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Satellite galaxies of the Milky Way with high mass-to-light ratios and little baryon content, i.e. dwarf spheroidal galaxies (dSphs), are among the most promising targets to detect or constrain the nature of dark matter (DM) through its…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-11-28 Mattia Di Mauro , Martin Stref , Francesca Calore

We present an updated analysis of the gamma-ray flux from the directions of classical dwarf spheroidal galaxies, deriving new constraints on WIMP dark matter (DM) annihilation using a decade of Fermi-LAT data. Among the major novelties, we…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-02-15 Alexandre Alvarez , Francesca Calore , Anna Genina , Justin I. Read , Pasquale D. Serpico , Bryan Zaldivar

Fermi-LAT observations have strongly constrained dark matter annihilation through the joint-likelihood analysis of dwarf spheroidal galaxies (dSphs). These constraints are expected to be robust because dSphs have measurable dark matter…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-02-26 Tim Linden

J-factors (or D-factors) describe the distribution of dark matter in an astrophysical system and determine the strength of the signal provided by annihilating (or decaying) dark matter respectively. We provide simple analytic formulae to…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-05-25 N. W. Evans , J. L. Sanders , A. Geringer-Sameth

Dwarf spheroidal (dSph) galaxies are among the most promising targets for the indirect detection of dark matter (DM) from annihilation and/or decay products. Empirical estimates of their DM content - and hence the magnitudes of expected…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-12-15 V. Bonnivard , C. Combet , D. Maurin , M. G. Walker

Milky Way dwarf spheroidal satellites are a prime target for Dark Matter (DM) indirect searches. There have been recent reassessments of the expected DM gamma-ray signals in case of long-range interactions, commonly known as Sommerfeld…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-12-21 Mihael Petac , Piero Ullio , Mauro Valli

The substructures of the Galactic dark matter halo such as dark matter subhalos and dwarf galaxies have very low velocity dispersions, which makes them useful in constraining the scenario of Sommerfeld-enhanced dark matter annihilation. We…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-04-25 Bo-Qiang Lu , Yue-Liang Wu , Wei-Hong Zhang , Yu-Feng Zhou

Measuring the dark matter distribution in dwarf spheroidal galaxies (dSphs) from stellar kinematics is crucial for indirect dark matter searches, as these distributions set the fluxes for both dark matter annihilation (J-Factor) and decay…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-10-31 Andrew B. Pace , Louis E. Strigari

The dwarf spheroidal galaxies (dSphs) satellites of the Milky Way (MW) are nearby astrophysical laboratories to study the nature of dark matter (DM). We present some properties of the DM halos of the three classical dSphs Fornax, Sculptor…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-11-11 Carlo Nipoti , Raffaele Pascale , José María Arroyo-Polonio

Due to a large mass-to-light ratio and low astrophysical backgrounds, dwarf spheroidal galaxies (dSphs) are considered to be one of the most promising targets for dark matter searches via gamma rays. The Fermi LAT Collaboration has recently…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-13 Alex Drlica-Wagner

