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We discuss uncertainties and possible sources of errors associated with the determination of the diffuse Galactic gamma-ray emission using the EGRET data. Most of the issues will be relevant also in the GLAST era. The focus here is on…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 I. V. Moskalenko , S. W. Digel , T. A. Porter , O. Reimer , A. W. Strong

We study the effects of substructure on the rate of dark-matter annihilation in the Galactic halo. We use an analytic model for substructure that can extend numerical simulation results to scales too small to be resolved by the simulations.…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2010-04-06 Marc Kamionkowski , Savvas M. Koushiappas , Michael Kuhlen

Synchrotron diffuse radiation (SDR) emission is one of the major Galactic components, in the 100 MHz up to 100 GHz frequency range. Its spectrum and sky map provide valuable measure of the galactic cosmic ray electrons (GCRE) in the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-11-08 Giuseppe Di Bernardo , Dario Grasso , Carmelo Evoli , Daniele Gaggero

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

Dark matter constitutes one of the most intriguing but so far unresolved issues in physics today. In many extensions of the Standard Model the existence of a stable Weakly Interacting Massive Particle (WIMP) is predicted. The WIMP is an…

Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-13 Tomi Ylinen , Yvonne Edmonds , Elliott D. Bloom , Jan Conrad

The GLAST LAT Collaboration is one among several experimental groups, covering a wide range of approaches, pursuing the search for the nature of dark matter. The GLAST LAT has the unique ability to find new sources of high energy gamma…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Lawrence Wai , GLAST LAT Collaboration

An excess in $\gamma$-rays emanating from the galactic centre has recently been observed in the Fermi-LAT data. We investigate the new exciting possibility of fitting the signal spectrum by dark matter annihilating dominantly to a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-05-22 Anibal D. Medina

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

If the present dark matter in the Universe annihilates into Standard Model particles, it must contribute to the fluxes of cosmic rays that are detected on the Earth, and in particular, to the observed gamma ray fluxes. The magnitude of such…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-04-22 J. A. R. Cembranos , A. de la Cruz-Dombriz , A. Dobado , R. A. Lineros , A. L. Maroto

The weakly interacting massive particle (WIMP) often serves as a candidate for the cold dark matter, however when produced non-thermally it could behave like warm dark matter. In this paper we study the properties of the $\gamma$-ray…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2012-12-12 Qiang Yuan , Yixian Cao , Jie Liu , Peng-Fei Yin , Liang Gao , Xiao-Jun Bi , Xinmin Zhang

(Context) We calculate constraints from current and future cosmic microwave background (CMB) measurements on annihilating dark matter (DM) with masses below the electroweak scale: m_{DM}=5-100 GeV. In particular, we focus our attention on…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 Gert Hütsi , Jens Chluba , Andi Hektor , Martti Raidal

Recent gamma-ray and radio observations provide stringent constraints for annihilating dark matter. The current $2\sigma$ lower limits of dark matter mass can be constrained to $\sim 100$ GeV for thermal relic annihilation cross section. In…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-01-05 Man Ho Chan , Chak Man Lee

If the cosmological dark matter (DM) couples to Standard Model (SM) fields, it can decay promptly to SM states in a highly energetic hard process, which subsequently showers and hadronizes to give stable particles including $e^\pm$,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-08-13 Pankaj Munbodh , Stefano Profumo

The annihilation of light dark matter was recently advocated as a possible explanation of the large positron injection rate at the Galactic center deduced from observations by the SPI spectrometer aboard INTEGRAL. The modelling of internal…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 P. Sizun , M. Casse , S. Schanne

We show that it is possible for WIMP dark matter to produce a large signal in indirect dark matter searches without producing signals elsewhere. We illustrate our point by fitting the Fermi-LAT extended galactic gamma-ray excess with a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-05-09 Celine Boehm , Matthew J. Dolan , Christopher McCabe , Michael Spannowsky , Chris J. Wallace

The cosmic electron and positron excesses have been explained as possible dark matter (DM) annihilation products. In this work we investigate the possible effects of such a DM annihilation scenario during the evolution history of the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-20 Qiang Yuan , Bin Yue , Xiaojun Bi , Xuelei Chen , Xinmin Zhang

Dark matter in the form of Weakly Interacting Massive Particles (WIMPs) can be captured by the Sun and the Earth, sink to their cores, annihilate and produce neutrinos that can be searched for with neutrino telescopes. The calculation of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2012-07-11 Sofia Sivertsson , Joakim Edsjo

Analyses have found a "haze" of anomalous microwave emission surrounding the Galactic Center in the WMAP sky maps. A recent study using Fermi data detected a similar haze in the gamma-ray. Several studies have modeled these hazes as…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-18 Matthew McQuinn , Matias Zaldarriaga

It has been recently claimed that radio observations of nearby spiral galaxies essentially rule out a dark matter source for the galactic haze. Here we consider the low energy thermal emission from a quark nugget dark matter model in the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-05-04 K. Lawson , A. R. Zhitnitsky

The phenomenology of diffuse radio emission from Dark Matter annihilation or decay in dwarf spheroidal galaxies is examined. We introduce (in the context of cosmic-ray physics) a novel strategy for the computation of the relevant…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-04-28 Martin Vollmann