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Motivated by a recent detection of 511 keV photons from the center of our Galaxy, we calculate the spectrum of the soft gamma-ray background of the redshifted 511 keV photons from cosmological halos. Annihilation of dark matter particles…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Kyungjin Ahn , Eiichiro Komatsu

We present the Model-Agnostic Dark Halo Analysis Tool (MADHAT), a numerical tool which implements a Fermi-LAT data-driven, model-independent analysis of gamma-ray emission from dwarf satellite galaxies and dwarf galaxy candidates due to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-06-05 Kimberly K. Boddy , Stephen Hill , Jason Kumar , Pearl Sandick , Barmak Shams Es Haghi

Motivated by the complex gamma-ray spectrum of the Galactic Center source now measured over five decades in energy, we revisit the issue of the role of dark matter annihilations in this interesting region. We reassess whether the emission…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-05-30 Alexander V. Belikov , Gabrijela Zaharijas , Joseph Silk

In the past few years, many mesoscale systems have been proposed as possible detectors of sub-GeV dark matter particles. In this work, we point out the feasibility of probing dark matter-nucleon scattering cross section using…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-11-15 Anirban Das , Noah Kurinsky , Rebecca K. Leane

The GLAST satellite mission will study the gamma ray sky with considerably greater exposure than its predecessor EGRET. In addition, it will be capable of measuring the arrival directions of gamma rays with much greater precision. These…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Scott Dodelson , Dan Hooper , Pasquale D. Serpico

Among the several strategies for indirect searches of dark matter, one very promising one is to look for the gamma-rays from decaying dark matter. Here we use the most up-to-date upper bounds on the gamma-ray flux from $10^5$ to $10^{11}$…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-11-17 Marco Chianese , Damiano F. G. Fiorillo , Rasmi Hajjar , Gennaro Miele , Ninetta Saviano

We compute the sensitivity to dark matter annihilations for the forthcoming large Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) in several primary channels and over a range of dark matter masses from 30 GeV up to 80 TeV. For all channels, we include…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-29 Valentin Lefranc , Emmanuel Moulin , Paolo Panci , Joseph Silk

GAMMA-400 is a future high-energy gamma-ray telescope, designed to measure the fluxes of gamma-rays and cosmic-ray electrons + positrons, which can be produced by annihilation or decay of dark matter particles, and to survey the celestial…

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

Can we learn about New Physics with astronomical and astro-particle data? Since its launch in 2008, the Large Area Telescope, onboard of the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope, has detected the largest amount of gamma rays in the 20 MeV - 300…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-03-02 A. Morselli , E. Nuss , G. Zaharijas

Dark matter is one of the most important open problems in particle physics and cosmology. Weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs) appear as an appealing solution, providing the right relic density with a cross-section at the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-10-04 C. Siqueira , Guilherme N. Fortes , Aion Viana , Farinaldo Queiroz

The GAMMA-400 gamma-ray telescope is designed to measure the fluxes of gamma rays and cosmic-ray electrons + positrons, which can be produced by annihilation or decay of the dark matter particles, as well as to survey the celestial sphere…

Local dwarf spheroidal galaxies (dSphs) are nearby dark-matter dominated systems, making them excellent targets for searching for gamma rays from particle dark matter interactions. If dark matter annihilates or decays directly into two…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-05-06 The HAWC Collaboration

Detecting the dark matter annihilation signal from Galactic substructure, or subhalos, is an important challenge for high-energy gamma-ray experiments. In this paper we discuss detection prospects by combining two different aspects of the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2010-12-24 Eric J. Baxter , Scott Dodelson , Savvas M. Koushiappas , Louis E. Strigari

The H.E.S.S. array of Cherenkov telescopes has performed, from 2004 to 2007, a survey of the inner Galactic plane at photon energies above 100 GeV. About 400 hours of data have been accumulated in the region between -30 and +60 degrees in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-09-29 HESS Collaboration , F Aharonian , G. Bertone

The dark matter halo profile in the inner Galaxy is very uncertain. Yet its radial dependence toward the Galactic Center is of crucial importance for the determination of the gamma-ray and radio fluxes originating from dark matter…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-04-04 Thomas Lacroix , Celine Boehm , Joseph Silk

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 dark matter halo of the Milky Way is predicted to contain a very large number of smaller subhalos. As a result of the dark matter annihilations taking place within such objects, the most nearby and massive subhalos could appear as…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-01-22 Asher Berlin , Dan Hooper

We study the prospects for studying line features in gamma-ray spectra with upcoming gamma-ray experiments, such as HESS-II, the Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA), and the GAMMA-400 satellite. As an example we use the narrow feature at 130…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-05 Lars Bergström , Gianfranco Bertone , Jan Conrad , Christian Farnier , Christoph Weniger