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Annihilation of Dark Matter usually produces together with gamma rays comparable amounts of electrons and positrons. The e+e- gyrating in the galactic magnetic field then produce secondary synchrotron radiation which thus provides an…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-08-19 Enrico Borriello , Alessandro Cuoco , Gennaro Miele

An interesting strategy for indirect detection of Dark Matter comes through the amounts of electrons and positrons usually emitted by DM pair annihilation. The e+e- gyrating in the galactic magnetic field then produce secondary synchrotron…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-01-08 Enrico Borriello , Alessandro Cuoco , Gennaro Miele

The hierarchical clustering observed in cold dark matter simulations results in highly clumped galactic halos. If the dark matter in our halo is made of weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs), their annihilation products should be…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 P. Blasi , A. V. Olinto , C. Tyler

Synchrotron emission from electron cosmic ray populations can be used to study both cosmic rays physics and WIMP dark matter imprints on radio skymaps. We used available radio data - from MHz to GHz - to analyze the contribution from…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-09-19 Roberto A. Lineros

We perform a detailed analysis of the synchrotron signals produced by Dark Matter annihilations and decays. We consider different set-ups for the propagation of electrons and positrons, the galactic magnetic field and Dark Matter…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-07-29 Marco Cirelli , Marco Taoso

The annihilations of neutralino dark matter (or other dark matter candidate) generate, among other Standard Model states, electrons and positrons. These particles emit synchrotron photons as a result of their interaction with the Galactic…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 Dan Hooper

The Large Magellanic Cloud, at only 50 kpc away from us and known to be dark matter dominated, is clearly an interesting place where to search for dark matter annihilation signals. In this paper, we estimate the synchrotron emission due to…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2011-03-16 Beatriz B. Siffert , Angelo Limone , Enrico Borriello , Giuseppe Longo , Gennaro Miele

We present a detailed analysis of the radio synchrotron emission induced by WIMP dark matter annihilations and decays in extragalactic halos. We compute intensity, angular correlation, and source counts and discuss the impact on the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-03-27 N. Fornengo , R. Lineros , M. Regis , M. Taoso

Radio observations of the Ursa Major II dwarf spheroidal galaxy obtained using the Green Bank Telescope are used to place bounds on WIMP dark matter properties. Dark matter annihilation releases energy in the form of charged particles which…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-11-13 Aravind Natarajan , Jeffrey B. Peterson , Tabitha C. Voytek , Kristine Spekkens , Brian Mason , James Aguirre , Beth Willman

Dark Matter (DM) annihilation in our Galaxy may produce a linearly polarized synchrotron signal. We use, for the first time, synchrotron polarization to constrain the DM annihilation cross section by comparing theoretical predictions with…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-09-13 Silvia Manconi , Alessandro Cuoco , Julien Lesgourgues

Excess microwave emission observed in the inner Galaxy (inner ~1 kpc) is consistent with synchrotron emission from highly relativistic electron-positron pairs produced by dark matter particle annihilation. More conventional sources for this…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-04-08 Douglas P. Finkbeiner

We used radio observations of the neighbour galaxy M31 in order to put constraints on dark matter particle mass and annihilation cross section. Dark matter annihilation in M31 halo produces highly energetic leptons, which emit synchrotron…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 A. E. Egorov , E. Pierpaoli

The WMAP experiment has revealed an excess of microwave emission from the region around the center of our Galaxy. It has been suggested that this signal, known as the ``WMAP Haze'', could be synchrotron emission from relativistic electrons…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Dan Hooper , Douglas P. Finkbeiner , Gregory Dobler

A generic prediction in the paradigm of weakly interacting dark matter is the production of relativistic particles from dark matter pair-annihilation in regions of high dark matter density. Ultra-relativistic electrons and positrons…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2014-11-20 Tim Linden , Stefano Profumo , Brandon Anderson

Dwarf galaxies are dark matter-dominated and therefore promising targets for the search for weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs), which are well-known candidates for dark matter. Annihilation of WIMPs produce ultra-relativistic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-06-19 Martin Vollmann , Volker Heesen , Timothy Shimwell , Martin J. Hardcastle , Marcus Brüggen , Günter Sigl , Huub Röttgering

The annihilation of neutralino dark matter may result in observable signals in different wavelength. In the present paper we will discuss the effect of neutralino annihilation in the halo of our Galaxy and in its center. According to high…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-11-09 Roberto Aloisio

Among various approaches for indirect detection of dark matter, synchrotron emission due to secondary electrons/positrons produced in galactic WIMPs annihilation is raising an increasing interest. In this paper we propose a new method to…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2010-01-15 Enrico Borriello , Giuseppe Longo , Gennaro Miele , Maurizio Paolillo , Beatriz B. Siffert , Fatemeh S. Tabatabaei , Rainer Beck

Annihilating dark matter particles produce roughly as much power in electrons and positrons as in gamma ray photons. The charged particles lose essentially all of their energy to inverse Compton and synchrotron processes in the galactic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 E. A. Baltz , L. Wai

We explore the possible signatures of dark matter (DM) pair annihilations in the nearby dwarf spheroidal galaxy Draco. After investigating the mass models for Draco in the light of available observational data, we carefully model the DM…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 S. Colafrancesco , S. Profumo , P. Ullio

The nature of the cosmic dark matter is unknown. The most compelling hypothesis is that dark matter consists of weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs) in the 100 GeV mass range. Such particles would annihilate in the galactic halo,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Edward A. Baltz , James E. Taylor , Lawrence L. Wai
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