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We present a potential test of the origin of the $\gamma$-ray Galactic Centre Excess (GCE). We demonstrate how gravitational microlensing by stellar mass objects along the line of sight to the Galactic Bulge can distinguish between the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-08-28 Nada Salama , Florian List , Geraint Lewis

We study diffuse gamma-ray emission at intermediate Galactic latitudes measured by the Fermi Large Area Telescope with the aim of searching for a signal from dark matter annihilation or decay. In the absence of a robust dark matter signal,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-04-10 G. Zaharijas , J. Conrad , A. Cuoco , Z. Yang

The Galactic Center Excess (GCE) in GeV gamma rays has been debated for over a decade, with the possibility that it might be due to dark matter annihilation or undetected point sources such as millisecond pulsars (MSPs). This study…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-06-14 Sascha Caron , Christopher Eckner , Luc Hendriks , Guðlaugur Jóhannesson , Roberto Ruiz de Austri , Gabrijela Zaharijas

The existence of dark matter (DM) is supported by various macroscopic observations, but its microscopic nature remains elusive. The Galactic Center GeV gamma-ray excess (GCE) has been a leading candidate signal for particle DM annihilation.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-03-03 Ming-Yu Lei , Bei Zhou , Xiaoyuan Huang

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

After the discovery of Fermi Bubbles and the excess of gamma-ray emission, the Galactic Centre has received increasing attention with the aim to understand its role in the origin and acceleration of primary cosmic rays (CRs). Based on a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-06-15 Rita C. Anjos , Fernando Catalani

The singlet-doublet fermion dark matter model (SDFDM) provides a good DM candidate as well as the possibility of generating neutrino masses radiatively. The search and identification of DM requires the combined effort of both indirect and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-03-30 Shunsaku Horiuchi , Oscar Macias , Diego Restrepo , Andres Rivera , Hamish Silverwood , Oscar Zapata

We propose a novel mechanism enabling us to have a continuum bump as a signature of gamma-ray excess in indirect detection experiments of dark matter (DM), postulating a generic dark sector having (at least) two DM candidates. With the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-02-25 Doojin Kim , Jong-Chul Park

The direct measurements of the cosmic electron-positron spectrum around 1 TeV made by DAMPE have induced many theoretical speculations about possible excesses in the data above the standard astrophysical predictions that might have the dark…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-07-01 Konstantin Belotsky , Airat Kamaletdinov , Maxim Laletin , Maxim Solovyov

Here is reviewed our current understanding of Galactic and extragalactic diffuse gamma-ray emission. The spectrum of the extragalactic gamma-ray background above 30 MeV can be well described by a power law with photon index s=2.1. In the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Martin Pohl

We revisit the idea that the Galactic center (GC) is the dominant source of Galactic cosmic rays (GCRs), based on a series of new observational evidence. A unified model is proposed to explain the new phenomena of GCRs and $\gamma$-rays…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-01-24 Yiqing Guo , Zhaoyang Feng , Qiang Yuan , Cheng Liu , Hongbo Hu

It has been recently pointed out that the excess of the gamma ray spectrum in the Fermi Bubbles at low latitude can be well explained by the annihilation of dark matter particles. The best-fit candidate corresponds to the annihilation of a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-17 Nobuchika Okada , Osamu Seto

An excess in gamma-rays from the galactic center observed by the Fermi Large Area Telescope has been proposed as a possible signal of dark matter annihilation. Recently, the Fermi collaboration showed that systematic errors broaden the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-05-07 Arvind Rajaraman , Jordan Smolinsky , Philip Tanedo

The Fermi-LAT data appear to have an excess of gamma rays from the inner 150 pc of the Galactic Center. The main explanations proposed for this are: an unresolved population of millisecond pulsars (MSPs), dark matter (DM) annihilation, and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-03-19 Oscar Macias , Chris Gordon

The Galactic center excess (GCE) remains one of the most intriguing discoveries from the Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) observations. We revisit the characteristics of the GCE by first producing a new set of high-resolution galactic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-05-24 Ilias Cholis , Yi-Ming Zhong , Samuel D. McDermott , Joseph P. Surdutovich

Recently evidence has emerged for enormous features in the gamma-ray sky observed by the Fermi-LAT instrument: bilateral `bubbles' of emission centered on the core of the Galaxy and extending to around 10 kpc above and below the Galactic…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2011-03-24 Roland M. Crocker , Felix Aharonian

Tentative evidence for excess GeV-scale gamma rays from the galactic center has been corroborated by several groups, including the Fermi collaboration, on whose data the observation is based. Dark matter annihilation into standard model…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-10-21 James M. Cline , Grace Dupuis , Zuowei Liu , Wei Xue

We promote the idea of multi-component Dark Matter (DM) to explain results from both direct and indirect detection experiments. In these models as contribution of each DM candidate to relic abundance is summed up to meet WMAP/Planck…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-18 Kamakshya Prasad Modak , Debasish Majumdar , Subhendu Rakshit

We present a classically scale-invariant model with a confining dark sector, which is coupled to the Standard Model through the Higgs portal. The galactic centre gamma ray excess can be explained in this model by collision-induced dark…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-23 Matti Heikinheimo , Christian Spethmann

The Fermi-LAT \gamma-ray data have been used to study the morphological and spectral features of the so-called GeV excess - a diffuse radiation component recently discovered towards the Galactic centre. We used the likelihood method to…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-04-27 Rui-zhi Yang , Felix Aharonian