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The Fermi satellite has detected GeV emission from a number of gamma-ray bursts and active galactic nuclei at high redshift, z > 1.5. We examine the constraints that the detections of gamma rays from several of these sources place on the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 Rudy C. Gilmore

We report on preliminary results from the Fermi High-Latitude Extended Sources Catalog (FHES), a comprehensive search for spatially extended gamma-ray sources at high Galactic latitudes ($|b|>5^\circ$) based on data from the Fermi Large…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-14 Matthew Wood , Jonathan Biteau , Regina Caputo , Mattia Di Mauro , Manuel Meyer

In this work, we revisit the all-sky Galactic diffuse $\gamma$-ray emission taking into account the new measurements of cosmic ray electron/positron spectrum by PAMELA, ATIC and Fermi, which show excesses of cosmic electrons/positrons…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-11-20 Juan Zhang , Qiang Yuan , Xiao-Jun Bi

We compare the surface brightness profile and morphology of the Galactic Centre Excess (GCE) identified in wide-angle $\gamma$-ray maps from the Fermi-Large Area Telescope to dark matter annihilation predictions derived from high-resolution…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-02-09 Robert J. J. Grand , Simon D. M. White

We compare the measured angular cross-correlation between the Fermi-LAT gamma-ray sky and catalogues of extra-galactic objects with the expected signal induced by weakly interacting massive particle (WIMP) dark matter (DM). We include a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-10-20 Alessandro Cuoco , Jun-Qing Xia , Marco Regis , Enzo Branchini , Nicolao Fornengo , Matteo Viel

Current theories predict relativistic hadronic particle populations in clusters of galaxies in addition to the already observed relativistic leptons. In these scenarios hadronic interactions give rise to neutral pions which decay into…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-05-06 M. Ackermann , M. Ajello , A. Albert , A. Allafort , W. B. Atwood , L. Baldini , J. Ballet , G. Barbiellini , D. Bastieri , K. Bechtol , R. Bellazzini , E. D. Bloom , E. Bonamente , E. Bottacini , T. J. Brandt , J. Bregeon , M. Brigida , P. Bruel , R. Buehler , S. Buson , G. A. Caliandro , R. A. Cameron , P. A. Caraveo , E. Cavazzuti , R. C. G. Chaves , J. Chiang , G. Chiaro , S. Ciprini , R. Claus , J. Cohen-Tanugi , J. Conrad , F. D'Ammando , A. de Angelis , F. de Palma , C. D. Dermer , S. W. Digel , P. S. Drell , A. Drlica-Wagner , C. Favuzzi , A. Franckowiak , S. Funk , P. Fusco , F. Gargano , D. Gasparrini , S. Germani , N. Giglietto , F. Giordano , M. Giroletti , G. Godfrey , G. A. Gomez-Vargas , I. A. Grenier , S. Guiriec , M. Gustafsson , D. Hadasch , M. Hayashida , J. Hewitt , R. E. Hughes , T. E. Jeltema , G. Jóhannesson , A. S. Johnson , T. Kamae , J. Kataoka , J. Knödlseder , M. Kuss , J. Lande , S. Larsson , L. Latronico , M. Llena Garde , F. Longo , F. Loparco , M. N. Lovellette , P. Lubrano , M. Mayer , M. N. Mazziotta , J. E. McEnery , P. F. Michelson , W. Mitthumsiri , T. Mizuno , M. E. Monzani , A. Morselli , I. V. Moskalenko , S. Murgia , R. Nemmen , E. Nuss , T. Ohsugi , M. Orienti , E. Orlando , J. F. Ormes , J. S. Perkins , M. Pesce-Rollins , F. Piron , G. Pivato , S. Rainò , R. Rando , M. Razzano , S. Razzaque , A. Reimer , O. Reimer , J. Ruan , M. Sánchez-Conde , A. Schulz , C. Sgrò , E. J. Siskind , G. Spandre , P. Spinelli , E. Storm , A. W. Strong , D. J. Suson , H. Takahashi , J. G. Thayer , J. B. Thayer , D. J. Thompson , L. Tibaldo , M. Tinivella , D. F. Torres , E. Troja , Y. Uchiyama , T. L. Usher , J. Vandenbroucke , G. Vianello , V. Vitale , B. L. Winer , K. S. Wood , S. Zimmer , C. Pfrommer , A. Pinzke

We present analysis of the far ultraviolet (FUV) emission of sources in the central region of the Coma cluster (z=0.023) using the data taken by the UVIT aboard the multi-wavelength satellite mission AstroSat. We find a good correlation…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-10-26 Smriti Mahajan , Kulinder Pal Singh , Joseph E. Postma , Kala G. Pradeep , Koshy George , Patrick Côté

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

Recent reports of a gamma-ray line feature at ~130 GeV in data from the Fermi Gamma-Ray Space Telescope have generated a great deal of interest in models in which dark matter particles annihilate with a sizable cross section to final states…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-05-30 Matthew R. Buckley , Dan Hooper

The center of the Milky Way is predicted to be the brightest region of gamma-rays generated by self-annihilating dark matter particles. Excess emission about the Galactic center above predictions made for standard astrophysical processes…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-05-10 Christopher Karwin , Simona Murgia , Tim M. P. Tait , Troy A. Porter , Philip Tanedo

The Fermi-LAT \gamma-ray data have been used to study the morphological and spectral features of the so-called GeV excess - a diffuse radiation component recently discovered towards the Galactic centre. We used the likelihood method to…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-04-27 Rui-zhi Yang , Felix Aharonian

In the past decade, gamma-ray observations and radio observations put strong constraints on the parameters of dark matter annihilation. In this article, we suggest another robust way to constrain the parameters of dark matter annihilation.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-08-09 Man Ho Chan

Entering a new era of high-energy gamma-ray experiments, there is an exciting quest for the first detection of gamma-ray emission from clusters of galaxies. To complement these observational efforts, we use high-resolution simulations of a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 Anders Pinzke , Christoph Pfrommer

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

We report the detection of GeV gamma-ray emission from the molecular cloud complex that surrounds the supernova remnant (SNR) W44 using the Large Area Telescope (LAT) onboard Fermi. While the previously reported gamma-ray emission from SNR…

It has been long discussed that cosmic rays may contain signals of dark matter. In the last couple of years an anomaly of cosmic-ray positrons has drawn a lot of attentions, and recently an excess in cosmic-ray anti-proton has been reported…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-06-29 Shin'ichiro Ando , Koji Ishiwata

If dark matter annihilates into standard model particles with a cross-section which is velocity dependent, then Local Group dwarf galaxies will not be the best place to search for the resulting gamma ray emission. A greater flux would be…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-16 Andrija Kostić , Deaglan J. Bartlett , Harry Desmond

Clusters of galaxies are revealing themselves as powerful sources of non thermal radiation in a wide range of wavelengths. In order to account for these multifrequency observations equipartition of cosmic rays (CRs) with the thermal gas in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Pasquale Blasi

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

Recent experiments have measured the Galactic $\gamma$-ray diffuse emission up to PeV energies, opening a window to study acceleration of Galactic cosmic rays and their propagation up to the cosmic-ray knee. Furthermore, these observations…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-09-12 Manuel Rocamora , Pedro De La Torre Luque , Miguel A. Sánchez-Conde