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Recently, an excess of GeV gamma ray near the Galactic Centre has beenvreported. The spectrum obtained can be best fitted with the annihilationvof $30-40$ GeV dark matter particles through $b \bar{b}$ channel. In this letter, I show that…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-23 Man Ho Chan

The center of the Milky Way is offering one of the most striking mystery in Astroparticle Physics. An excess of gamma rays (GCE) has been measured by several groups in the data collected by the Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) towards the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-11-18 Mattia Di Mauro

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

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

The inner degrees of the Galactic center contain a large population of filamentary structures observed at radio frequencies. These so-called non-thermal radio filaments (NRFs) trace magnetic field lines and have attracted significant…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-28 Tim Linden , Dan Hooper , Farhad Yusef-Zadeh

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

With the Fermi-LAT data quite a few research groups have reported a spatially extended GeV $\gamma$-ray excess surrounding the Galactic Center (GC). The physical origin of such a GeV excess is still unclear and one interesting possibility…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-06-22 Ming-Yang Cui , Cun Zhang , Hong-Shi Zong

Dark matter (DM) in the Milky Way halo may annihilate or decay to photons, producing monochromatic gamma rays. We search for DM-induced spectral lines using 14 years of data from the Large Area Telescope onboard the Fermi Gamma-ray Space…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-06-07 Joshua W. Foster , Yujin Park , Benjamin R. Safdi , Yotam Soreq , Weishuang Linda Xu

The apparent excess of gamma rays in an extended region in the direction of the galactic center has a spatial distribution and amplitude that are suggestive of dark matter annihilations. If this excess is indeed due to dark matter…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-19 Adam Martin , Jessie Shelton , James Unwin

Gamma rays and microwave observations of the Galactic Center and surrounding areas indicate the presence of anomalous emission, whose origin remains ambiguous. The possibility of dark matter (DM) annihilation explaining both signals through…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-04-28 Andrey E. Egorov , Jennifer M. Gaskins , Elena Pierpaoli , Davide Pietrobon

The reported excess of $\gamma$-rays, emitted from an extended region around the galactic center, has a distribution and rate suggestive of an origin in dark matter (DM) annihilations. The conventional annihilation channels into standard…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-23 Marat Freytsis , Dean J. Robinson , Yuhsin Tsai

The inner region of the Milky Way is one of the most interesting and complex regions of the gamma-ray sky. The intense interstellar emission and resolved point sources, as well as potential contributions by other sources such as unresolved…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-13 Troy A. Porter , Simona Murgia

An excess of gamma rays at GeV energies has been pointed out in the Fermi-LAT data. This signal comes from a narrow region centred around the Galactic center and has been interpreted as possible evidence for light dark matter particles…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-08-13 Thomas Lacroix , Celine Boehm , Joseph Silk

Fermi measurements of the high-latitude gamma-ray background strongly constrain a decaying-dark-matter origin for the 1--100 GeV Galactic positron anomaly measured with PAMELA. Inverse-Compton scattering of the microwave background by the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-14 Martin Pohl , David Eichler

Fermi Large Area Telescope data reveal an excess of GeV gamma rays from the direction of the Galactic Center and bulge. Several explanations have been proposed for this excess including an unresolved population of millisecond pulsars (MSPs)…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-08-15 Harrison Ploeg , Chris Gordon , Roland Crocker , Oscar Macias

We perform a composite likelihood analysis of subdivided regions within the central $26^\circ\times20^\circ$ of the Milky Way, with the aim of characterizing the spectrum of the gamma-ray galactic center excess in regions of varying…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-01-30 Shunsaku Horiuchi , Manoj Kaplinghat , Anna Kwa

The mass to luminosity ratio of the dwarf satellite galaxies in the Milky Way suggests that these dwarf galaxies may contain substantial dark matter. The dark matter at the dense region such as within or at the vicinity of the centres of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-01-13 Ashadul Halder , Shibaji Banerjee , Madhurima Pandey , Debasish Majumdar

Observations with the Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) indicate a possible small photon signal originating from the dwarf galaxy Reticulum II that exceeds the expected background between 2 GeV and 10 GeV. We have investigated two specific…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-12-23 Abraham Achterberg , Melissa van Beekveld , Wim Beenakker , Sascha Caron , Luc Hendriks

If the supermassive black hole Sgr A* at the center of the Milky Way grew adiabatically from an initial seed embedded in an NFW dark matter (DM) halo, then the DM profile near the hole has steepened into a spike. We calculate the dramatic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-10-15 Brian D. Fields , Stuart L. Shapiro , Jessie Shelton

The two most favored explanations of the Fermi Galactic Center gamma-ray excess (GCE) are millisecond pulsars and self annihilation of the smooth dark matter halo of the galaxy. In order to distinguish between these possibilities, we would…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-07-29 Katharena Christy , Eric J. Baxter , Jason Kumar
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