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Clusters of galaxies are potentially important targets for indirect searches for dark matter annihilation. Here we reassess the detection prospects for annihilation in massive halos, based on a statistical investigation of 1743 clusters in…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2012-08-29 E. Nezri , R. White , C. Combet , J. A. Hinton , D. Maurin , E. Pointecouteau

We consider gamma-ray signals of dark matter annihilation in extragalactic halos in the case where dark matter annihilates from a $p$-wave or $d$-wave state. In these scenarios, signals from extragalactic halos are enhanced relative to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-09-19 Eric J. Baxter , Jason Kumar , Aleczander D. Paul , Jack Runburg

We use 413 weeks of publicly-available $\textit{Fermi}$ Pass 8 gamma-ray data, combined with recently-developed galaxy group catalogs, to search for evidence of dark matter annihilation in extragalactic halos. In our study, we use…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-05-07 Mariangela Lisanti , Siddharth Mishra-Sharma , Nicholas L. Rodd , Benjamin R. Safdi

Gamma-ray searches for dark matter annihilation and decay in dwarf galaxies rely on an understanding of the dark matter density profiles of these systems. Conversely, uncertainties in these density profiles propagate into the derived…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-12 Alex Geringer-Sameth , Savvas M. Koushiappas , Matthew Walker

The Milky Way's dark matter halo is expected to host numerous low-mass subhalos with no detectable associated stellar component. Such subhalos are invisible unless their dark matter annihilates to visible states such as photons. One of the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-01-13 Jean J. Somalwar , Laura J. Chang , Siddharth Mishra-Sharma , Mariangela Lisanti

We are at the dawn of a data-driven era in astrophysics and cosmology. A large number of ongoing and forthcoming experiments combined with an increasingly open approach to data availability offer great potential in unlocking some of the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-09-14 Siddharth Mishra-Sharma

If dark matter is composed of neutralinos, the gamma-ray radiation produced in their annihilation offers an attractive possibility for dark matter detection. This process may contribute significantly to the extragalactic gamma-ray…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-01-20 Jesus Zavala , Volker Springel , Michael Boylan-Kolchin

If dark matter is composed of neutralinos, one of the most exciting prospects for its detection lies in observations of the gamma-ray radiation created in pair annihilations between neutralinos, a process that may contribute significantly…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-12-08 Jesus Zavala , Volker Springel , Michael Boylan-Kolchin

Galaxy clusters are promising targets for indirect dark matter searches. Gamma-ray signatures from the decay or annihilation of dark matter particles inside these clusters could be observable with the Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT). Based…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-05-30 Xiaoyuan Huang , Gilles Vertongen , Christoph Weniger

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

Annihilation of dark matter can result in the production of stable Standard Model particles including electrons and positrons that, in the presence of magnetic fields, lose energy via synchrotron radiation, observable as radio emission.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 Emma Storm , Tesla E. Jeltema , Stefano Profumo , Lawrence Rudnick

The excess above 1 GeV in the energy spectrum of the diffuse Galactic gamma radiation, measured with the EGRET experiment, can be interpreted as the annihilation of Dark Matter (DM) particles. The DM is distributed in a halo around the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-10-29 Markus Weber

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

Annihilations of weakly interacting dark matter particles provide an important signature for the possibility of indirect detection of dark matter in galaxy halos. These self-annihilations can be greatly enhanced in the vicinity of a massive…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 G. Bertone , G. Sigl , J. Silk

Previous searches for the $\gamma$-ray signatures of annihilating galactic dark matter used predefined spatial templates to describe the background of $\gamma$-ray emission from astrophysical processes like cosmic ray interactions. In this…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-04-25 Xiaoyuan Huang , Torsten Enßlin , Marco Selig

The presence of dark matter in the universe is nowadays supported by a substantial set of astronomical and cosmological observations. A large amount of dark matter is expected in the Galactic Center (GC) region. Thanks also to its…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-09-22 V. Lefranc , E. Moulin

The presence of dark matter in the Universe is nowadays widely supported by a large body of astronomical and cosmological observations. One of the best targets to look for dark matter particle self-annihilation into very high energy…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-14 V. Lefranc , E. Moulin

For nearly a century, more mass has been measured in galaxies than is contained in the luminous stars and gas. Through continual advances in observations and theory, it has become clear that the dark matter in galaxies is not comprised of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 Louis E. Strigari

Individual extragalactic dark matter halos, such as those associated with nearby galaxies and galaxy clusters, are promising targets for searches for gamma-rays from dark matter annihilation. We review the predictions for the annihilation…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-08-22 Chiamaka Okoli , James E. Taylor , Niayesh Afshordi

We present quantitative predictions for the detectability of individual Galactic dark matter subhalos in gamma-rays from dark matter pair annihilations in their centers. Our method is based on a hybrid approach, employing the highest…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Michael Kuhlen , Jürg Diemand , Piero Madau
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