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We analyze 60 months of all sky data from the Fermi-LAT. The Fermi Bubble structures discovered previously are clearly revealed by our analysis. With more data and, consequently, better statistics we can now divide each bubble into constant…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-07-09 Rui-zhi Yang , Felix Aharonian , Roland Crocker

Recent measurements of cosmic ray electron energy spectra suggest that above 10 GeV there may be deviations from a single power law spectrum. There are hints (ATIC) for a bump occurring between 100 GeV and 1TeV, meaning that there might be…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-08-23 Andrea Tartari , Massimo Gervasi , Giorgio Sironi , Mario Zannoni , Sebastiano Spinelli

Gamma-ray data from Fermi-LAT show a bi-lobular structure extending up to 50 degrees above and below the Galactic centre, coincident with a possibly related structure in the ROSAT X-ray map which presumably originated in some energy release…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-08-04 Philipp Mertsch , Subir Sarkar

Fermi measurements of the high-latitude gamma-ray background strongly constrain a decaying-dark-matter origin for the 1--100 GeV Galactic positron anomaly measured with PAMELA. Inverse-Compton scattering of the microwave background by the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-14 Martin Pohl , David Eichler

The first published Fermi large area telescope (Fermi-LAT) measurement of the isotropic diffuse gamma-ray emission is in good agreement with a single power law, and is not showing any signature of a dominant contribution from dark matter…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 LAT collaboration , A. A. Abdo , M. Ackermann , M. Ajello , L. Baldini , J. Ballet , G. Barbiellini , D. Bastieri , K. Bechtol , R. Bellazzini , B. Berenji , R. D. Blandford , E. D. Bloom , E. Bonamente , A. W. Borgland , A. Bouvier , J. Bregeon , A. Brez , M. Brigida , P. Bruel , T. H. Burnett , S. Buson , G. A. Caliandro , R. A. Cameron , P. A. Caraveo , S. Carrigan , J. M. Casandjian , C. Cecchi , O. C. Elik , A. Chekhtman , C. C. Cheung , J. Chiang , S. Ciprini , R. Claus , J. Cohen-Tanugi , J. Conrad , S. Cutini , C. D. Dermer , A. de Angelis , F. de Palma , S. W. Digel , E. do Couto e Silva , P. S. Drell , R. Dubois , D. Dumora , Y. Edmonds , C. Farnier , C. Favuzzi , S. J. Fegan , W. B. Focke , P. Fortin , M. Frailis , Y. Fukazawa , P. Fusco , F. Gargano , D. Gasparrini , N. Gehrels , S. Germani , N. Giglietto , F. Giordano , T. Glanzman , G. Godfrey , J. E. Grove , L. Guillemot , S. Guiriec , M. Gustafsson , D. Hadasch , A. K. Harding , D. Horan , R. E. Hughes , A. S. Johnson , W. N. Johnson , T. Kamae , H. Katagiri , J. Kataoka , N. Kawai , M. Kerr , J. Knodlseder , M. Kuss , J. Lande , L. Latronico , M. Llena Garde , F. Longo , F. Loparco , B. Lott , M. N. Lovellette , P. Lubrano , A. Makeev , M. N. Mazziotta , J. E. McEnery , C. Meurer , P. F. Michelson , W. Mitthumsiri , T. Mizuno , C. Monte , M. E. Monzani , A. Morselli , I. V. Moskalenko , S. Murgia , P. L. Nolan , J. P. Norris , E. Nuss , T. Ohsugi , N. Omodei , E. Orlando , J. F. Ormes , D. Paneque , J. H. Panetta , D. Parent , V. Pelassa , M. Pepe , M. Pesce-Rollins , F. Piron , S. Raino , R. Rando , A. Reimer , O. Reimer , T. Reposeur , A. Y. Rodriguez , M. Roth , H. F. W. Sadrozinski , A. Sander , P. M. Saz Parkinson , J. D. Scargle , A. Sellerholm , C. Sgro , E. J. Siskind , P. D. Smith , G. Spandre , P. Spinelli , J. L. Starck , M. S. Strickman , D. J. Suson , H. Takahashi , T. Tanaka , J. B. Thayer , J. G. Thayer , D. F. Torres , Y. Uchiyama , T. L. Usher , V. Vasileiou , N. Vilchez , V. Vitale , A. P. Waite , P. Wang , B. L. Winer , K. S. Wood , T. Ylinen , G. Zaharijas , M. Ziegle

