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The gamma-ray line from dark matter (DM) annihilation is too weak to observe, but its observation will uncover much information, e.g., the DM mass and an nomalously large annihilation rate $\sim0.1$ pb into di-photon. In this work, we…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2012-06-29 Zhaofeng Kang , Tianjun Li , Jinmian Li , Yandong Liu

The Fermi LAT collaboration has recently presented constraints on the gamma-ray signal from annihilating dark matter using separate analyses of a number of dwarf spheroidal galaxies. Since the expected annihilation signal has the same…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2011-03-01 Maja Llena Garde

We analyze publicly available Fermi-LAT high-energy gamma-ray data and confirm the existence of clear spectral feature peaked at E=130GeV. Scanning over the Galaxy we identify several disconnected regions where the observed excess…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2012-10-31 Elmo Tempel , Andi Hektor , Martti Raidal

We analyze the first two years of data from the Fermi Gamma Ray Space Telescope from the direction of the inner 10 degrees around the Galactic Center with the intention of constraining, or finding evidence of, annihilating dark matter. We…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-03-17 Dan Hooper , Lisa Goodenough

Indirect detection experiments typically measure the flux of annihilating dark matter (DM) particles propagating freely through galactic halos. We consider a new scenario where celestial bodies "focus" DM annihilation events, increasing the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-05-05 Rebecca K. Leane , Tim Linden , Payel Mukhopadhyay , Natalia Toro

We present the first observational limits on the predicted synchrotron signals from particle Dark Matter annihilation models in dwarf spheroidal galaxies at radio frequencies below 1 GHz. We use a combination of survey data from the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-14 Arpan Kar , Sourav Mitra , Biswarup Mukhopadhyaya , Tirthankar Roy Choudhury , Steven Tingay

High resolution simulations reveal that in the cold dark matter scenario the structures form hierarchically and a large number of substructures survive in the galactic halos. The substructures can be probed if they emit gamma rays via dark…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Xiao-Jun Bi

Dark matter annihilation into photons in our galaxy would constitute an exciting indirect signal of its existence, as underscored by tentative evidence for 130 GeV dark matter in Fermi/LAT data. Models that give a large annihilation cross…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-11-11 James M. Cline , Grace Dupuis , Zuowei Liu

We derive constraints on parameters of generic dark matter candidates by comparing theoretical predictions with the gamma-ray emission observed by the Fermi-LAT from the region around the Galactic Center. Our analysis is conservative since…

We search for spectral features in Fermi-LAT gamma-rays coming from regions corresponding to eighteen brightest nearby galaxy clusters determined by the magnitude of their signal line-of-site integrals. We observe a double peak-like excess…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-05 Andi Hektor , Martti Raidal , Elmo Tempel

If weakly-interacting massive particles (WIMPs) make up the galactic dark matter halo, high densities of such particles would exist near massive bodies, such as the sun. The resulting annihilations are believed to produce neutrinos, gamma…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 D. W. Hooper

Annihilating dark matter particles in nearby subhalos could generate potentially observable fluxes of gamma rays, unaccompanied by emission at other wavelengths. Furthermore, this gamma-ray emission is expected to be spatially extended,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-09-26 Ti-Lin Chou , Dimitrios Tanoglidis , Dan Hooper

Current cosmological models and data suggest the existence of a cold Dark Matter (DM) component, however the nature of DM particles remains unknown. A favored candidate for DM is a Weakly Interacting Massive Particle (WIMP) in the mass…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-13 Benjamin Zitzer

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

Dwarf spheroidal galaxies are dark matter dominated systems, and as such, ideal for indirect dark matter searches. If dark matter decays into high-energy photons in the dwarf galaxies, they will be a good target for current and future…

A commonly encountered obstacle in indirect searches for galactic dark matter is how to disentangle possible signals from astrophysical backgrounds. Given that such signals are most likely subdominant, the search for pronounced spectral…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-03-20 Torsten Bringmann , Xiaoyuan Huang , Alejandro Ibarra , Stefan Vogl , Christoph Weniger

Dark matter annihilation in dwarf spheroidal (dSph) galaxies near the Milky Way has the potential to produce a detectable signature in gamma-rays. The amplitude of this signal depends on the dark matter density in a dSph, the dark matter…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-08-09 Eric J. Baxter , Jason Kumar , Andrew B. Pace , Jack Runburg

In this paper we study the detectability of $\gamma$-rays from dark matter annihilation in the subhalos of the Milky Way by the satellite-based experiments, EGRET and GLAST. We work in the frame of supersymmetric extension of the standard…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Xiao-Jun Bi

Gamma-ray observations of Milky Way dwarf galaxies have been used to place stringent constraints on the dark matter's annihilation cross section. In this paper, we evaluate the sensitivity of the proposed Advanced Particle-astrophysics…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-08-31 Fei Xu , Dan Hooper

We discuss the prospects for indirect detection of dark matter (DM) with the Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA), a future ground-based gamma-ray observatory that will be sensitive to gamma rays in the energy range from a few tens of GeV to 100…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-09-24 Matthew Wood , Jim Buckley , Seth Digel , Stefan Funk , Daniel Nieto , Miguel A. Sanchez-Conde