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Observation of gamma-rays from dwarf galaxies is an effective way to search for particle dark matter. Using 4-year data of Fermi-LAT observations on a series of Milky Way satellites, we develop a general way to search for the signals from…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-12 Yue-Lin Sming Tsai , Qiang Yuan , Xiaoyuan Huang

Dwarf spheroidal galaxies compose one of the most dark matter dominated classes of objects, making them a set of targets to search for signals of dark matter annihilation. Recent developments in gamma-ray astronomy, most importantly the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2012-11-14 Ilias Cholis , Paolo Salucci

Dwarf spheroidal galaxies have a large mass to light ratio and low astrophysical background, and are therefore considered one of the most promising targets for dark matter searches in the gamma-ray band. By applying a joint likelihood…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-15 M. Llena Garde , J. Conrad , J. Cohen-Tanugi , M. Kaplinghat , G. Martinez

Stellar streams are remnants of globular clusters or dwarf galaxies that have been tidally disrupted by the gravitational potential of their host galaxy. Streams originating from dwarfs can be particularly compelling targets for indirect…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-02-24 Cristina Fernandez-Suarez , Miguel A. Sanchez-Conde

Gamma-ray experiments seeking to detect evidence of dark matter annihilation in dwarf spheroidal galaxies require knowledge of the distribution of dark matter within these systems. We analyze the effects of flattening on the annihilation…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-09-21 Jason L. Sanders , N. Wyn Evans , Alex Geringer-Sameth , Walter Dehnen

The Milky Way (MW) dwarf spheroidal satellite galaxies (dSphs) are particularly intriguing targets to search for gamma rays from Weakly Interacting Massive Particle (WIMP) dark matter (DM) annihilation or decay. They are nearby,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-11-10 Alex McDaniel , Marco Ajello , Christopher M. Karwin , Mattia Di Mauro , Alex Drlica-Wagner , Miguel A. Sanchez-Conde

The substructures of the Galactic dark matter halo such as dark matter subhalos and dwarf galaxies have very low velocity dispersions, which makes them useful in constraining the scenario of Sommerfeld-enhanced dark matter annihilation. We…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-04-25 Bo-Qiang Lu , Yue-Liang Wu , Wei-Hong Zhang , Yu-Feng Zhou

The Sagittarius Dwarf Spheroidal galaxy (Sgr) is investigated as a target for DM annihilation searches utilising J-factor distributions calculated directly from a high-resolution hydrodynamic simulation of the infall and tidal disruption of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-11-15 Thomas A. A. Venville , Alan R. Duffy , Roland M. Crocker , Oscar Macias , Thor Tepper-García

Around one third of the point-like sources in the Fermi-LAT catalogs remain as unidentified sources (unIDs) today. Indeed, these unIDs lack a clear, univocal association with a known astrophysical source. If dark matter (DM) is composed of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-02-21 V. Gammaldi , B. Zaldívar , M. A. Sánchez-Conde , J. Coronado-Blázquez

Dark matter mass density profiles and velocity distributions for a set of dwarf spheroidal galaxies (dSphs) have recently been obtained (F.Bezrukov, D.Gorbunov, E.Koreshkova arXiv:2412.20585) by performing a multi-parametric fit to the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-09-12 Fedor Bezrukov , Dmitry Gorbunov , Ekaterina Koreshkova

Photons produced in the annihilations of dark matter particles can be detected by gamma-ray telescopes; this technique of indirect detection serves as a cornerstone of the upcoming assault on the dark matter paradigm. The main obstacle to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-07-08 Eric J. Baxter , Scott Dodelson

Fermi-LAT observations have strongly constrained dark matter annihilation through the joint-likelihood analysis of dwarf spheroidal galaxies (dSphs). These constraints are expected to be robust because dSphs have measurable dark matter…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-02-26 Tim Linden

The gamma-ray observation of the dwarf spheroidal galaxies (dSphs) is a promising approach to search for the dark matter annihilation (or decay) signal. The dSphs are the nearby satellite galaxies with a clean environment and dense dark…

We analyze 11 years of Fermi-LAT data corresponding to the sky regions of 7 dwarf irregular (dIrr) galaxies. DIrrs are dark matter (DM) dominated systems, proposed as interesting targets for the indirect search of DM with gamma rays. The…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-11-28 V. Gammaldi , J. Pérez-Romero , J. Coronado-Blázquez , M. Di Mauro , E. V. Karukes , M. A. Sánchez-Conde , P. Salucci

Dwarf spheroidal galaxies (dSphs) are promising targets for the gamma-ray dark matter (DM) search. In particular, DM annihilation signal is expected to be strong in some of the recently discovered nearby ultra-faint dSphs, which potentially…

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

We study observable signals from dark matter that self-annihilates via the Sommerfeld effect in dwarf spheroidal galaxies (dSphs). Since the effect of the Sommerfeld enhancement depends on the velocity of dark matter, it is crucial to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-07-29 Shin'ichiro Ando , Koji Ishiwata

Due to a large mass-to-light ratio and low astrophysical backgrounds, dwarf spheroidal galaxies (dSphs) are considered to be one of the most promising targets for dark matter searches via gamma rays. The Fermi LAT Collaboration has recently…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-13 Alex Drlica-Wagner

Recent Fermi-LAT observations of dwarf spheroidal galaxies in the Milky Way have placed strong limits on the gamma-ray flux from dark matter annihilation. In order to produce the strongest limit on the dark matter annihilation…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-09-28 Linda M. Carpenter , Russell Colburn , Jessica Goodman , Tim Linden