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In this paper we study the possibility of detecting gamma rays from dark matter annihilation in the subhalos of the Milky Way by the ground based EAS detectors within the frame of the minimal supersymmetric standard model. Based on the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 X. -J. Bi , Y. -Q. Guo , H. -B. Hu , X. Zhang

Numerous simulations indicate that a large number of subhalos should be hosted by the Milky Way. The potential existence of a nearby subhalo could have important implications for our understanding of dark matter (DM) annihilation. In this…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-09-20 Yi Zhao , Xiao-Jun Bi , Su-Jie Lin , Peng-Fei Yin

We study the prospects for detecting the annihilation products of Dark Matter [DM] in the framework of the two highest-resolution numerical simulations currently available, i.e. {\it Via Lactea II} and {\it Aquarius}. We propose a strategy…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2011-02-01 Lidia Pieri , Julien Lavalle , Gianfranco Bertone , Enzo Branchini

We study the imprint of dark matter (DM) annihilation on the global 21 cm signal from the Dark Ages to Cosmic Reionization. Motivated by recent observations, we focus on three DM candidates: (i) a 10 GeV Bino-like neutralino (ii) a 200 GeV…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-04-16 Marcos Valdés , Carmelo Evoli , Andrei Mesinger , Andrea Ferrara , Naoki Yoshida

Gamma-ray observations have long been used to constrain the properties of dark matter (DM), with a strong focus on weakly interacting massive particles annihilating through velocity-independent processes. However, in the absence of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-10-11 Thomas Lacroix , Gaétan Facchinetti , Judit Pérez-Romero , Martin Stref , Julien Lavalle , David Maurin , Miguel A. Sánchez-Conde

This study reanalyzes the detection prospects of dark matter (DM) annihilation signals in the Galactic Center, focusing on velocity-dependent dynamics within a spike density near the supermassive black hole (Sgr~A$^{\star}$). We investigate…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-10-25 MeiWen Yang , Zhi-Qi Guo , Xiao-Yi Luo , Zhao-Qiang Shen , Zi-Qing Xia , Chih-Ting Lu , Yue-Lin Sming Tsai , Yi-Zhong Fan

In this work, we investigate a decaying dark matter scenario and its associated indirect detection signatures. The model consists of a scalar singlet with a lifetime exceeding the age of the Universe. Stability is ensured by a $Z_2$…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-04-23 A. Carrillo-Monteverde , L. López-Lozano , F. San Juan-Villegas

If dark matter consists of weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs), dark matter subhalos in the Milky Way could be detectable as gamma-ray point sources due to WIMP annihilation. In this work, we perform an updated study of the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-05-25 Djoeke Schoonenberg , Jennifer Gaskins , Gianfranco Bertone , Jürg Diemand

High resolution simulations reveal that in the cold dark matter scenario the structures form hierarchically and a large number of substructures survive in the galactic halos. The substructures can be probed if they emit gamma rays via dark…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Xiao-Jun Bi

Rates for detection of weakly-interacting massive-particle (WIMP) dark matter are usually carried out assuming the Milky Way halo is an isothermal sphere. However, it is possible that our halo is not precisely spherical; it may have some…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-11-30 Marc Kamionkowski , Ali Kinkhabwala

The detection of non-baryonic dark matter through its gamma-ray annihilation in the centre of our galaxy has been studied. The gamma fluxes according to different models have been simulated and compared to those expected to be observed with…

Annihilation of cosmologically distributed dark matter is predicted to produce a potentially observable flux of high energy photons. Neglecting the contribution from local structure, this signal is predicted to be virtually uniform on the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2009-12-10 Scott Dodelson , Alexander V. Belikov , Dan Hooper , Pasquale Serpico

We for the first time provide self-consistent axisymmetric phase-space distribution models for the Milky Way's dark matter (DM) halo which are carefully matched against the latest kinematic measurements through Bayesian analysis. By using…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-01-04 Mihael Petac

Recent discoveries of optical signatures of black holes in dwarf galaxies indicates that low-mass galaxies can indeed host intermediate massive black holes. This motivates the assessment of the resulting effect on the host dark matter…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-19 Alma X. Gonzalez-Morales , Stefano Profumo , Farinaldo S. Queiroz

High energy ${\gamma}$-rays are powerful probes in the search for annihilations of dark matter (DM) par- ticles in dense environments. In several DM particle models their annihilation produces characteristic features such as lines, bumps or…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-15 Louise Oakes , Aion Viana , Emmanuel Moulin , Lucia Rinchiuso , Ullrich Schwanke , Marco Cirelli , Paolo Panci , Filippo Sala , Joseph Silk , Marco Taoso

We study the effect of baryonic processes on the shapes of dark matter (DM) haloes from Illustris, a suite of hydrodynamical (Illustris) and DM-only (Illustris-Dark) cosmological simulations performed with the moving-mesh code {\sc arepo}.…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-01-16 Kunting Eddie Chua , Annalisa Pillepich , Mark Vogelsberger , Lars Hernquist

We search for a dark matter signal in 11 years of Fermi-LAT gamma-ray data from 27 Milky Way dwarf spheroidal galaxies with spectroscopically measured $J$-factors. Our analysis includes uncertainties in $J$-factors and background…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-11-13 Sebastian Hoof , Alex Geringer-Sameth , Roberto Trotta

We use FIRE-2 zoom cosmological simulations of Milky Way size galaxy halos to characterize the shape of the J-factor emission signal on the sky. We find that, at a fixed dJ/d{\Omega} contour,the shape is well-fit by an ellipse, with…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-06-23 Daniel McKeown

Simulations are expected to be the powerful tool to investigate the baryon effects on dark matter (DM) halos. Recent high resolution, cosmological hydrodynamic simulations (\citealt{Cintio14}, DC14) predict that the inner density profiles…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-08-09 Lin Wang , Da-Ming Chen , Ran Li

The predicted abundance and properties of the low-mass substructures embedded inside larger dark matter haloes differ sharply among alternative dark matter models. Too small to host galaxies themselves, these subhaloes may still be detected…