The so-called "GeV-excess" of the diffuse Galactic gamma-ray emission is studied with a spectral template fit based on energy spectra. The spectral templates can be obtained in a data-driven way from the gamma-ray data, which avoids the use…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-09-13 Wim de Boer , Leo Bosse , Iris Gebauer , Alexander Neumann , Peter Biermann

Nearby clusters and groups of galaxies are potentially bright sources of high-energy gamma-ray emission resulting from the pair-annihilation of dark matter particles. However, no significant gamma-ray emission has been detected so far from…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-05-25 LAT Collaboration

The Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope, a key mission in multiwavelength and multimessenger studies, has been surveying the gamma-ray sky from its low-Earth orbit since 2008. Its two scientific instruments, the Gamma-ray Burst Monitor (GBM)…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-04-05 David J. Thompson , Colleen A. Wilson-Hodge

We attempt to simultaneously explain the recently observed 3.55 keV X-ray line in the analysis of XMM-Newton telescope data and the galactic center gamma ray excess observed by the Fermi gamma ray space telescope within an abelian gauge…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-10-14 Debasish Borah , Arnab Dasgupta , Rathin Adhikari

Dark matter particles from the Galactic halo can be gravitationally trapped in the solar core or in external orbits. The enhanced density of dark matter particles either in the solar core or in external orbits can result in the annihilation…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-07-15 M. N. Mazziotta , F. Loparco , D. Serini , A. Cuoco , P. De La Torre Luque , F. Gargano , M. Gustafsson

Using 14 years of Fermi-LAT data and 10 years of H.E.S.S. observations in the direction of the galactic center, we derive limits on gamma-ray lines originated from dark matter annihilations for fermionic and scalar fields. We describe the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-03-10 Lucia Angel , Guillermo Gambini , Leticia Guedes , Farinaldo S. Queiroz , Vitor de Souza

The nature of the GeV gamma-ray Galactic center excess (GCE) in the data of Fermi-Large Area Telescope (LAT) is still to be unveiled. We present a new analysis of the inner Galaxy Fermi-LAT data at energies above 10 GeV, based on an…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-05-27 Silvia Manconi , Francesca Calore , Fiorenza Donato

The Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope reveals two large gamma-ray bubbles in the Galaxy, which extend about 50 degrees (~ 10 kpc) above and below the Galactic center (GC) and are symmetric about the Galactic plane. Using axisymmetric…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-27 Fulai Guo , William G. Mathews

The diffuse galactic EGRET gamma ray data show a clear excess for energies above 1 GeV in comparison with the expectations from conventional galactic models. The excess is seen with the same spectrum in all sky directions, as expected for…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-10 W. de Boer

The Large Area Telescope (LAT) on the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope observatory is a pair conversion telescope sensitive to gamma-rays over more than four energy decades, between 20 MeV and more than 300 GeV. Acting in synergy with the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-14 Nicola Omodei

Monochromatic photons could be produced in the annihilation or decay of dark matter particles. At high energies, the search for such line features in the cosmic gamma-ray spectrum is essentially background free because plausible…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-05-27 Gilles Vertongen , Christoph Weniger

A spherical-symmetric gamma-ray emission from the central region of the Galaxy has been recently identified in Fermi-LAT data, and initially associated to dark matter particle annihilations. Guided by the evidence for a high gas density in…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-01-13 Daniele Gaggero , Marco Taoso , Alfredo Urbano , Mauro Valli , Piero Ullio

The gamma-ray sky >100 MeV is dominated by the diffuse emissions from interactions of cosmic rays with the interstellar gas and radiation fields of the Milky Way. Observations of these diffuse emissions provide a tool to study cosmic-ray…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-04 LAT Collaboration

Dark matter annihilations taking place in nearby subhalos could appear as gamma-ray sources without detectable counterparts at other wavelengths. In this study, we consider the collection of unassociated gamma-ray sources reported by the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-12-23 Bridget Bertoni , Dan Hooper , Tim Linden

Excess of gamma rays 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 spherical morphology and the spectral energy distribution with a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-03-13 Dmitry V. Malyshev