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We obtain bounds on dark matter annihilation using 14 years of publicly available Fermi-LAT data from a set of 54 dwarf spheroidal galaxies, using spectral information from 16 energy bins. We perform this analysis using our updated and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-05-30 Kimberly K. Boddy , Zachary J. Carter , Jason Kumar , Luis Rufino , Pearl Sandick , Natalia Tapia-Arellano

Dark matter (DM) is one of the major components in the Universe. However, at present its existence is still only inferred through indirect astronomical observations. DM particles can annihilate or decay, producing final-state Standard Model…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-09-19 Francesco Gabriele Saturni , Michele Doro , Aldo Morselli , Gonzalo Rodríguez-Fernández

We report on the observations of 14 dwarf spheroidal galaxies with the Fermi Gamma-Ray Space Telescope taken during the first 11 months of survey mode operations. The Fermi telescope provides a new opportunity to test particle dark matter…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-17 LAT Collaboration , A. A. Abdo , M. Ackermann , M. Ajello , W. B. Atwood , L. Baldini , J. Ballet , G. Barbiellini , D. Bastieri , K. Bechtol , R. Bellazzini , B. Berenji , E. D. Bloom , E. Bonamente , A. W. Borgland , J. Bregeon , A. Brez , M. Brigida , P. Bruel , T. H. Burnett , S. Buson , G. A. Caliandro , R. A. Cameron , P. A. Caraveo , J. M. Casandjian , C. Cecchi , A. Chekhtman , C. C. Cheung , J. Chiang , S. Ciprini , R. Claus , J. Cohen-Tanugi , J. Conrad , A. de Angelis , F. de Palma , S. W. Digel , E. do Couto e Silva , P. S. Drell , A. Drlica-Wagner , R. Dubois , D. Dumora , C. Farnier , C. Favuzzi , S. J. Fegan , W. B. Focke , P. Fortin , M. Frailis , Y. Fukazawa , P. Fusco , F. Gargano , N. Gehrels , S. Germani , B. Giebels , N. Giglietto , F. Giordano , T. Glanzman , G. Godfrey , I. A. Grenier , J. E. Grove , L. Guillemot , S. Guiriec , M. Gustafsson , A. K. Harding , E. Hays , D. Horan , R. E. Hughes , M. S. Jackson , T. E. Jeltema , G. Johannesson , A. S. Johnson , R. P. Johnson , W. N. Johnson , T. Kamae , H. Katagiri , J. Kataoka , M. Kerr , J. Knodlseder , M. Kuss , J. Lande , L. Latronico , M. Lemoine-Goumard , F. Longo , F. Loparco , B. Lott , M. N. Lovellette , P. Lubrano , G. M. Madejski , A. Makeev , M. N. Mazziotta , J. E. McEnery , C. Meurer , P. F. Michelson , W. Mitthumsiri , T. Mizuno , A. A. Moiseev , C. Monte , M. E. Monzani , E. Moretti , 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 , T. A. Porter , S. Profumo , S. Raino , R. Rando , M. Razzano , A. Reimer , O. Reimer , T. Reposeur , S. Ritz , A. Y. Rodriguez , M. Roth , H. F. -W. Sadrozinski , A. Sander , P. M. Saz Parkinson , J. D. Scargle , T. L. Schalk , A. Sellerholm , C. Sgro , E. J. Siskind , D. A. Smith , P. D. Smith , G. Spandre , P. Spinelli , M. S. Strickman , D. J. Suson , H. Takahashi , T. Takahashi , T. Tanaka , J. B. Thayer , J. G. Thayer , D. J. Thompson , L. Tibaldo , D. F. Torres , A. Tramacere , Y. Uchiyama , T. L. Usher , V. Vasileiou , N. Vilchez , V. Vitale , A. P. Waite , P. Wang , B. L. Winer , K. S. Wood , T. Ylinen , M. Ziegler , James S. Bullock , Manoj Kaplinghat , Gregory D. Martinez

