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We look for possible spectral features and systematic effects in Fermi-LAT publicly available high-energy gamma-ray data by studying photons from the Galactic centre, nearby galaxy clusters, nearby brightest galaxies, AGNs, unassociated…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-11 Andi Hektor , Martti Raidal , Elmo Tempel

We search for a unified instrumental explanation of the spectral features seen near $E_\gamma=130$ GeV in photons collected by Fermi-LAT from the galactic center and from the Earth's limb. We report for the first time a similar feature in…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-08-09 Daniel Whiteson

Since the spring of 2012 there have been many papers published using Fermi LAT public data that claim evidence for narrow spectral lines coming from the region of the Galactic center. This study uses non-Galactic center Fermi-LAT data from…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-03-21 E. Bloom , E. Charles , E. Izaguirre , A. Snyder , A. Albert , B. Winer , Z. Yang , R. Essig

Recently, tentative evidence for an excess of gamma rays at energies around 130 GeV has been reported from analyses of data from the Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT). The excess is potentially of great interest, as it could be associated…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2012-07-04 Stefano Profumo , Tim Linden

Using 43 months of public gamma-ray data from the Fermi Large Area Telescope, we find in regions close to the Galactic center at energies of 130 GeV a 4.6 sigma excess that is not inconsistent with a gamma-ray line from dark matter…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-11 Christoph Weniger

Recently, an interesting indication for a dark matter signal in the form of a narrow line, or maybe two lines and/or an internal bremsstrahlung feature, has been found in data from the Fermi-LAT satellite detector. As recent analyses have…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-04-24 Lars Bergström

An excess of gamma rays at GeV energies has been detected in the Fermi-LAT data. This signal comes from a narrow region around the Galactic Center and has been interpreted as possible evidence for light (30 GeV) dark matter particles.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-01-30 Thomas Lacroix

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

A gamma-ray excess from the galactic center consistent with line emission around 130 GeV was recently found in the Fermi-LAT data. Although the Fermi-LAT Collaboration has not confirmed its significance, such a signal would be a clear…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-08-29 Takashi Toma

Recently some hints of the existence of $\gamma$-ray line around 130 GeV are reported according to the analysis of Fermi-LAT data. If confirmed it would be the first direct evidence to show the existence of new physics beyond the standard…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2012-08-16 Ye Li , Qiang Yuan

The Fermi Collaboration has recently updated their analysis of gamma rays from the center of the Galaxy. They reconfirm the presence of an unexplained emission feature which is most prominent in the region of $1-10$ GeV, known as the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-01-11 Abraham Achterberg , Melissa van Beekveld , Sascha Caron , Germán A. Gómez-Vargas , Luc Hendriks , Roberto Ruiz de Austri

The excess of $\gamma$ rays in the data measured by Fermi-LAT from the Galactic center region is one of the most intriguing mysteries in Astroparticle Physics. This Galactic center excess (GCE), has been measured with respect to different…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-05-27 Mattia Di Mauro

Recent observations indicating the existence of a monochromatic gamma-ray line with energy ~130 GeV in the Fermi-LAT data have attracted great interest due to the possibility that the line feature stems from the annihilation of dark matter…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-08-28 Eric Carlson , Tim Linden , Stefano Profumo , Christoph Weniger

Recently, several groups identified a tentative $\gamma$-ray line signal with energy $\sim 130$ GeV in the central Galaxy from the Fermi-LAT data. %The morphology study shows that the signal is consistent with dark matter %annihilation, but…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-08-24 Rui-Zhi Yang , Qiang Yuan , Lei Feng , Yi-Zhong Fan , Jin Chang

Several groups have recently claimed evidence for an unaccounted gamma-ray excess over {the} diffuse backgrounds at few GeV in {the} Fermi-LAT data in a region around the Galactic Center, consistent with a dark matter annihilation origin.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-19 Jovana Petrovic , Pasquale Dario Serpico , Gabrijela Zaharijas

The Galactic center is an interesting region for high-energy (0.1-100 GeV) and very-high-energy (E > 100 GeV) gamma-ray observations. Potential sources of GeV/TeV gamma-ray emission have been suggested, e.g., the accretion of matter onto…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-27 The VERITAS Collaboration

The region around the Galactic center (GC) is now well established to be brighter at energies of a few GeV than expected from conventional models of diffuse gamma-ray emission and catalogs of known gamma-ray sources. We study the GeV excess…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-06-27 LAT Collaboration

Recent claims of a line in the Fermi-LAT photon spectrum at 130 GeV are suggestive of dark matter annihilation in the galactic center and other dark matter-dominated regions. If the Fermi feature is indeed due to dark matter annihilation,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-11 Yang Bai , Jessie Shelton

The center of the Milky Way is offering one of the most striking mystery in Astroparticle Physics. An excess of gamma rays (GCE) has been measured by several groups in the data collected by the Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) towards the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-11-18 Mattia Di Mauro

We present a catalog of sources of very high energy (E>100 GeV) gamma-rays detected by the Large Area Telescope (LAT) onboard the Fermi Gamma-Ray Space Telescope at Galactic latitudes |b|>=10 degrees. We cross-correlate the directions of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-18 A. Neronov , D. V. Semikoz , Ie. Vovk
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