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For models in which dark matter annihilation is Sommerfeld-enhanced, the annihilation cross section increases at low relative velocities. Dwarf spheroidal galaxies (dSphs) have low characteristic dark matter particle velocities and are thus…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-06-20 Kimberly K. Boddy , Jason Kumar , Louis E. Strigari , Mei-Yu Wang

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

We calculate the effective $J$-factors, which determine the strength of indirect detection signals from dark matter annihilation, for 25 dwarf spheroidal galaxies (dSphs). We consider several well-motivated assumptions for the relative…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-08-04 Kimberly K. Boddy , Jason Kumar , Andrew B. Pace , Jack Runburg , Louis E. Strigari

Line-of-sight integrals of the squared density, commonly called the J-factor, are essential for inferring dark matter annihilation signals. The J-factors of dark matter-dominated dwarf spheroidal satellite galaxies (dSphs) have typically…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-01-18 A. Chiappo , J. Cohen-Tanugi , J. Conrad , L. E. Strigari , B. Anderson , M. A. Sanchez-Conde

The presence of dark matter in the halo of our galaxy could be revealed through indirect detection of annihilation products. Dark matter annihilation is one of the possible interpretations of the recent measured excesses in positron and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-13 Lidia Pieri , Massimiliano Lattanzi , Joseph Silk

Milky Way dwarf spheroidal satellites are a prime target for Dark Matter (DM) indirect searches. There have been recent reassessments of the expected DM gamma-ray signals in case of long-range interactions, commonly known as Sommerfeld…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-12-21 Mihael Petac , Piero Ullio , Mauro Valli

We discuss the indirect detection of the wino dark matter utilizing gamma-ray observations of dwarf spheroidal galaxies (dSphs). After carefully reviewing current limits with particular attention to astrophysical uncertainties, we show…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-10-03 Biplob Bhattacherjee , Masahiro Ibe , Koji Ichikawa , Shigeki Matsumoto , Kohei Nishiyama

Due to their large dynamical mass-to-light ratios, dwarf spheroidal galaxies (dSphs) are promising targets for the indirect detection of dark matter (DM) in gamma-rays. We examine their detectability by present and future gamma-ray…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-27 A. Charbonnier , C. Combet , M. Daniel , S. Funk , J. A. Hinton , D. Maurin , C. Power , J. I. Read , S. Sarkar , M. G. Walker , M. I. Wilkinson

J-factors (or D-factors) describe the distribution of dark matter in an astrophysical system and determine the strength of the signal provided by annihilating (or decaying) dark matter respectively. We provide simple analytic formulae to…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-05-25 N. W. Evans , J. L. Sanders , A. Geringer-Sameth

Dark matter halos of dwarf spheroidal galaxies (dSphs) play important roles in dark matter detection. Generally we estimate the halo profile using a kinematical equation of dSphs but the halo profile has a large uncertainty because we have…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-11-16 Shun'ichi Horigome , Kohei Hayashi , Shin'ichiro Ando

Indirect detection strategies of particle Dark Matter (DM) in Dwarf spheroidal satellite galaxies (dSphs) typically entail searching for annihilation signals above the astrophysical background. To robustly compare model predictions with the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-08-29 A. Chiappo , J. Cohen-Tanugi , J. Conrad , L. E. Strigari

Indirect dark matter searches targeting dwarf spheroidal galaxies (dSphs) have matured rapidly during the past decade. This has been because of the substantial increase in kinematic data sets from the dSphs, the new dSphs that have been…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-05-23 Louis E. Strigari

As searches for thermal and self-annihilating dark matter (DM) intensify, it becomes crucial to include as many relevant physical processes and ingredients as possible to refine signal predictions, in particular those which directly relate…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-06-16 Gaétan Facchinetti , Martin Stref , Thomas Lacroix , Julien Lavalle , Judit Pérez-Romero , David Maurin , Miguel A. Sánchez-Conde

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

Dwarf spheroidal galaxies are among the best environments that can be studied with Cherenkov telescopes for indirect searches of $\gamma$-ray signals coming from dark matter self-interaction (annihilation or decay), due to their proximity…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-06-12 Francesco Gabriele Saturni , Gonzalo Rodríguez-Fernández , Aldo Morselli

Dwarf spheroidal (dSph) galaxies are prime targets for present and future gamma-ray telescopes hunting for indirect signals of particle dark matter. The interpretation of the data requires careful assessment of their dark matter content in…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-09-10 V. Bonnivard , C. Combet , M. Daniel , S. Funk , A. Geringer-Sameth , J. A. Hinton , D. Maurin , J. I. Read , S. Sarkar , M. G. Walker , M. I. Wilkinson

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

Dwarf spheroidal galaxies are among the most promising targets for indirect dark matter (DM) searches in $\gamma$-rays. The $\gamma$-ray flux from DM annihilation in a dwarf spheroidal galaxy is proportional to the $J$-factor of the source.…

The expected gamma-ray flux coming from dark matter annihilation in dwarf spheroidal (dSph) galaxies depends on the so-called `J-factor', the integral of the squared dark matter density along the line-of-sight. We examine the degree to…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-08-10 V. Bonnivard , D. Maurin , M. G. Walker

We study the impact of the dark matter velocity distribution modelling on signals from velocity-dependent dark matter annihilation in Milky Way dwarf spheroidal galaxies. Using the high resolution APOSTLE simulations, we identify analogues…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-03-15 Keagan Blanchette , Erin Piccirillo , Nassim Bozorgnia , Louis E. Strigari , Azadeh Fattahi , Carlos S. Frenk , Julio F. Navarro , Till Sawala
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