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I present the results of a new approach to the intensity and photon density spectrum of the intergalactic background light as a function of redshift using observational data obtained in many different wavelength bands from local to deep…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-02-11 Floyd W. Stecker

The present work derived the robust constraints on annihilating WIMP parameters utilizing new radio observations of M31, as well as new studies of its dark matter distribution and other properties. The characteristics of emission due to DM…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-07-25 Andrei E. Egorov

We report evidence for extended gamma-ray emission from the Virgo, Fornax and Coma clusters based on a maximum-likelihood analysis of the 3-year Fermi-LAT data. For all three clusters, excess emission is observed within three degrees of the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-12 Jiaxin Han , Carlos S. Frenk , Vincent R. Eke , Liang Gao , Simon D. M. White

For any realistic halo profile, the Galactic Center is predicted to be the brightest source of gamma-rays from dark matter annihilations. Due in large part to uncertainties associated with the dark matter distribution and astrophysical…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-11 Dan Hooper , Chris Kelso , Farinaldo S. Queiroz

To reveal natures of the dark matter (DM) particles, a gamma-ray signal produced in annihilation processes of DM into the standard model particles has been one of the major probes. The cross-correlation between highly DM dominated…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-02-04 Daiki Hashimoto , Atsushi J. Nishizawa , Masahiro Takada

The Milky Way (MW) dwarf spheroidal satellite galaxies (dSphs) are particularly intriguing targets to search for gamma rays from Weakly Interacting Massive Particle (WIMP) dark matter (DM) annihilation or decay. They are nearby,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-11-10 Alex McDaniel , Marco Ajello , Christopher M. Karwin , Mattia Di Mauro , Alex Drlica-Wagner , Miguel A. Sanchez-Conde

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

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

The dark matter halo of the Milky Way is predicted to contain a very large number of smaller subhalos. As a result of the dark matter annihilations taking place within such objects, the most nearby and massive subhalos could appear as…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-01-22 Asher Berlin , Dan Hooper

Photons produced in the annihilations of dark matter particles can be detected by gamma-ray telescopes; this technique of indirect detection serves as a cornerstone of the upcoming assault on the dark matter paradigm. The main obstacle to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-07-08 Eric J. Baxter , Scott Dodelson

In this thorough study we focus on the indirect detection of Dark Matter (DM) through the confrontation of unexplained galactic and extragalactic $\gamma$-ray signatures for a low mass DM model. For this, we consider a simple Higgs-portal…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-08-27 Kamakshya Prasad Modak , Debasish Majumdar

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

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

Exploring the realm of Dark Matter research, Light DM, which has a mass in the range of 1 MeV to 1 GeV, is a fascinating topic both theoretically and experimentally. We assume that the light dark matter is composed of complex scalars and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-04-05 Jun Guo , Lei Wu , Bin Zhu

We perform a detailed study of the sensitivity to the anisotropies related to Dark Matter (DM) annihilation in the Isotropic Gamma-Ray Background (IGRB) as measured by the Fermi Large Area Telescope (Fermi-LAT). For the first time, we take…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2011-09-07 A. Cuoco , A. Sellerholm , J. Conrad , S. Hannestad

Two recent papers reconsider the possibility that the excess of microwave emission from a region within $\sim 20^0$ of the galactic center (the {\it WMAP haze}), measured by WMAP, can be due to the synchrotron emission originated by…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 A. Bottino , F. Donato , N. Fornengo , S. Scopel

... A strict lower-limit flux for the evolving extragalactic background light (and in particular the cosmic infrared background) has been calculated up to redshift of 5. The computed flux is below the existing upper limits from direct…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 Tanja M. Kneiske , Herve Dole

Dwarf spheroidal galaxies are known to be excellent targets for the detection of annihilating dark matter. We present new limits on the annihilation cross section of Weakly Interacting Massive Particles (WIMPs) based on the joint analysis…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-03-20 Alex Geringer-Sameth , Savvas M. Koushiappas

The possibility to use $\gamma$--ray data from the Galactic Center (GC) to constrain the cosmological evolution of the Universe in a phase prior to primordial nucleosyntesis, namely around the time of cold dark matter (CDM) decoupling, is…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-10-27 F. Donato , N. Fornengo , M. Schelke

We present a new theoretical calculation of the contribution to the extragalactic gamma-ray background radiation (EGRB) from star-forming galaxies, based on a state-of-the-art model of hierarchical galaxy formation that is in quantitative…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2011-02-08 Ryu Makiya , Tomonori Totani , Masakazu A. R. Kobayashi