…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-01-06 Michael A. Fedderke , Edward W. Kolb , Tongyan Lin , Lian-Tao Wang

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

Recent gamma-ray observations and radio observations put strong constraints on the parameters of dark matter annihilation. In this article, we derive new constraints for six standard model annihilation channels by using the recent radio…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-08-03 Man Ho Chan

It has been proposed that ultracompact minihalos (UCMHs) might be formed in earlier epoch. If dark matter consists of Weakly Interacting Massive Particles (WIMPs), UCMHs can be treated as the {\gamma}-ray sources due to dark matter…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-12-30 Yupeng Yang , Lei Feng , Xiaoyuan Huang , Xuelei Chen , Tan Lu , Hongshi Zong

If dark matter annihilates into standard model particles with a cross-section which is velocity dependent, then Local Group dwarf galaxies will not be the best place to search for the resulting gamma ray emission. A greater flux would be…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-16 Andrija Kostić , Deaglan J. Bartlett , Harry Desmond

We compare the surface brightness profile and morphology of the Galactic Centre Excess (GCE) identified in wide-angle $\gamma$-ray maps from the Fermi-Large Area Telescope to dark matter annihilation predictions derived from high-resolution…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-02-09 Robert J. J. Grand , Simon D. M. White

The gamma-ray observation of dwarf spheroidal satellites (dSphs) is an ideal approach for probing the dark matter (DM) annihilation signature. The latest Fermi-LAT dSph searches have set stringent constraints on the velocity independent…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-05-09 Yi Zhao , Xiao-Jun Bi , Huan-Yu Jia , Peng-Fei Yin , Feng-Rong Zhu

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

The $\gamma$-ray and neutrino emissions from dark matter (DM) annihilation in galaxy clusters are studied. After about one year operation of Fermi-LAT, several nearby clusters are reported with stringent upper limits of GeV $\gamma$-ray…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-03-13 Qiang Yuan , Peng-Fei Yin , Xiao-Jun Bi , Xin-Min Zhang , Shou-Hua Zhu

Stellar streams are remnants of globular clusters or dwarf galaxies that have been tidally disrupted by the gravitational potential of their host galaxy. Streams originating from dwarfs can be particularly compelling targets for indirect…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-02-24 Cristina Fernandez-Suarez , Miguel A. Sanchez-Conde

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

The extragalactic $\gamma$-ray background (EGB) arises from the accumulation of $\gamma$-ray emissions from resolved and unresolved extragalactic sources as well as diffuse processes. It is important to study the statistical properties of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-07-04 Masato Shirasaki , Oscar Macias , Shunsaku Horiuchi , Naoki Yoshida , Chien-Hsiu Lee , Atsushi J. Nishizawa

In this paper, we will discuss a specific case that the dark matter particles annihilate into right-handed neutrinos. We calculate the predicted gamma-ray excess from the galactic center and compare our results with the data from the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-03-10 Yi-Lei Tang , Shou-hua Zhu

In cosmologies with hidden sector dark matter, the lightest hidden sector species can come to dominate the energy budget of the universe and cause an early matter-dominated era (EMDE). EMDEs amplify the matter power spectrum on small…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-02 Himanish Ganjoo , M. Sten Delos

Using gamma-ray data from observations of the Milky Way, Andromeda (M31), and the cosmic background, we calculate conservative upper limits on the dark matter self-annihilation cross section to monoenergetic gamma rays, <sigma_A v>_{gamma…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Gregory D. Mack , Thomas D. Jacques , John F. Beacom , Nicole F. Bell , Hasan Yuksel
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