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If the unidentified emission line at ~3.55 keV previously found in spectra of nearby galaxies and galaxy clusters is due to radiatively decaying dark matter, one should detect the signal of comparable strength from many cosmic objects of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-08-26 Dmytro Iakubovskyi , Esra Bulbul , Adam R. Foster , Denys Savchenko , Valentyna Sadova

Context. Recent findings of line emission at 3.5 keV in both individual and stacked X-ray spectra of galaxy clusters have been speculated to have dark matter origin. Aims. If the origin is indeed dark matter, the emission line is expected…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-05-18 Signe Riemer-Sorensen

Astrophysical emission lines arising from particle decays can offer unique insights into the nature of dark matter (DM). Using dedicated simulations with background and foreground modeling, we comprehensively demonstrate that the recently…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-12-06 Yu Zhou , Volodymyr Takhistov , Kazuhisa Mitsuda

We have conducted N-body simulations of the growth of Milky Way-sized halos in cold and warm dark matter cosmologies. The number of dark matter satellites in our simulated Milky Ways decreases with decreasing mass of the dark matter…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-03-30 Emil Polisensky , Massimo Ricotti

We present results of a search for the 3.5 keV emission line in our recent very long (~ 1.4 Ms) XMM-Newton observation of the Draco dwarf spheroidal galaxy. The astrophysical X-ray emission from such dark matter-dominated galaxies is faint,…

In the indirect detection of dark matter through its annihilation products, the signals depend on the square of the dark matter density, making precise knowledge of the distribution of dark matter in the Universe critical for robust…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Hasan Yuksel , Shunsaku Horiuchi , John F. Beacom , Shin'ichiro Ando

We present a search for sterile neutrino dark matter decay signals in the Milky Way's dark matter halo by considering the entirety of the Swift-XRT data archive. After filtering the raw archive, we analyze a $\sim$77 Ms data set containing…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-12-14 Dominic Sicilian , Dannell Lopez , Massimo Moscetti , Esra Bulbul , Nico Cappelluti

The presence of dark matter in the Universe is nowadays widely supported by a large body of astronomical and cosmological observations. The central region of the Milky Way is expected to harbor a large amount of dark matter.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-14 Lucia Rinchiuso , Emmanuel Moulin

Previous detections of an X-ray emission line near 3.5 keV in galaxy clusters and other dark matter-dominated objects have been interpreted as observational evidence for the decay of sterile neutrino dark matter. Motivated by this, we…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-09-15 E. M. Silich , K. Jahoda , L. Angelini , P. Kaaret , A. Zajczyk , D. M. LaRocca , R. Ringuette , J. Richardson

The recent discovery of unexplained X-ray line of $3.5-3.6$ keV emitted from the Perseus cluster of galaxies and M31 and the excess X-ray line of $8.7$ keV emitted from the Milky Way center may indicate that dark matter would decay. In this…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-04-07 Man Ho Chan

Space-based instruments provide new and, in some cases, unique opportunities to search for dark matter. In particular, if dark matter comprises sterile neutrinos, the x ray detection of their decay line is the most promising strategy for…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Alexander Kusenko

We propose a new approach to search for light dark matter (DM), with keV-GeV mass, via inelastic nucleus scattering at large-volume neutrino detectors such as Borexino, DUNE, Super-K, Hyper-K, and JUNO. The approach uses inelastic nuclear…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-10-21 Bhaskar Dutta , Wei-Chih Huang , Doojin Kim , Jayden L. Newstead , Jong-Chul Park , Iman Shaukat Ali

The central region of the dark matter halo of the Milky Way is a promising target for a search for a particle dark matter annihilation signal. The H.E.S.S. Collaboration has published a search for a photon flux originating from dark matter…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-03-06 Gerrit Spengler , Ullrich Schwanke

The nature of dark matter is a longstanding mystery in cosmology, which can be studied with laboratory or collider experiments, as well as astrophysical and cosmological observations. In this work, we propose realistic and efficient…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-04-15 José Luis Bernal , Andrea Caputo , Marc Kamionkowski

We present constraints on decaying and annihilating dark matter (DM) in the 4 keV to 10 GeV mass range, using published results from the satellites HEAO-1, INTEGRAL, COMPTEL, EGRET, and the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope. We derive…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-17 Rouven Essig , Eric Kuflik , Samuel D. McDermott , Tomer Volansky , Kathryn M. Zurek

Warm dark matter (WDM) means DM particles with mass m in the keV scale. For large scales, (structures beyond ~ 100 kpc) WDM and CDM yield identical results which agree with observations. For intermediate scales, WDM gives the correct…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-12 H. J. de Vega , N. G. Sanchez

We present a new inelastic dark matter search: neutron stars in dark matter-rich environments capture inelastic dark matter which, for interstate mass splittings between about $45 - 285 \ \rm MeV$, will annihilate away before becoming fully…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-04-17 Javier F. Acevedo , Joseph Bramante , Qinrui Liu , Narayani Tyagi

We detect a line at 3.539 +/- 0.011 keV in the deep exposure dataset of the Galactic Center region, observed with the XMM-Newton. The dark matter interpretation of the signal observed in the Perseus galaxy cluster, the Andromeda galaxy…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-10-21 Alexey Boyarsky , Jeroen Franse , Dmytro Iakubovskyi , Oleg Ruchayskiy