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We examine the possibility that the dark matter (DM) interpretation of the GeV scale Fermi gamma-ray excess at the Galactic Center can be realized in a specific framework - secluded singlet fermionic dark matter model with small mixing…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-06-29 Yeong Gyun Kim , Kang Young Lee , Chan Beom Park , Seodong Shin

The Galactic center gamma-ray excess (GCE) is a long-standing unsolved problem. One of candidate solutions, the dark matter (DM) annihilation, has been recently tested with other astrophysical observations, such as AMS-02 electron-positron…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-08-10 Murat Abdughani , Yi-Zhong Fan , Chih-Ting Lu , Tian-Peng Tang , Yue-Lin Sming Tsai

Hidden sector dark matter (DM) models with local dark gauge symmetry make a natural playground for the $\gamma$-ray excess from the galactic center (GC). In this paper, we first discuss in detail the GC $\gamma$-ray excess in scalar dark…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-01-20 P. Ko , Yong Tang

An excess of gamma rays at GeV energies has been pointed out in the Fermi-LAT data. This signal comes from a narrow region centred around the Galactic center and has been interpreted as possible evidence for light dark matter particles…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-08-13 Thomas Lacroix , Celine Boehm , Joseph Silk

We report evidence for extended gamma-ray emission from the Virgo, Fornax and Coma clusters based on a maximum-likelihood analysis of the 3-year Fermi-LAT data. For all three clusters, excess emission is observed within three degrees of the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-12 Jiaxin Han , Carlos S. Frenk , Vincent R. Eke , Liang Gao , Simon D. M. White

Over ten years ago, Fermi observed an excess of GeV gamma rays from the Galactic Center whose origin is still under debate. One explanation for this excess involves annihilating dark matter; another requires an unresolved population of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-08-31 Andrew L. Miller , Yue Zhao

We point out that the gamma-ray excesses in the galactic center and in the dwarf galaxy Reticulum II can both be well explained within the simplest dark matter model. We find that the corresponding region of parameter space will be tested…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-06-07 Michael Duerr , Pavel Fileviez Perez , Juri Smirnov

The Galactic centre - as the closest galactic nucleus - holds both intrinsic interest and possibly represents a useful analogue to star-burst nuclei which we can observe with orders of magnitude finer detail than these external systems. The…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-03 Roland M. Crocker

Gamma-ray observations of the Galactic Center (GC) region provide some of the most sensitive measurements of annihilation signals from dark matter in the GeV-TeV mass range. We present the first results from 178 hours of VERITAS…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-09-25 James L Ryan

The Galactic center $\gamma$-ray excess, detected by the Fermi-LAT, is a very attractive tentative signal from dark matter annihilation. Searching for associated synchrotron emissions can test the dark matter interpretation for this excess.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-05-18 Wen-Qing Guo , Yichao Li , Xiaoyuan Huang , Yin-Zhe Ma , Geoff Beck , Yogesh Chandola , Feng Huang

Several groups have analyzed the publicly-available Fermi-LAT data and reported a spatially extended $\gamma-$ray excess of around $1-3$ GeV from the region surrounding the Galactic Center that might originate from annihilation of dark…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-24 Bei Zhou , Yun-Feng Liang , Xiaoyuan Huang , Xiang Li , Yi-Zhong Fan , Lei Feng , Jin Chang

The Fermi bubbles (FBs) are large gamma-ray emitting lobes extending up to $55\deg$ in latitude above and below the Galactic center (GC). Although the FBs were discovered 8 years ago, their origin and the nature of the gamma-ray emission…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-12-02 Laura Herold , Dmitry Malyshev

Gamma rays and microwave observations of the Galactic Center and surrounding areas indicate the presence of anomalous emission, whose origin remains ambiguous. The possibility of dark matter (DM) annihilation explaining both signals through…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-04-28 Andrey E. Egorov , Jennifer M. Gaskins , Elena Pierpaoli , Davide Pietrobon

Recently the study of anomalous gamma-ray emission in the regions surrounding the galactic center has drawn a lot of attention as it points out that the excess of $\sim 1-3$ GeV gamma-ray in the low latitude is consistent with the emission…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-04-09 Tanushree Basak , Tanmoy Mondal

The diffuse Galactic $\gamma$-rays from EGRET observation shows excesses above 1 GeV in comparison with the expectations from conventional Galactic cosmic ray (CR) propagation model. In the work we try to solve the "GeV excess" problem by…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Xiao-Jun Bi , Juan Zhang , Qiang Yuan , Jian-Li Zhang , HongSheng Zhao

A gamma-ray excess from the galactic center consistent with line emission around 130 GeV was recently found in the Fermi-LAT data. Although the Fermi-LAT Collaboration has not confirmed its significance, such a signal would be a clear…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-08-29 Takashi Toma

Dark matter annihilation has been proposed to explain the TeV gamma rays observed from the Galactic Center. We study constraints on this hypothesis coming from the mass profile around the Galactic Center measured by observing stellar…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Jeter Hall , Paolo Gondolo

The discovery of the Fermi bubbles---a huge bilobular structure seen in GeV gamma-rays above and below the Galactic center---implies the presence of a large reservoir of high energy particles at $\sim 10 \, \text{kpc}$ from the disk. The…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-02-27 Philipp Mertsch , Vahé Petrosian

We search for spectral features in Fermi-LAT gamma-rays coming from regions corresponding to eighteen brightest nearby galaxy clusters determined by the magnitude of their signal line-of-site integrals. We observe a double peak-like excess…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-05 Andi Hektor , Martti Raidal , Elmo Tempel

Diffuse Galactic gamma-ray emission is produced in interactions of cosmic rays with gas and ambient photon fields and thus provides us with an indirect measurement of cosmic rays in various locations in the Galaxy. The diffuse gamma-ray…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Martin Pohl