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We study the annihilating dark matter contribution to the extra-galactic diffuse gamma-ray background spectrum, motivated by the recent observations of cosmic-ray positron/electron anomalies. The observed diffuse gamma-ray flux provides…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2009-09-02 Masahiro Kawasaki , Kazunori Kohri , Kazunori Nakayama

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

Excesses on positron and electron fluxes measured by ATIC, and the PAMELA and Fermi--LAT telescopes can be explained by dark matter annihilation in our Galaxy. However, this requires large boosts on the dark matter annihilation rate. There…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-05-30 Ivone F. M. Albuquerque , Leandro J. Beraldo e Silva , Carlos Pérez de los Heros

Despite an intense theoretical and experimental effort over the past decade, observations of the extragalactic radio background at multiple frequencies below 10 GHz are not understood in terms of known radio sources, and may represent a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-08-02 Andrea Caputo , Hongwan Liu , Siddharth Mishra-Sharma , Maxim Pospelov , Joshua T. Ruderman

Dark photons are a well-motivated candidate for dark matter, but their detection becomes challenging for ultralight masses with both experimental and astrophysical probes. In this work, we propose a new approach to explore this regime…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-01-06 Javier F. Acevedo , Amit Bhoonah , Kun Cheng

The extragalactic $\gamma$-ray background and its spatial anisotropy could potentially contain a signature of dark matter (DM) annihilation or particle decay. Astrophysical foregrounds, such as blazars and star-forming galaxies (SFGs),…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-02-22 Chang Feng , Asantha Cooray , Brian Keating

Dark matter annihilation in Galactic substructure will produce diffuse gamma-ray emission of remarkably constant intensity across the sky, making it difficult to disentangle this Galactic dark matter signal from the extragalactic gamma-ray…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2010-04-15 Jennifer M. Siegal-Gaskins , Vasiliki Pavlidou

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

If the dark matter is unstable, the decay of these particles throughout the universe and in the halo of the Milky Way could contribute significantly to the isotropic gamma-ray background (IGRB) as measured by Fermi. In this article, we…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-03-20 Carlos Blanco , Dan Hooper

If dark matter (DM) annihilation accounts for the tantalizing excess of cosmic ray electron/positrons, as reported by the PAMELA, ATIC, HESS and FERMI observatories, then the implied annihilation cross section must be relatively large. This…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2012-03-15 A. A. El-Zant , S. Khalil , H. Okada

We present the first interpretation of the new isotropic diffuse gamma-ray background (IGRB), measured by the Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT), based on a statistical analysis. We demonstrate that the gamma-ray emission from unresolved…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-02-11 Mattia Di Mauro

Using the latest AMS-02 cosmic ray antiproton flux data, we search for potential dark matter annihilation signal. The background parameters about the propagation, source injection, and solar modulation are not assumed {\it a priori}, but…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-05-17 Ming-Yang Cui , Qiang Yuan , Yue-Lin Sming Tsai , Yi-Zhong Fan

In addition to gamma-rays, dark matter annihilation products can include energetic electrons which inverse Compton scatter with the cosmic microwave background to produce a diffuse extragalactic background of gamma-rays and X-rays. In…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-13 Alexander V. Belikov , Dan Hooper

We present the first targeted measurement of the power spectrum of anisotropies of the radio synchrotron background, at 140 MHz where it is the overwhelmingly dominant photon background. This measurement is important for understanding the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-07-06 A. R. Offringa , J. Singal , S. Heston , S. Horiuchi , D. M. Lucero

High-energy photons from dark matter annihilation contribute to the cosmic gamma-ray background (CGB). Since dark matter particles are weakly interacting, annihilation can happen only in high density regions such as dark matter halos. The…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Shin'ichiro Ando , Eiichiro Komatsu

The detailed origin of the diffuse gamma-ray background is still unknown. However, the contribution of unresolved sources is expected to induce small-scale anisotropies in this emission, which may provide a way to identify and constrain the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-15 G. A. Gomez-Vargas , A. Cuoco , T. Linden , M. A. Sanchez-Conde , J. M. Siegal-Gaskins , T. Delahaye , M. Fornasa , E. Komatsu , F. Prada , J. Zavala

Dark matter annihilation in galactic substructure would imprint characteristic angular signatures on the all-sky map of the diffuse gamma-ray background. We study the gamma-ray background anisotropy due to the subhalos and discuss…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-04-21 Shin'ichiro Ando

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

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

Recent results from the PAMELA, ATIC, PPB BETS and Fermi collaborations extend the energy range in the electron flux measurement up to unexplored energies in the hundred GeVs range confirming the bump starting at about 10GeV already…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-11-18 Ignacio Cernuda