Stellar streams are remnants of globular clusters or dwarf galaxies that have been tidally disrupted by the gravitational potential of their host galaxy. Streams originating from dwarfs can be particularly compelling targets for indirect…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-02-24 Cristina Fernandez-Suarez , Miguel A. Sanchez-Conde

The diffuse gamma ray emission from astrophysical backgrounds in our Galaxy and the signal due to the annihilation or decay of Dark Matter (DM) in the Galactic Halo are expected to have a substantially different morphology and spectral…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-14 Gabrijela Zaharijas , Alessandro Cuoco , Zhaoyu Yang , Jan Conrad

A possible hint of dark matter annihilation has been found in Cuoco, Korsmeier and Kr\"amer (2017) from an analysis of recent cosmic-ray antiproton data from AMS-02 and taking into account cosmic-ray propagation uncertainties by fitting at…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-11-07 Alessandro Cuoco , Jan Heisig , Michael Korsmeier , Michael Krämer

The dark matter halo of the Milky Way is predicted to contain a very large number of smaller subhalos. As a result of the dark matter annihilations taking place within such objects, the most nearby and massive subhalos could appear as…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-01-22 Asher Berlin , Dan Hooper

The observation of a gamma-ray line in the cosmic-ray fluxes would be a smoking-gun signature for dark matter annihilation or decay in the Universe. We present an improved search for such signatures in the data of the Fermi Large Area…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2012-08-09 Christoph Weniger

Upcoming $\gamma$-ray satellites will search for Dark Matter annihilations in Milky Way substructures (or 'clumps'). The prospects for detecting these objects strongly depend on the assumptions made on the distribution of Dark Matter in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 L. Pieri , G. Bertone , E Branchini

The very large (100-1000) mass-to-light ratio applicable to the ultra-faint dwarf galaxies (UFDs) implies a high concentration of dark matter, thus rendering them ideal theatres for indirect signatures of dark matter. In this paper, we…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-07-12 Pooja Bhattacharjee , Debajyoti Choudhury , Kasinath Das , Dilip Kumar Ghosh , Pratik Majumdar

We study the abilities of the Fermi-LAT instrument on board of the Fermi mission to simultaneously constrain the Milky Way dark matter density profile and some dark matter particle properties, as annihilation cross section, mass and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-27 Nicolas Bernal , Sergio Palomares-Ruiz

We forecast parameter uncertainties on the mass profile of a typical Milky Way dwarf spheroidal (dSph) galaxy using the spherical Jeans Equation and Fisher matrix formalism. We show that radial velocity measurements for 1000 individual…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-12-13 Juan Guerra , Marla Geha , Louis E. Strigari

The Milky Way halo is the brightest source of dark matter annihilation on the sky. Indeed, the potential strength of the Galactic dark matter signal can supersede that expected from dwarf galaxies and galaxy groups even in regions away from…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-12-20 Laura J. Chang , Mariangela Lisanti , Siddharth Mishra-Sharma

We use 413 weeks of publicly-available $\textit{Fermi}$ Pass 8 gamma-ray data, combined with recently-developed galaxy group catalogs, to search for evidence of dark matter annihilation in extragalactic halos. In our study, we use…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-05-07 Mariangela Lisanti , Siddharth Mishra-Sharma , Nicholas L. Rodd , Benjamin R. Safdi

If the gamma-ray excess from the galactic center reported by Fermi-LAT is a signal from annihilating dark matter, one must question why a similar excess has not been observed in dwarf spheroidal galaxies. We use this observation to place…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-03-07 Jeremie Choquette

Dwarf spheroidals are low-luminosity satellite galaxies of the Milky Way highly dominated by dark matter (DM). Therefore, they are prime targets to search for signals from dark matter annihilation using gamma-ray observations. While the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-07-07 Niki Klop , Fabio Zandanel , Kohei Hayashi , Shin'ichiro Ando

