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An excess of gamma rays has been identified at the centre of the Milky Way, and annihilation of dark matter has been posited as a potential source. This hypothesis faces significant challenges: difficulty characterizing astrophysical…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-09-05 Hamish A. Clark , Pat Scott , Roberto Trotta , Geraint F. Lewis

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

Building on our previous cross-correlation analysis (Xia et al. 2011) between the isotropic gamma-ray background (IGRB) and different tracers of the large-scale structure of the universe, we update our results using 60-months of data from…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Jun-Qing Xia , Alessandro Cuoco , Enzo Branchini , Matteo Viel

We study the origin of the positron excess observed in the local cosmic-ray spectrum at high energies, and relate it to the cosmic rays and gamma-ray emission across the entire Galaxy. In particular, we explore the hypothesis of a single,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-03-07 Manuel Rocamora , Yago Ascasibar , Miguel A. Sánchez-Conde , Maneenate Wechakama , Pedro de la Torre Luque

Descriptions of the Galactic Center using Fermi gamma-ray data have so far modeled the Galactic Center Excess (GCE) as a template with fixed spatial morphology or as a linear combination of such templates. Although these templates are…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-10-30 Edward D. Ramirez , Yitian Sun , Matthew R. Buckley , Siddharth Mishra-Sharma , Tracy R. Slatyer

Observations in radio have shown that galaxy clusters are giant reservoirs of cosmic rays (CR). Although a gamma- ray signal from the cluster volume is expected to arise through interactions of CR protons with the ambient plasma, a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-17 B. Huber , C. Tchernin , D. Eckert , C. Farnier , A. Manalaysay , U. Straumann , R. Walter

A gamma-ray excess from the galactic center consistent with line emission around 130 GeV was recently found in the Fermi-LAT data. Although the Fermi-LAT Collaboration has not confirmed its significance, such a signal would be a clear…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-08-29 Takashi Toma

As recently shown, Fermi-LAT measurements of the diffuse gamma-ray emission from the Galaxy favor the presence of a smooth softening in the primary cosmic-ray spectrum with increasing Galactocentric distance. This result can be interpreted…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-06-22 Daniele Gaggero , Dario Grasso , Antonio Marinelli , Alfredo Urbano , Mauro Valli

The minimal supersymmetric setup offers a comprehensive framework to interpret the Fermi LAT Galactic center excess. Taking into account experimental, theoretical, and astrophysical uncertainties we can identify valid parameter regions…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-09-06 Anja Butter , Simona Murgia , Tilman Plehn , Tim M. P. Tait

The survey of the inner Galaxy with H.E.S.S. was remarkably successful in detecting a wide range of new very-high-energy gamma-ray sources. New TeV gamma-ray emitting source classes were established, although several of the sources remain…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-13 S. Funk , J. A. Hinton , G. Hermann , S. Digel

We describe the generation of single-band point source catalogues from submillimetre Herschel-SPIRE observations taken as part of the Science Demonstration Phase of the Herschel Multi-tiered Extragalactic Survey (HerMES). Flux densities are…

Predefined spatial templates to describe the background of $\gamma$-ray emission from astrophysical processes, like cosmic ray interactions, are used in previous searches for the $\gamma$-ray signatures of annihilating galactic dark matter.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-06-22 Xiaoyuan Huang , Torsten Enßlin , Marco Selig

Spatial variations of the average properties that characterize the hadronic component of the diffuse Galactic cosmic-ray sea, in particular the spectral slope and normalization, may unveil critical information about their confinement…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-10-31 Mart Pothast , Daniele Gaggero , Emma Storm , Christoph Weniger

We report the identification of a positive cross-correlation signal between the unresolved $\gamma$-ray emission, measured by the \emph{Fermi} Large Area Telescope, and four different galaxy cluster catalogues. The selected catalogues peak…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-07-07 Manuel Colavincenzo , Xiuhui Tan , Simone Ammazzalorso , Stefano Camera , Marco Regis , Jun-Qing Xia , Nicolao Fornengo

Galactic outflows are ubiquitous in galaxies containing active star formation or supermassive black hole activity. The presence of a large-scale outflow from the center of our own Galaxy was confirmed after the discovery of two large ($\sim…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-03-18 Kartick C. Sarkar

The Galactic center excess (GCE) remains one of the most intriguing discoveries from the Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) observations. We revisit the characteristics of the GCE by first producing a new set of high-resolution galactic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-05-24 Ilias Cholis , Yi-Ming Zhong , Samuel D. McDermott , Joseph P. Surdutovich

Galaxy clusters are the largest gravitationally bound objects in the universe and may be suitable targets for indirect dark matter searches. With 85 months of Fermi-LAT Pass 8 publicly available data, we analyze the gamma-ray emission in…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-05-27 Yun-Feng Liang , Zhao-Qiang Shen , Xiang Li , Yi-Zhong Fan , Xiaoyuan Huang , Shi-Jun Lei , Lei Feng , En-Wei Liang , Jin Chang

In this paper we report the Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) detection of the gamma-ray emission toward the young star forming region W43. Using the latest source catalog and diffuse background models, the extended gamma-ray excess is…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-08-19 Rui-zhi Yang , Yuan Wang

We report the measurement of the angular power spectrum of cross-correlation between the unresolved component of the Fermi-LAT gamma-ray sky-maps and the CMB lensing potential map reconstructed by the Planck satellite. The matter…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-18 N. Fornengo , L. Perotto , M. Regis , S. Camera

The study of soft X-ray emission of 38 X-ray selected galaxy clusters observed by ROSAT PSPC indicates that the soft excess phenomenon may be a common occurrence in galaxy clusters. Excess soft X-ray radiation, above the contribution from…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 M. Bonamente , R. Lieu , M. K. Joy , J. H. Nevalainen