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Decaying dark matter particles could be indirectly detected as an excess over a simple power law in the energy spectrum of the diffuse extragalactic gamma-ray background. Furthermore, since the Earth is not located at the center of the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-20 Alejandro Ibarra , David Tran , Christoph Weniger

We compare the surface brightness profile and morphology of the Galactic Centre Excess (GCE) identified in wide-angle $\gamma$-ray maps from the Fermi-Large Area Telescope to dark matter annihilation predictions derived from high-resolution…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-02-09 Robert J. J. Grand , Simon D. M. White

We investigate the extent to which the uncertainties associated with the propagation of Galactic cosmic rays impact upon estimates for the gamma-ray flux from the mid-latitude region. We consider contributions from both standard…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2010-11-18 Daniel T. Cumberbatch , Yue-Lin Sming Tsai , Leszek Roszkowski

We perform a detailed study of the sensitivity to the anisotropies related to Dark Matter (DM) annihilation in the Isotropic Gamma-Ray Background (IGRB) as measured by the Fermi Large Area Telescope (Fermi-LAT). For the first time, we take…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2011-09-07 A. Cuoco , A. Sellerholm , J. Conrad , S. Hannestad

High-energetic gamma rays from astrophysical targets constitute a unique probe for annihilation or decay of heavy particle dark matter (DM). After several decades, diverse null detections have resulted in strong constraints for DM particle…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-09-14 Moritz Hütten , Daniel Kerszberg

The origin of the Isotropic Diffuse $\gamma$-Ray Background (IGRB) is one of the most intriguing mystery in astrophysics. Recently the Large Area Telescope (LAT) on board the Fermi Gamma-Ray Space Telescope has measured the IGRB spectrum…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-14 Mattia Di Mauro

The gamma-ray sky has been observed with unprecedented accuracy in the last decade by the Fermi large area telescope (LAT), allowing us to resolve and understand the high-energy Universe. The nature of the remaining unresolved emission…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-05-06 M. Ackermann , M. Ajello , L. Baldini , J. Ballet , G. Barbiellini , D. Bastieri , R. Bellazzini , E. Bissaldi , R. D. Blandford , R. Bonino , E. Bottacini , J. Bregeon , P. Bruel , R. Buehler , E. Burns , S. Buson , R. A. Cameron , R. Caputo , P. A. Caraveo , E. Cavazzuti , S. Chen , G. Chiaro , S. Ciprini , D. Costantin , A. Cuoco , S. Cutini , F. D'Ammando , P. de la Torre Luque , F. de Palma , A. Desai , S. W. Digel , N. Di Lalla , M. Di Mauro , L. Di Venere , F. Fana Dirirsa , C. Favuzzi , A. Franckowiak , Y. Fukazawa , S. Funk , P. Fusco , F. Gargano , D. Gasparrini , N. Giglietto , F. Giordano , M. Giroletti , D. Green , I. A. Grenier , L. Guillemot , S. Guiriec , D. Horan , G. Johannesson , M. Kuss , S. Larsson , L. Latronico , J. Li , I. Liodakis , F. Longo , F. Loparco , P. Lubrano , J. D. Magill , S. Maldera , D. Malyshev , A. Manfreda , M. N. Mazziotta , I. Mereu , P. F. Michelson , W. Mitthumsiri , T. Mizuno , M. E. Monzani , A. Morselli , I. V. Moskalenko , M. Negro , E. Nuss , M. Orienti , E. Orlando , M. Palatiello , V. S. Paliya , D. Paneque , M. Persic , M. Pesce-Rollins , V. Petrosian , F. Piron , T. A. Porter , G. Principe , S. Raino , R. Rando , M. Razzano , S. Razzaque , A. Reimer , O. Reimer , D. Serini , C. Sgro , E. J. Siskind , G. Spandre , P. Spinelli , D. J. Suson , H. Tajima , M. Takahashi , J. B. Thayer , L. Tibaldo , D. F. Torres , E. Troja , T. M. Venters , G. Vianello , K. Wood , M. Yassine , G. Zaharijas , S. Ammazzalorso , N. Fornengo , M. Regis

Using 43 months of public gamma-ray data from the Fermi Large Area Telescope, we find in regions close to the Galactic center at energies of 130 GeV a 4.6 sigma excess that is not inconsistent with a gamma-ray line from dark matter…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-11 Christoph Weniger

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

We analyze the first two years of data from the Fermi Gamma Ray Space Telescope from the direction of the inner 10 degrees around the Galactic Center with the intention of constraining, or finding evidence of, annihilating dark matter. We…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-03-17 Dan Hooper , Lisa Goodenough

Annihilating dark matter (DM) has been discussed as a possible source of gamma-rays from the galactic center (GC) and contributing to the extragalactic gamma-ray background (EGB). Assuming universality of the density profile of DM halos, we…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Shin'ichiro Ando

We implemented a novel technique to perform the collective spectral analysis of sets of multiple gamma-ray point sources using the data collected by the Large Area Telescope onboard the Fermi satellite. The energy spectra of the sources are…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2012-08-02 M. N. Mazziotta , F. Loparco , F. de Palma , N. Giglietto

Recent studies of radio data put strong constraints on annihilation cross section for dark matter. In this article, we provide the first analysis of using M33 radio data in constraining annihilating dark matter. The resulting constraints of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-10-24 Man Ho Chan

In most supersymmetic models, neutralino dark matter particles are predicted to accumulate in the Galactic center and annihilate generating, among other products, gamma rays. The EGRET experiment has made observations in this region, and is…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Dan Hooper , Brenda Dingus

The extragalactic background light (EBL), the cumulative radiation from all extragalactic sources, traces galaxy formation and cosmic evolution. High-energy $\gamma$ rays attenuated via pair production with EBL photons are a powerful probe…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-04-13 J. Baxter , A. Dominguez , J. D. Finke , A. Desai , M. Ajello , A. Banerjee , Dieter Hartmann , Vaidehi S. Paliya

Antimatter cosmic-rays are used to probe new phenomena in physics, including dark matter annihilation. We use the cosmic-ray positron fraction spectrum by the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer, to search for such an annihilation signal in the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-01-18 Iason Krommydas , Ilias Cholis

Many sources contribute to the diffuse gamma-ray background (DGRB), including star forming galaxies, active galactic nuclei, and cosmic ray interactions in the Milky Way. Exotic sources, such as dark matter annihilation, may also make some…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-09-21 Eric J. Baxter , J. G. Christy , Jason Kumar

We reconstruct the extra-galactic gamma-ray source-count distribution, or $dN/dS$, of resolved and unresolved sources by adopting machine learning techniques. Specifically, we train a convolutional neural network on synthetic 2-dimensional…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-05-16 Aurelio Amerio , Alessandro Cuoco , Nicolao Fornengo

The Fermi Large Area Telescope has observed an excess of ~GeV energy gamma rays from the center of the Milky Way, which may arise from near-thermal dark matter annihilation. Firmly establishing the dark matter origin for this excess is…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-07-22 Malte Buschmann , Nicholas L. Rodd , Benjamin R. Safdi , Laura J. Chang , Siddharth Mishra-Sharma , Mariangela Lisanti , Oscar Macias

Dark-matter annihilation into electroweak gauge and Higgs bosons results in $\gamma$-ray emission. We use observational upper limits on the fluxes of both line and continuum $\gamma$-rays from the Milky Way Galactic Center and from Milky…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-01-06 Michael A. Fedderke , Edward W. Kolb , Tongyan Lin , Lian-Tao Wang
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