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We improve the earlier restrictions on parameters of the dark matter (DM) in the form of a sterile neutrino. The results were obtained from non-observing the DM decay line in the X-ray spectrum of the Milky Way (using the recent XMM-Newton…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Alexey Boyarsky , Jukka Nevalainen , Oleg Ruchayskiy

The dwarf spheroidal satellite galaxies (dSphs) of the Milky Way are some of the most dark matter (DM) dominated objects known. We report on gamma-ray observations of Milky Way dSphs based on 6 years of Fermi Large Area Telescope data…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-12-09 LAT Collaboration

Indirect detection experiments typically measure the flux of annihilating dark matter (DM) particles propagating freely through galactic halos. We consider a new scenario where celestial bodies "focus" DM annihilation events, increasing the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-05-05 Rebecca K. Leane , Tim Linden , Payel Mukhopadhyay , Natalia Toro

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

The self-annihilation of dark matter particles with mass in the MeV range can produce gamma rays via prompt or secondary radiation. The annihilation rate for such light dark matter particles is however tightly constrained by cosmic…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-10-04 Alma X. Gonzalez-Morales , Stefano Profumo , Javier Reynoso-Córdova

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

Dwarf galaxies are widely believed to be among the best targets for indirect dark matter searches using high-energy gamma rays; and indeed gamma-ray emission from these objects has long been a subject of detailed study for ground-based…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2012-01-27 A. Viana , M. C. Medina , J. Peñarrubia , P. Brun , J. F. Glicenstein , K. Kosack , E. Moulin , M. Naumann-Godo , B. Peyaud

In this article, we report a new signature of dark matter annihilation based on the radio continuum data of NGC 1569 galaxy detected in the past few decades. After eliminating the thermal contribution of the radio signal, an abrupt change…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-06-20 Man Ho Chan

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

Radio data can give stringent constraints for annihilating dark matter. In general, radio observations can detect very accurate radio flux density with high resolution and different frequencies for nearby galaxies. We are able to obtain the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-04-30 Man Ho Chan , Chak Man Lee , Lang Cui , Ning Chang , Chun Sing Leung

To reveal natures of the dark matter (DM) particles, a gamma-ray signal produced in annihilation processes of DM into the standard model particles has been one of the major probes. The cross-correlation between highly DM dominated…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-02-04 Daiki Hashimoto , Atsushi J. Nishizawa , Masahiro Takada

In their recent paper, Chan and Lee discuss an interesting possibility: radio continuum emission from a dwarf irregular galaxy may be used to constrain upper limits on the cross section of annihilating dark matter. They claim that the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-03-17 Volker Heesen , Marcus Brüggen

Dwarf spheroidal galaxies are compact stellar objects with small or negligible astrophysical backgrounds, widely considered as promising targets to search for a signal from the dark matter decay and annihilation. We present constraints on…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-11-17 Oleg Kalashev , Mikhail Kuznetsov , Yana Zhezher

Dwarf spheroidal galaxies are dark matter dominated systems, and as such, ideal for indirect dark matter searches. If dark matter decays into high-energy photons in the dwarf galaxies, they will be a good target for current and future…

Using data recorded with the ANTARES telescope from 2007 to 2015, a new search for dark matter annihilation in the Milky Way has been performed. Three halo models and five annihilation channels, $\rm WIMP + WIMP \to b \bar b, W^+ W^-,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-05-29 A. Albert , M. André , M. Anghinolfi , G. Anton , M. Ardid , J. -J. Aubert , T. Avgitas , B. Baret , J. Barrios-Martí , S. Basa , V. Bertin , S. Biagi , R. Bormuth , S. Bourret , M. C. Bouwhuis , R. Bruijn , J. Brunner , J. Busto , A. Capone , L. Caramete , J. Carr , S. Celli , T. Chiarusi , M. Circella , J. A. B. Coelho , A. Coleiro , R. Coniglione , H. Costantini , P. Coyle , A. Creusot , A. Deschamps , G. De Bonis , C. Distefano , I. Di Palma Donzaud , D. Dornic , D. Drouhin , T. Eberl , I. El Bojaddaini , D. Elsässer , A. Enzenhöfer , I. Felis , L. A. Fusco , S. Galatà , P. Gay , S. Geißelsöder , K. Geyer , V. Giordano , A. Gleixner , H. Glotin , R. Gozzini , T. Grégoire , R. Gracia-Ruiz , K. Graf , S. Hallmann , H. van Haren , A. J. Heijboer , Y. Hello , J. J. Hernández-Rey , J. Hößl , J. Hofestädt , C. Hugon , G. Illuminati , C. W James , M. de Jong , M. Jongen , M. Kadler , O. Kalekin , U. Katz , D. Kießling , A. Kouchner , M. Kreter , I. Kreykenbohm , V. Kulikovskiy , C. Lachaud , R. Lahmann , D. Lefèver , E. Leonora , M. Lotze , S. Loucatos , M. Marcelin , A. Margiotta , A. Marinelli , J. A. Martínez-Mora , A. Mathieu , R. Mele , K. Melis , T. Michael , P. Migliozzi , A. Moussa , C. Mueller , E. Nezri , G. E. Păvălaş , C. Pellegrino , C. Perrina , P. Piattelli , V. Popa , T. Pradier , L. Quinn , C. Racca , G. Riccobene , K. Roensch , A. Sánchez-Losa , M. Saldaña , I. Salvadori , D. F. E. Samtleben , M. Sanguineti , P. Sapienza , J. Schnabel , F. Schüssler , T. Seitz , C. Sieger , M. Spurio , Th. Stolarczyk , M. Taiuti , Y. Tayalati , A. Trovato , M. Tselengidou , D. Turpin , C. Tönnis , B. Vallage , C. Vallée , V. Van Elewyck , D. Vivolo , A. Vizzoca , S. Wagner , J. Wilms , J. D. Zornoza , J. Zúñiga

Using gamma-ray data from observations of the Milky Way, Andromeda (M31), and the cosmic background, we calculate conservative upper limits on the dark matter self-annihilation cross section to a number of final states, over a wide range of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-11-20 T. D. Jacques

We present the first observational limits on the predicted synchrotron signals from particle Dark Matter annihilation models in dwarf spheroidal galaxies at radio frequencies below 1 GHz. We use a combination of survey data from the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-14 Arpan Kar , Sourav Mitra , Biswarup Mukhopadhyaya , Tirthankar Roy Choudhury , Steven Tingay

The Fermi LAT collaboration has recently presented constraints on the gamma-ray signal from annihilating dark matter using separate analyses of a number of dwarf spheroidal galaxies. Since the expected annihilation signal has the same…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2011-03-01 Maja Llena Garde

From 16 years of INTEGRAL/SPI $\gamma$-ray observations, we derive bounds on annihilating light dark matter particles in the halo of the Milky Way up to masses of about 300 MeV. We test four different spatial templates for the dark matter…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-02-29 Thomas Siegert , Francesca Calore , Pasquale Dario Serpico