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We propose a novel statistical method to extend Fermi-LAT catalogues of high-latitude $\gamma$-ray sources below their nominal threshold. To do so, we rely on a recent determination of the differential source-count distribution of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-05-16 Aurelio Amerio , Francesca Calore , Pasquale Dario Serpico , Bryan Zaldivar

This is the first of a series of papers aimed at characterizing the populations detected in the high-latitude sky of the {\it Fermi}-LAT survey. In this work we focus on the intrinsic spectral and flux properties of the source sample. We…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-09-02 LAT Collaboration

Recently, it has been shown that electrons and positrons from dark matter (DM) annihilations provide an excellent fit to the Fermi, PAMELA, and HESS data. Using this DM model, which requires an enhancement of the annihilation cross section…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2009-11-20 Anders Pinzke , Christoph Pfrommer , Lars Bergstrom

We report on the first Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) measurements of the so-called "extra-galactic" diffuse gamma-ray emission (EGB). This component of the diffuse gamma-ray emission is generally considered to have an isotropic or nearly…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2010-04-06 LAT collaboration

We estimate the spatial locations of sources of the the observed features in the Fermi-LAT photon spectrum at $E_\gamma=110$ and $E_\gamma=130$ GeV. We determine whether they are consistent with emission from a single source, as would be…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-11 Kanishka Rao , Daniel Whiteson

We make a detailed analysis of the indirect diffuse gamma-ray signals from dark matter annihilation in the Galaxy. We include the prompt emission, as well as the emission from inverse Compton scattering whenever the annihilation products…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2012-11-14 Steve Blanchet , Julien Lavalle

Electrons and positrons produced in dark matter annihilation can generate secondary emission through synchrotron and IC processes, and such secondary emission provides a possible means to detect DM particles with masses beyond the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-02-02 Xiao-Song Hu , Ben-Yang Zhu , Tian-Ci Liu , Yun-Feng Liang

The diffuse gamma ray emission from astrophysical backgrounds in our Galaxy and the signal due to the annihilation or decay of Dark Matter (DM) in the Galactic Halo are expected to have a substantially different morphology and spectral…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-14 Gabrijela Zaharijas , Alessandro Cuoco , Zhaoyu Yang , Jan Conrad

The identification of point sources poses a great challenge for the high energy community. We present a new approach to evaluate the likelihood of a set of sources being a Galactic population based on the simple assumption that galaxies…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-04-15 J. M. Siegal-Gaskins , V. Pavlidou , A. V. Olinto , C. Brown , B. D. Fields

In this thorough study we focus on the indirect detection of Dark Matter (DM) through the confrontation of unexplained galactic and extragalactic $\gamma$-ray signatures for a low mass DM model. For this, we consider a simple Higgs-portal…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-08-27 Kamakshya Prasad Modak , Debasish Majumdar

We use 7 years of electron and positron Fermi-LAT data to search for a possible excess in the direction of the Sun in the energy range from 42 GeV to 2 TeV. In the absence of a positive signal we derive flux upper limits which we use to…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-01-15 A. Cuoco , P. De La Torre Luque , F. Gargano , M. Gustafsson , F. Loparco , M. N. Mazziotta , D. Serini

We use diffuse Galactic high energy gamma ray data from LHAASO and Fermi-LAT to constrain gravitationally produced decaying dark matter (DM). Focusing on four benchmark candidates: a dark photon, a heavy right-handed neutrino (RHN), a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-12-12 Basabendu Barman , Arindam Das , Prantik Sarmah , Rakesh Kumar SivaKumar

Recently, the Fermi-LAT collaboration reported upper limits on the GeV gamma-ray flux from nearby clusters of galaxies. Motivated by these limits, we study corresponding constraints on gamma-ray emissions from two specific decaying dark…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-03-28 Jiwei Ke , Mingxing Luo , Liucheng Wang , Guohuai Zhu

Over the past few years, there has been a hint of the $\gamma$-ray excess observed by the Fermi-LAT satellite borne telescope from the regions surrounding the Galactic Centre at an energy range $\sim 1$-$3$ GeV. The nature of this excess…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-03-21 Anirban Biswas

We compare the measured angular cross-correlation between the Fermi-LAT gamma-ray sky and catalogues of extra-galactic objects with the expected signal induced by weakly interacting massive particle (WIMP) dark matter (DM). We include a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-10-20 Alessandro Cuoco , Jun-Qing Xia , Marco Regis , Enzo Branchini , Nicolao Fornengo , Matteo Viel

There is evidence for a 130 GeV gamma-ray line at the Galactic Center in the Fermi Large Area Telescope data. Dark matter candidates that explain this feature should also annihilate to Standard Model particles, resulting in a continuous…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-05 Timothy Cohen , Mariangela Lisanti , Tracy R. Slatyer , Jay G. Wacker

One of the most prominent features of the $\gamma$-ray sky is the emission from our own Galaxy. The Galactic plane has been observed by Fermi-LAT in GeV and H.E.S.S. in TeV light. Fermi has modeled the Galactic emission as the sum of a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-09 Ellis Owen , Christoph Deil , Axel Donath , Régis Terrier

The nature of the GeV gamma-ray Galactic center excess (GCE) in the data of Fermi-Large Area Telescope (LAT) is still to be unveiled. We present a new analysis of the inner Galaxy Fermi-LAT data at energies above 10 GeV, based on an…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-05-27 Silvia Manconi , Francesca Calore , Fiorenza Donato

We derive bounds on the dark matter annihilation cross-section for low-mass (5-20 GeV) dark matter annihilating primarily to up or down quarks, using the Fermi-LAT bound on gamma-rays from Milky Way satellites. For models in which dark…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-05-30 Jason Kumar , David Sanford , Louis E. Strigari

Using gamma-ray data from the Fermi Large Area Telescope, various groups have identified a clear excess emission in the Inner Galaxy, at energies around a few GeV. This excess resembles remarkably well a signal from dark-matter…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-03-10 Richard Bartels , Suraj Krishnamurthy , Christoph Weniger