Due to their proximity, high dark-matter content, and apparent absence of non-thermal processes, Milky Way dwarf spheroidal satellite galaxies (dSphs) are excellent targets for the indirect detection of dark matter. Recently, eight new dSph…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-08-18 LAT Collaboration , The DES Collaboration , A. Drlica-Wagner , A. Albert , K. Bechtol , M. Wood , L. Strigari , M. Sanchez-Conde , L. Baldini , R. Essig , J. Cohen-Tanugi , B. Anderson , R. Bellazzini , E. D. Bloom , R. Caputo , C. Cecchi , E. Charles , J. Chiang , A. de Angelis , S. Funk , P. Fusco , F. Gargano , N. Giglietto , F. Giordano , S. Guiriec , M. Gustafsson , M. Kuss , F. Loparco , P. Lubrano , N. Mirabal , T. Mizuno , A. Morselli , T. Ohsugi , E. Orlando , M. Persic , S. Raino , N. Sehgal , F. Spada , D. J. Suson , G. Zaharijas , S. Zimmer , T. Abbott , S. Allam , E. Balbinot , A. H. Bauer , A. Benoit-Levy , R. A. Bernstein , G. M. Bernstein , E. Bertin , D. Brooks , E. Buckley-Geer , D. L. Burke , A. Carnero Rosell , F. J. Castander , R. Covarrubias , C. B. D'Andrea , L. N. da Costa , D. L. DePoy , S. Desai , H. T. Diehl , C. E Cunha , T. F. Eifler , J. Estrada , A. E. Evrard , A. Fausti Neto , E. Fernandez , D. A. Finley , B. Flaugher , J. Frieman , E. Gaztanaga , D. Gerdes , D. Gruen , R. A. Gruendl , G. Gutierrez , K. Honscheid , B. Jain , D. James , T. Jeltema , S. Kent , R. Kron , K. Kuehn , N. Kuropatkin , O. Lahav , T. S. Li , E. Luque , M. A. G. Maia , M. Makler , M. March , J. Marshall , P. Martini , K. W. Merritt , C. Miller , R. Miquel , J. Mohr , E. Neilsen , B. Nord , R. Ogando , J. Peoples , D. Petravick , A. Pieres , A. A. Plazas , A. Queiroz , A. K. Romer , A. Roodman , E. S. Rykoff , M. Sako , E. Sanchez , B. Santiago , V. Scarpine , M. Schubnell , I. Sevilla , R. C. Smith , M. Soares-Santos , F. Sobreira , E. Suchyta , M. E. C. Swanson , G. Tarle , J. Thaler , D. Thomas , D. Tucker , A. Walker , R. H. Wechsler , W. Wester , P. Williams , B. Yanny , J. Zuntz

The presence of dark matter in the halo of our galaxy could be revealed through indirect detection of annihilation products. Dark matter annihilation is one of the possible interpretations of the recent measured excesses in positron and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-13 Lidia Pieri , Massimiliano Lattanzi , Joseph Silk

Dwarf spheroidal galaxies are excellent targets in gamma-ray searches for dark matter. We consider dark matter searches in dwarf spheroidal galaxies (dSphs) with the Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA). The aim of this work is to reveal a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-07-03 Nagisa Hiroshima , Masaaki Hayashida , Kazunori Kohri

Studies of Fermi-Large Area Telescope (LAT) data coincident with dwarf spheroidal satellite galaxies (dSphs) of the Milky Way (MW) have put the most stringent constraints on models of annihilating dark matter (DM) with candidate masses in…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-05-26 A. Circiello , M. Di Mauro , M. Ajello , C. Karwin , A. Drlica-Wagner , M. Á. Sánchez-Conde

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

Dark matter (DM) subhalos offer critical tests of cosmological models through their abundance and properties, yet most remain undetectable due to their lack of stars. We investigate whether their presence leaves measurable imprints on the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-01-14 Eduardo Vitral , Jorge Peñarrubia , Matthew G. Walker

We study the prospects for the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) to find new dwarf spheroidal galaxies in the Milky Way. Adopting models of Milky-Way halo substructure and phenomenological prescriptions connecting subhalos and…

Very recently the Dark Energy Survey (DES) Collaboration has released their second group of Dwarf spheroidal (dSph) galaxy candidates. With the publicly-available Pass 8 data of Fermi-LAT we search for $\gamma-$ray emissions from the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-03-14 Shang Li , Yun-Feng Liang , Kai-Kai Duan , Zhao-Qiang Shen , Xiaoyuan Huang , Xiang Li , Yi-Zhong Fan , Neng-Hui Liao , Lei Feng , Jin Chang

We present a new formalism designed to discover dark matter annihilation occurring in the Milky Way's dwarf galaxies. The statistical framework extracts all available information in the data by simultaneously combining observations of all…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-04-28 Alex Geringer-Sameth , Savvas M. Koushiappas , Matthew G. Walker

A recent analysis of pulsar timing data has reported evidence for a massive ($\sim 6 \times 10^7 M_{\odot}$) dark matter subhalo located only $\sim 0.8$ kpc from Earth. This candidate implies an exceptionally large $J$-factor of $\sim…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-12-16 Ben-Yang Zhu , Yun-Feng Liang , Xiaoyuan Huang