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We present the results of a new, non-parametric method to reconstruct the Galactic dark matter profile directly from observations. Using the latest kinematic data to track the total gravitational potential and the observed distribution of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-07 Miguel Pato , Fabio Iocco

The region around the Galactic center (GC) is now well established to be brighter at energies of a few GeV than expected from conventional models of diffuse gamma-ray emission and catalogs of known gamma-ray sources. We study the GeV excess…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-06-27 LAT Collaboration

Recently, a preliminary spectrum from the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope has been presented for the inner galaxy (-30 < l < 30, -5 < b < 5), as well as the galactic center (-1 < l < 1, -1< b < 1). We consider the implications of these data…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2009-07-29 Ilias Cholis , Gregory Dobler , Douglas P. Finkbeiner , Lisa Goodenough , Tracy R. Slatyer , Neal Weiner

Fermi-LAT observations of the Galactic Center (GC) have revealed a spherically- symmetric excess of GeV gamma rays extending to at least 10 deg from the dynamical center of the Galaxy. A critical uncertainty in extracting the intensity,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-09-14 Eric Carlson , Tim Linden , Stefano Profumo

We study the gamma rays observed by the Fermi Gamma Ray Space Telescope from the direction of the Galactic Center and find that their angular distribution and energy spectrum are well described by a dark matter annihilation scenario. In…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-11 Lisa Goodenough , Dan Hooper

The extragalactic gamma-ray and neutrino emission may have a contribution from dark matter (DM) annihilations. In the case of discrepancies between observations and standard predictions, one could infer the DM pair annihilation cross…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-09-07 Ángeles Moliné , Jascha A. Schewtschenko , Sergio Palomares-Ruiz , Celine Boehm , Carlton M. Baugh

While dark matter (DM) is the key ingredient for a successful theory of structure formation, its microscopic nature remains elusive. Indirect detection may provide a powerful test for some strongly motivated DM particle models.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2012-11-05 Emmanuel Nezri , Julien Lavalle , Romain Teyssier

Aims. We use 5 years of Fermi-LAT data towards the Galactic-centre giant molecular cloud complex, Sagittarius B, to test questions of how well-mixed the Galactic component of cosmic rays are and what the level of the cosmic-ray sea in…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-08-12 Rui-zhi Yang , David I. Jones , Felix Aharonian

We derive constraints on dark matter (DM) annihilation cross section and decay lifetime from cross-correlation analyses of the data from Fermi-LAT and weak lensing surveys that cover a wide area of $\sim660$ squared degrees in total. We…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-09-29 Masato Shirasaki , Oscar Macias , Shunsaku Horiuchi , Satoshi Shirai , Naoki Yoshida

The observation of a gamma-ray line in the cosmic-ray fluxes would be a smoking-gun signature for dark matter annihilation or decay in the Universe. We present an improved search for such signatures in the data of the Fermi Large Area…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2012-08-09 Christoph Weniger

The majority of gamma-ray emission from Galactic dark matter annihilation is likely to be detected as a contribution to the diffuse gamma-ray background. I show that dark matter substructure in the halo of the Galaxy induces characteristic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-07-13 Jennifer M. Siegal-Gaskins

Experiments aiming to directly detect dark matter (DM) particles have yet to make robust detections, thus underscoring the need for complementary approaches such as searches for new particles at colliders, and indirect DM searches in…

Gravitational lensing deflects the paths of cosmic infrared background (CIB) photons, leaving a measurable imprint on CIB maps. The resulting statistical anisotropy can be used to reconstruct the matter distribution out to the redshifts of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-07-04 Emmanuel Schaan , Simone Ferraro , David N. Spergel

The Fermi-LAT collaboration has recently reported the detection of angular power above the photon noise level in the diffuse gamma-ray background between 1 and 50 GeV. Such signal can be used to constrain a possible contribution from…

The total extragalactic $\gamma$-ray flux provides a powerful probe into the origin and evolution of the highest energy processes in our universe. An important component of this emission is the isotropic $\gamma$-ray background (IGRB),…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-02-08 Carlos Blanco , Tim Linden

An Isotropic Diffuse Gamma-Ray Background (IDGRB) in the spectral range 30-10,000 MeV was first reported in the early 1970's using measurements made by the SAS-2 instrument. Data recorded by the Energetic Gamma Ray Experiment Telescope…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 T. D. Willis

We evaluate the contribution to the Isotropic Gamma-Ray Background (IGRB) coming from Radio Galaxies (RGs), the subclass of radio-loud Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) with the highest misalignment from the line of sight (l.o.s.). Since only a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-10-08 A. Circiello , A. McDaniel , M. Di Mauro , C. Karwin , N. Khatiya , M. Ajello , F. Donato , D. Hartmann , A. Strong

In principle, the angular anisotropy in the extragalactic gamma-ray background (EGRB) places severe constraints upon putative populations of unresolved gamma-ray point sources. Existing estimates of the EGRB anisotropy have been constructed…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-03-02 Avery E. Broderick , Christoph Pfrommer , Ewald Puchwein , Philip Chang , Kendrick M. Smith

Motivated by the PAMELA anomaly in the fluxes of cosmic-ray positron and electron, we study the cosmic gamma-ray induced by the inverse Compton (IC) scattering process in unstable dark matter scenario assuming that the anomaly is due to the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-05-14 Koji Ishiwata , Shigeki Matsumoto , Takeo Moroi

We present an extensive analysis on the determination of the isotropic radio background. We consider six different radio maps, ranging from 22 MHz to 2.3 GHz and covering a large fraction of the sky. The large scale emission is modeled as a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-18 Nicolao Fornengo , Roberto A. Lineros , Marco Regis , Marco Taoso