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The energy-dependence of the anisotropy (the anisotropy energy spectrum) of the large-scale diffuse gamma-ray background can reveal the presence of multiple source populations. Annihilating dark matter in the substructure of the Milky Way…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-20 Brandon S. Hensley , Jennifer M. Siegal-Gaskins , Vasiliki Pavlidou

We update our earlier calculations of gamma ray and radio observational constraints on annihilations of dark matter particles lighter than 10 GeV. We predict the synchrotron spectrum as well as the morphology of the radio emission…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2010-10-01 Celine Boehm , Joseph Silk , Torsten Ensslin

Observations of the Galactic center region with the H.E.S.S. telescopes have established the existence of a steady, extended source of gamma-ray emission coinciding with the position of the super massive black hole Sgr A*. This is a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 D. Horns

Gamma-ray lines constitute a smoking gun signature for annihilating dark matter particles. Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescopes and satellites have searched for such signals but null results have been reported thus far. We take…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-09-11 Lucia Angel , Debasish Borah , Jacinto P. Neto , Farinaldo S. Queiroz , Vitor de Souza

Observational evidence for dark matter stems from its gravitational interactions, and as of yet there has been no evidence for dark matter interacting via other means. We examine models where dark matter interactions are purely…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-11-22 Thomas D. Rueter , Thomas G. Rizzo , JoAnne L. Hewett

Constraints on dark matter annihilation or decay offer unique insights into the nature of dark matter. We illustrate how surveys dedicated to detect the highly redshifted 21 cm signal from the dark ages will offer a new window into…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-07-22 Katie Short , José Luis Bernal , Alvise Raccanelli , Licia Verde , Jens Chluba

We discuss the possibility of identification of point-like gamma-ray sources (PGS) with small scale dark matter (DM) clumps in our Galaxy. Gamma-rays are supposed to originate from annihilation of DM particles in the clumps, where…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-04-09 K. M. Belotsky , A. A. Kirillov , M. Yu. Khlopov

High-energy photons from dark matter annihilation contribute to the cosmic gamma-ray background (CGB). Since dark matter particles are weakly interacting, annihilation can happen only in high density regions such as dark matter halos. The…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Shin'ichiro Ando , Eiichiro Komatsu

Recent indirect searches of dark matter using gamma-ray, radio, and cosmic-ray data have provided some stringent constraints on annihilating dark matter. In this article, we propose a new indirect method to constrain annihilating dark…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-09-12 Man Ho Chan , Chak Man Lee

Dark matter (DM) annihilation could in principle contribute to the diffuse cosmic gamma-ray back- ground (CGB). While with standard assumptions for cosmological and particle physics parameters this contribution is expected to be rather…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-04-30 Marco Taoso , Shin'ichiro Ando , Gianfranco Bertone , Stefano Profumo

Searches for dark matter annihilation signals in the diffuse gamma-ray background are promising. We present the first comprehensive study utilizing both flux and anisotropy, using the example of a spectral line signal. Besides improving…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-12-17 Sheldon S. Campbell , John F. Beacom

Although the emission of radiation from dark matter annihilation is expected to be maximized at the Galactic Center, geometric factors and the presence of point-like and diffuse backgrounds make the choice of the angular window size to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Pasquale D. Serpico , Gabrijela Zaharijas

A commonly encountered obstacle in indirect searches for galactic dark matter is how to disentangle possible signals from astrophysical backgrounds. Given that such signals are most likely subdominant, the search for pronounced spectral…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-03-20 Torsten Bringmann , Xiaoyuan Huang , Alejandro Ibarra , Stefan Vogl , Christoph Weniger

We calculate the continuum photon spectrum from the pair annihilation of a Z^1 LKP in non-minimal universal extra dimensions. We find that, due to the preferred annihilation into W^+ W^- pairs, the continuum flux of collinear photons is…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2012-07-06 Henrik Melbeus , Alexander Merle , Tommy Ohlsson

Most proposed dark matter candidates are stable and are produced thermally in the early Universe. However, there is also the possibility of unstable (but long-lived) dark matter, produced thermally or otherwise. We propose a strategy to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-13 Sergio Palomares-Ruiz , Jennifer M. Siegal-Gaskins

Dark matter may be charged under dark electromagnetism with a dark photon that kinetically mixes with the Standard Model photon. In this framework, dark matter will collect at the center of the Earth and annihilate into dark photons, which…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-10-05 Jonathan L. Feng , Jordan Smolinsky , Philip Tanedo

The first published Fermi large area telescope (Fermi-LAT) measurement of the isotropic diffuse gamma-ray emission is in good agreement with a single power law, and is not showing any signature of a dominant contribution from dark matter…

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I give a brief review of high energy gamma-ray signatures of dark matter. The decay of massive $X$-particles and subsequent hadronization have been suggested as the origin of the highest energy cosmic rays. Propagation over cosmological…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 R. J. Protheroe

Recent gamma-ray and radio studies have obtained some stringent constraints on annihilating dark matter properties. However, only a few studies have focussed on using X-ray data to constrain annihilating dark matter. In this article, we…

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

A very general cosmological consideration suggests that, along with galactic dark matter halos, much smaller dark matter structures may exist. These structures are usually called 'clumps', and their mass extends to $10^{-6} M_\odot$ or even…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-01-20 Anton N. Baushev