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Searches for "dark" subhaloes in gamma-ray point-like source catalogues are among promising strategies for indirect dark matter detection. Such a search is nevertheless affected by uncertainties related, on the one hand, to the modelling of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-05-12 Francesca Calore , Moritz Hütten , Martin Stref

We use the recent measurement of the isotropic $\gamma$-ray background (IGRB) by Fermi LAT and analysis of the contribution of unresolved point $\gamma$-ray sources to IGRB to build constraints on the models of ultra-high cosmic rays…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-11-23 Oleg Kalashev

Using the Fermi LAT data on the gamma ray emission from dwarf spheroidal galaxies, we get the upper bound on the probability of gamma rays from dark matter decay for the validity of explanation of the anomalous Kolar events as dark matter…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-06-24 R. Thiru Senthil , G. Rajasekaran

We study the capabilities of the Fermi-LAT instrument for identifying particle Dark Matter properties as mass, annihilation cross section and annihilation channels, with gamma-ray observations from the Galactic Center. For the potential…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2010-12-02 Nicolas Bernal

Previous searches for the $\gamma$-ray signatures of annihilating galactic dark matter used predefined spatial templates to describe the background of $\gamma$-ray emission from astrophysical processes like cosmic ray interactions. In this…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-04-25 Xiaoyuan Huang , Torsten Enßlin , Marco Selig

The one-point function (i.e., the isotropic flux distribution) is a complementary method to (anisotropic) two-point correlations in searches for a gamma-ray dark matter annihilation signature. Using analytical models of structure formation…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-12-02 Michael R. Feyereisen , Shin'ichiro Ando , Samuel K. Lee

We argue that the decomposition of gamma-ray maps in spherical harmonics is a sensitive tool to study dark matter (DM) annihilation or decay in the main Galactic halo of the Milky Way. Using the spherical harmonic decomposition in a window…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2011-08-12 Dmitry Malyshev , Jo Bovy , Ilias Cholis

Due to their proximity, high dark-matter content, and apparent absence of non-thermal processes, Milky Way dwarf spheroidal satellite galaxies (dSphs) are excellent targets for the indirect detection of dark matter. Recently, eight new dSph…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-08-18 LAT Collaboration , The DES Collaboration , A. Drlica-Wagner , A. Albert , K. Bechtol , M. Wood , L. Strigari , M. Sanchez-Conde , L. Baldini , R. Essig , J. Cohen-Tanugi , B. Anderson , R. Bellazzini , E. D. Bloom , R. Caputo , C. Cecchi , E. Charles , J. Chiang , A. de Angelis , S. Funk , P. Fusco , F. Gargano , N. Giglietto , F. Giordano , S. Guiriec , M. Gustafsson , M. Kuss , F. Loparco , P. Lubrano , N. Mirabal , T. Mizuno , A. Morselli , T. Ohsugi , E. Orlando , M. Persic , S. Raino , N. Sehgal , F. Spada , D. J. Suson , G. Zaharijas , S. Zimmer , T. Abbott , S. Allam , E. Balbinot , A. H. Bauer , A. Benoit-Levy , R. A. Bernstein , G. M. Bernstein , E. Bertin , D. Brooks , E. Buckley-Geer , D. L. Burke , A. Carnero Rosell , F. J. Castander , R. Covarrubias , C. B. D'Andrea , L. N. da Costa , D. L. DePoy , S. Desai , H. T. Diehl , C. E Cunha , T. F. Eifler , J. Estrada , A. E. Evrard , A. Fausti Neto , E. Fernandez , D. A. Finley , B. Flaugher , J. Frieman , E. Gaztanaga , D. Gerdes , D. Gruen , R. A. Gruendl , G. Gutierrez , K. Honscheid , B. Jain , D. James , T. Jeltema , S. Kent , R. Kron , K. Kuehn , N. Kuropatkin , O. Lahav , T. S. Li , E. Luque , M. A. G. Maia , M. Makler , M. March , J. Marshall , P. Martini , K. W. Merritt , C. Miller , R. Miquel , J. Mohr , E. Neilsen , B. Nord , R. Ogando , J. Peoples , D. Petravick , A. Pieres , A. A. Plazas , A. Queiroz , A. K. Romer , A. Roodman , E. S. Rykoff , M. Sako , E. Sanchez , B. Santiago , V. Scarpine , M. Schubnell , I. Sevilla , R. C. Smith , M. Soares-Santos , F. Sobreira , E. Suchyta , M. E. C. Swanson , G. Tarle , J. Thaler , D. Thomas , D. Tucker , A. Walker , R. H. Wechsler , W. Wester , P. Williams , B. Yanny , J. Zuntz

