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An anomalous gamma-ray excess emission has been found in Fermi Large Area Telescope data covering the centre of the Galaxy. Several theories have been proposed for this `Galactic Centre Excess'. They include self-annihilation of dark matter…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-08-10 Oscar Macias , Chris Gordon , Roland M. Crocker , Brenna Coleman , Dylan Paterson , Shunsaku Horiuchi , Martin Pohl

It was found in the Fermi-LAT data that there is an extended $\gamma$-ray excess in the Galactic center region. The proposed sources to be responsible for the excess include the dark matter annihilation or an astrophysical alternative from…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-08-05 Qiang Yuan , Bing Zhang

Millisecond pulsars (MSPs) are a leading explanation of the Galactic Center excess (GCE) observed in Fermi-LAT data. We constrain this scenario by jointly modeling prompt and inverse-Compton $\gamma$ rays from MSP-injected $e^\pm$ on the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-05-27 Jordan Koechler , Pedro De la Torre Luque , Mattia Di Mauro

The gamma-ray Fermi-LAT Galactic centre excess (GCE) has puzzled scientists for over 15 years. Despite ongoing debates about its properties, and especially its spatial distribution, its nature remains elusive. We scrutinize how the…

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

The Fermi satellite has recently detected gamma ray emission from the central regions of our Galaxy. This may be evidence for dark matter particles, a major component of the standard cosmological model, annihilating to produce high-energy…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-10-07 Timothy D. Brandt , Bence Kocsis

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 strongest experimental evidence for dark matter is the Galactic Center gamma-ray excess observed by the Fermi telescope and even predicted prior to discovery as a potential dark matter signature via WIMP dark matter self-annihilations.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-08-11 Moorits Mihkel Muru , Joseph Silk , Noam I. Libeskind , Stefan Gottloeber , Yehuda Hoffman

The Galactic Center Excess (GCE) is an extended gamma-ray source in the central region of the Galaxy found in Fermi Large Area Telescope (Fermi-LAT) data. One of the leading explanations for the GCE is an unresolved population of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-06-15 Harrison Ploeg , Chris Gordon , Roland Crocker , Oscar Macias

The $\textit{Fermi}$-LAT Collaboration recently presented a new catalog of gamma-ray sources located within the $40^{\circ} \times 40^{\circ}$ region around the Galactic Center~(Ajello et al. 2017) -- the Second Fermi Inner Galaxy (2FIG)…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-10-31 Richard Bartels , Dan Hooper , Tim Linden , Siddharth Mishra-Sharma , Nicholas L. Rodd , Benjamin R. Safdi , Tracy R. Slatyer

The Fermi Large Area Telescope has provided the most detailed view toward the Galactic Centre (GC) in high-energy gamma rays. Besides the interstellar emission and point-source contributions, the data suggest a residual diffuse gamma-ray…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-02-07 Giacomo Fragione , Fabio Antonini , Oleg Y. Gnedin

Several groups of authors have analyzed Fermi LAT data in a region around the Galactic Center finding an unaccounted gamma-ray excess over diffuse backgrounds in the GeV energy range. It has been argued that it is difficult or even…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-23 Jovana Petrovic , Pasquale D. Serpico , Gabrijela Zaharijas

If the mysterious Fermi-LAT GeV gamma-ray excess is due to an unresolved population of millisecond pulsars (MSP) in the Galactic bulge, one expects this very same population to shine in X rays. For the first time, we address the question of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-09-14 Joanna Berteaud , Francesca Calore , Maica Clavel , Pasquale Dario Serpico , Guillaume Dubus , Pierre-Olivier Petrucci

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

An anomalous emission component at energies of a few GeV and located towards the inner Galaxy is present in the Fermi-LAT data. It is known as the Fermi-LAT GeV excess. Using almost 8 years of data we reanalyze the characteristics of this…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-08-10 Richard Bartels , Emma Storm , Christoph Weniger , Francesca Calore

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

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-10-30 Chris Gordon , Oscar Macias

The Galactic Center Excess (GCE) is an extended gamma-ray source in the central region of the Galaxy found in Fermi Large Area Telescope data. In recent years it has become apparent that the GCE may not be spherically symmetric, but may be…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-09-20 Harrison Ploeg

The Galactic Centre {\gamma}-ray excess (GCE), observed by Fermi-LAT around Sgr A*, exceeds expectations from standard cosmic-ray models and is commonly attributed either to dark matter annihilation or to unresolved millisecond pulsars…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-04-02 M. Kalambay , M. Ishchenko , D. Kuvatova , T. Panamarev , P. Berczik

The Galactic Center (GC) is potentially hosting the largest indirect signal from particle dark matter (DM), which in many well-motivated models would produce gamma rays as their final states. However, this region has often been dismissed…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-11-06 Silvia Manconi , Christopher Eckner , Francesca Calore , Fiorenza Donato

Analogously to globular clusters, the dense stellar environment of the Galactic center has been proposed to host a large population of as-yet undetected millisecond pulsars (MSPs). Recently, this hypothesis found support in the analysis of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-09-13 Francesca Calore , Mattia Di Mauro , Fiorenza Donato , Jason W. T. Hessels , Christoph Weniger
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