It is widely established that a lower bound on the dark matter particle mass, $m$, can be obtained by demanding that the de Broglie wavelength in a given galaxy must be smaller than the virial radius of the galaxy, leading to $m\gtrsim…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-28 Tim Zimmermann , James Alvey , David J. E. Marsh , Malcolm Fairbairn , Justin I. Read

We have performed an analysis of the diffuse gamma-ray emission with the Fermi Large Area Telescope in the Milky Way Halo region searching for a signal from dark matter annihilation or decay. In the absence of a robust dark matter signal,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-01-15 LAT collaboration , M. Ackermann , M. Ajello , W. B. Atwood , L. Baldini , G. Barbiellini , D. Bastieri , K. Bechtol , R. Bellazzini , R. D. Blandford , E. D. Bloom , E. Bonamente , A. W. Borgland , E. Bottacini , T. J. Brandt , J. Bregeon , M. Brigida , P. Bruel , R. Buehler , S. Buson , G. A. Caliandro , R. A. Cameron , P. A. Caraveo , J. M. Casandjian , C. Cecchi , E. Charles , A. Chekhtman , J. Chiang , S. Ciprini , R. Claus , J. Cohen-Tanugi , J. Conrad , A. Cuoco , S. Cutini , F. D'Ammando , A. de Angelis , F. de Palma , C. D. Dermer , E. do Couto e Silva , P. S. Drell , A. Drlica-Wagner , L. Falletti , C. Favuzzi , S. J. Fegan , W. B. Focke , Y. Fukazawa , S. Funk , P. Fusco , F. Gargano , D. Gasparrini , S. Germani , N. Giglietto , F. Giordano , M. Giroletti , T. Glanzman , G. Godfrey , I. A. Grenier , S. Guiriec , M. Gustafsson , D. Hadasch , M. Hayashida , D. Horan , R. E. Hughes , M. S. Jackson , T. Jogler , G. Jóhannesson , A. S. Johnson , T. Kamae , J. Knödlseder , M. Kuss , J. Lande , L. Latronico , A. M. Lionetto , M. Llena Garde , F. Longo , F. Loparco , B. Lott , M. N. Lovellette , P. Lubrano , M. N. Mazziotta , J. E. McEnery , J. Mehault , P. F. Michelson , W. Mitthumsiri , T. Mizuno , A. A. Moiseev , C. Monte , M. E. Monzani , A. Morselli , I. V. Moskalenko , S. Murgia , M. Naumann-Godo , J. P. Norris , E. Nuss , T. Ohsugi , M. Orienti , E. Orlando , J. F. Ormes , D. Paneque , J. H. Panetta , M. Pesce-Rollins , M. Pierbattista , F. Piron , G. Pivato , H. Poon , S. Rainò , R. Rando , M. Razzano , S. Razzaque , A. Reimer , O. Reimer , C. Romoli , C. Sbarra , J. D. Scargle , C. Sgrò , E. J. Siskind , G. Spandre , P. Spinelli , Łukasz Stawarz , A. W. Strong , D. J. Suson , H. Tajima , H. Takahashi , T. Tanaka , J. G. Thayer , J. B. Thayer , L. Tibaldo , M. Tinivella , G. Tosti , E. Troja , T. L. Usher , J. Vandenbroucke , V. Vasileiou , G. Vianello , V. Vitale , A. P. Waite , E. Wallace , K. S. Wood , M. Wood , Z. Yang , G. Zaharijas , S. Zimmer

Dark matter mass density profiles and velocity distributions for a set of dwarf spheroidal galaxies (dSphs) have recently been obtained (F.Bezrukov, D.Gorbunov, E.Koreshkova arXiv:2412.20585) by performing a multi-parametric fit to the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-09-12 Fedor Bezrukov , Dmitry Gorbunov , Ekaterina Koreshkova

The Galactic Center region is expected to host the largest density of Dark Matter (DM) particles within the Milky Way. Then a relatively large gamma-ray signal would be expected from the possible DM particles annihilation (or decay). We are…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-14 Vincenzo Vitale , Aldo Morselli