Recent advances in gamma-ray cosmic ray, infrared and radio astronomy have allowed us to develop a significantly better understanding of the galactic medium properties in the last few years. In this work using the DRAGON code, that…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-03-05 Maryam Tavakoli , Ilias Cholis , Carmelo Evoli , Piero Ullio

We present the results of dark matter (DM) searches in a sample of 31 dwarf irregular (dIrr) galaxies within the field of view of the HAWC Observatory. dIrr galaxies are DM dominated objects, which astrophysical gamma-ray emission is…

Several cosmic ray experiments have measured excesses in electrons and positrons, relative to standard backgrounds, for energies from ~ 10 GeV - 1 TeV. These excesses could be due to new astrophysical sources, but an explanation in which…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-11-20 Spencer Chang , Lisa Goodenough

In this paper we examine whether indirect detection constraints on dark matter associated with a non-thermal history may be significantly improved when accounting for the presence of galactic substructure in the form of dark matter spikes.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-07-14 Pearl Sandick , Scott Watson

Using an effective interaction approach to describe the interactions between the dark matter particle and the light degrees of freedom of the standard model, we calculate the gamma-ray flux due to the annihilation of the dark matter into…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-06-24 Kingman Cheung , Po-Yan Tseng , Tzu-Chiang Yuan

We show that Milky Way white dwarfs are excellent targets for dark matter (DM) detection. Using Fermi and H.E.S.S. Galactic center gamma-ray data, we investigate sensitivity to DM annihilating within white dwarfs into long-lived or boosted…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-06-05 Javier F. Acevedo , Rebecca K. Leane , Lillian Santos-Olmsted

The density spike of dark matter (DM) in the subparsec region near the supermassive black hole at the Galactic Center can provide potentially observable gamma-ray signals coming from DM annihilations. Taking Fermi-$LAT$ data for the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-08-08 Pearl Sandick , Kuver Sinha , Takahiro Yamamoto

We apply two new state-of-the-art methods that model the distribution of observed tracers in projected phase space to lift the mass / velocity anisotropy (VA) degeneracy and deduce constraints on the mass profiles of galaxies, as well as…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-10-13 G. A. Mamon , J. Chevalier , A. J. Romanowsky , R. Wojtak

In the cosmological paradigm, cold dark matter (DM) dominates the mass content of the Universe and is present at every scale. Candidates for DM include many extensions of the standard model, such as weakly interacting massive particles…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-13 Benjamin Zitzer

Observations of diffuse Galactic gamma ray emission (DGE) by the Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) allow a detailed study of cosmic rays and the interstellar medium. However, diffuse emission models of the inner Galaxy underpredict the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-04-03 Lin F. Yang , Joseph Silk , Alexander S. Szalay , Rosemary F. G. Wyse , Brandon Bozek , Piero Madau

Minimal Dark Matter is among the simplest and most predictive Dark Matter frameworks, with the Majorana SU(2) 5-plet as its smallest accidentally stable real representation. We present a comprehensive reassessment of its indirect-detection…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-07-24 Mohammad Aghaie , Alessandro Dondarini , Giulio Marino , Paolo Panci

Previous studies on astrophysical dark matter (DM) constraints have all assumed that the Milky Way's (MW) DM halo can be modelled in isolation. However, recent work suggests that the MW's largest dwarf satellite, the Large Magellanic Cloud…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-01-19 Christopher Eckner , Francesca Calore , Denis Erkal , Sophia Lilleengen , Michael S. Petersen