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The aim of this work is to improve models for the gamma-ray discrete or small-scale structure related to H2 interstellar gas. Reliably identifying this contribution is important to disentangle gamma-ray point sources from interstellar gas,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-07-12 Christopher M. Karwin , Alex Broughton , Simona Murgia , Alexander Shmakov , Mohammadamin Tavakoli , Pierre Baldi

Excess of gamma rays with a spherical morphology around the Galactic center (GC) observed in the Fermi large area telescope (LAT) data is one of the most intriguing features in the gamma-ray sky. The excess has been interpreted by…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-06-07 Dmitry V. Malyshev

Fifteen years of the Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) data in the halo region of the Milky Way (MW) are analyzed to search for gamma rays from dark matter annihilation. Gamma-ray maps within the region of interest ($|l| \le 60^\circ$,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-11-25 Tomonori Totani

Recent observations of gamma-rays with the Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) in the direction of the inner Galaxy revealed a mysterious GeV excess. Its intensity is significantly above predictions of the standard model of cosmic rays (CRs)…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-08-10 Dmitry O. Chernyshov , Andrei E. Egorov , Vladimir A. Dogiel , Alexei V. Ivlev

The excess above 1 GeV in the energy spectrum of the diffuse Galactic gamma radiation, measured with the EGRET experiment, can be interpreted as the annihilation of Dark Matter (DM) particles. The DM is distributed in a halo around the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-10-29 Markus Weber

Motivated by the complex gamma-ray spectrum of the Galactic Center source now measured over five decades in energy, we revisit the issue of the role of dark matter annihilations in this interesting region. We reassess whether the emission…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-05-30 Alexander V. Belikov , Gabrijela Zaharijas , Joseph Silk

We estimate the galaxy density along lines of sight to hard extragalactic gamma-ray sources by correlating source positions on the sky with a void catalog based on the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). Extragalactic gamma-ray sources that…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-22 A. Furniss , P. M. Sutter , J. R. Primack , A. Dominguez

We examine the possibility that the dark matter (DM) interpretation of the GeV scale Fermi gamma-ray excess at the Galactic Center can be realized in a specific framework - secluded singlet fermionic dark matter model with small mixing…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-06-29 Yeong Gyun Kim , Kang Young Lee , Chan Beom Park , Seodong Shin

We analyze the recently published Fermi-LAT diffuse gamma-ray measurements in the context of leptonically annihilating or decaying dark matter (DM) with the aim to explain simultaneously the isotropic diffuse gamma-ray and the PAMELA, Fermi…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-11-20 Gert Hütsi , Andi Hektor , Martti Raidal

We present a systematic search for extraplanar X-ray point sources around 19 late-type, highly inclined disk galaxies residing in the Virgo cluster, based on archival Chandra observations reaching a source detection sensitivity of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-04-24 Zhensong Hu , Meicun Hou , Zhiyuan Li

The apparent excess of gamma rays in an extended region in the direction of the galactic center has a spatial distribution and amplitude that are suggestive of dark matter annihilations. If this excess is indeed due to dark matter…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-19 Adam Martin , Jessie Shelton , James Unwin

Evidence for an excess of gamma rays with O(GeV) energy coming from the center of our galaxy has been steadily accumulating over the past several years. Recent studies of the excess in data from the Fermi telescope have cast doubt on an…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-10-01 Seyda Ipek , David McKeen , Ann E. Nelson

Recent observations of the diffuse Galactic \gr emission (DGE) by the {\it Fermi} Large Area Telescope ({\it Fermi}-LAT) have shown significant deviations, above a few GeV until about 100 GeV, from DGE models that use the GALPROP code for…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-17 Heinrich J. Voelk , Evgeny G. Berezhko

The nearby Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) provides a rare opportunity of a spatially resolved view of an external star-forming galaxy in gamma-rays. The LMC was detected at 0.1-100GeV as an extended source with CGRO/EGRET and using early…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-11-09 LAT Collaboration

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

We report the Fermi-LAT discovery of high-energy (MeV/GeV) gamma-ray emission positionally consistent with the center of the radio galaxy M87, at a source significance of over 10 sigma in ten-months of all-sky survey data. Following the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2009-12-04 The Fermi LAT Collaboration , A. A. Abdo , D. E. Harris , F. Massaro , L. Stawarz

We use data from the Large Area Telescope onboard the Fermi gamma-ray space telescope (Fermi-LAT) to analyze the faint gamma-ray source located at the center of the Sagittarius (Sgr) dwarf spheroidal galaxy. In the 4FGL-DR3 catalog, this…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-07-19 Addy J. Evans , Louis E. Strigari , Oskar Svenborn , Andrea Albert , J. Patrick Harding , Dan Hooper , Tim Linden , Andrew B. Pace

The "GeV-excess" of the diffuse gamma-rays in the halo is studied with a template fit based on energy spectra for each possible process of gamma-ray emission. Such a fit allows to determine the background and signal simultaneously, so the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-10-28 Wim de Boer , Iris Gebauer , Alexander Neumann , Peter L. Biermann

Numerous extended sources around Galactic pulsars have shown significant $\gamma$-ray emission from GeV to TeV energies, revealing hundreds of TeV energy electrons scattering off of the underlying photon fields through inverse Compton…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-12-07 Mattia Di Mauro , Silvia Manconi , Michela Negro , Fiorenza Donato
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