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Antimatter cosmic-rays are used to probe new phenomena in physics, including dark matter annihilation. We use the cosmic-ray positron fraction spectrum by the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer, to search for such an annihilation signal in the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-01-18 Iason Krommydas , Ilias Cholis

The cosmic-ray propagation code GALPROP has recently been enhanced in the areas of Galactic magnetic field and synchrotron radiation. A full 3D treatment is now implemented. We describe these enhancements and show applications to the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2009-07-06 E. Orlando , A. W. Strong , I. V. Moskalenko , T. A. Porter , G. Johannesson , S. W. Digel

We present an analysis of Murchison Widefield Array radio telescope data from $\omega$ Cen, possibly a stripped dwarf spheroidal galaxy core captured by our Galaxy. Recent interpretations of Fermi-LAT $\gamma$-ray data by Brown {\it et al.}…

We examine the constraints on models of weakly interacting massive particle (WIMP) dark matter from the recent observations of the Galactic center by the High Energy Spectroscopic System (HESS) telescope. We analyze canonical WIMP…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2012-02-09 Kevork N. Abazajian , J. Patrick Harding

We will describe the prospects for detecting gamma-rays from WIMP's annihilation in the Galactic Center and we compare this search with the possibilities at LHC and with space antimatter experiments like PAMELA.

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 A. Morselli , A. Lionetto , E. Nuss

Radio-frequency, indirect dark matter searches have recently been gaining prevalence, due to the high sensitivity and resolution capabilities of the new generation of radio interferometers. MeerKAT is currently one of the most sensitive…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-01-09 Natasha Lavis , Michael Sarkis , Geoff Beck , Kenda Knowles

Some direct detection experiments have recently collected excess events that could be interpreted as a dark matter (DM) signal, pointing to particles in the $\sim$10 GeV mass range. We show that scenarios in which DM can self-annihilate…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-03 Julien Lavalle

The low-frequency radio sky is dominated by the diffuse synchrotron emission of our Galaxy and extragalactic radio sources related to Active Galactic Nuclei and star-forming galaxies. This foreground emission is much brighter than the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-09-30 Emma Chapman , Vibor Jelić

Observations of the extragalactic radio background have uncovered a significant isotropic emission across multiple frequencies spanning from 22 MHz to 10 GHz. The intensity of this non-thermal emission component significantly exceeds the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-07-05 Ke Fang , Tim Linden

We extend previous work modeling the Galactic magnetic field in the plane using synchrotron emission in total and polarised intensity. In this work, we include a more realistic treatment of the cosmic-ray electrons using the GALPROP…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-02-14 T. R. Jaffe , A. J. Banday , J. P. Leahy , S. Leach , A. W. Strong

We put constraints on asymmetric dark matter candidates with spin-dependent interactions based on the simple existence of white dwarfs and neutron stars in globular clusters. For a wide range of the parameters (WIMP mass and WIMP-nucleon…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2011-04-22 Chris Kouvaris , Peter Tinyakov

We propose a fermionic dark matter model by extending Standard Model with a Dirac fermion and a real pseudoscalar. The fermion dark matter particle interacts with the Standard Model sector via the Higgs portal through a dimension five…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-06-05 Avik Paul , Debasish Majumdar , Amit Dutta Banik

The Galactic disc is opaque to radio waves from extragalactic sources with frequencies nu less than ~3 MHz. However, radio waves with kHz, Hz, and even lower frequencies may propagate through the intergalactic medium (IGM). I argue that the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 Brian C. Lacki

The spectrum of an isotropic extragalactic $\gamma$-ray background (EGB) has been measured by the Fermi-LAT telescope at high latitudes. Two new models for the EGB are derived from the subtraction of unresolved point sources and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-03 F. Donato , F. Calore , V. De Romeri

The self-annihilation of dark matter particles with mass in the MeV range can produce gamma rays via prompt or secondary radiation. The annihilation rate for such light dark matter particles is however tightly constrained by cosmic…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-10-04 Alma X. Gonzalez-Morales , Stefano Profumo , Javier Reynoso-Córdova

Recent radio observations have obtained stringent constraints for annihilating dark matter. In this article, we use the radio continuum spectral data of the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) to analyze the dark matter annihilation signals. We…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-08-15 Man Ho Chan , Chak Man Lee

Gamma-ray searches for dark matter annihilation and decay in dwarf galaxies rely on an understanding of the dark matter density profiles of these systems. Conversely, uncertainties in these density profiles propagate into the derived…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-12 Alex Geringer-Sameth , Savvas M. Koushiappas , Matthew Walker

The inner degrees of the Galactic center contain a large population of filamentary structures observed at radio frequencies. These so-called non-thermal radio filaments (NRFs) trace magnetic field lines and have attracted significant…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-28 Tim Linden , Dan Hooper , Farhad Yusef-Zadeh

Simple models of weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs) predict dark matter annihilations into pairs of electroweak gauge bosons, Higgses or tops, which through their subsequent cascade decays produce a spectrum of gamma rays.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-05-20 Prateek Agrawal , Brian Batell , Patrick J. Fox , Roni Harnik

Dwarf spheroidal galaxies that form in halo substructures provide stringent constraints on dark matter annihilation. Many ultrafaint dwarfs discovered with modern surveys contribute significantly to these constraints. At present, because of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-09-23 Shin'ichiro Ando , Alex Geringer-Sameth , Nagisa Hiroshima , Sebastian Hoof , Roberto Trotta , Matthew G. Walker