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The paradigm of the neutralino dark matter predicts that the first gravitationally bound objects are earth-mass sized microhaloes, which would emit annihilation gamma-rays. Here we show that, though the flux from individual nearest…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Takeshi Oda , Tomonori Totani , Masahiro Nagashima

We discuss the gamma-ray signal to be expected from dark matter (DM)annihilations at the Galactic Center. To describe the DM distribution in the Galactic halo we base on the Jeans equation for self-gravitating, anisotropic equilibria. In…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-14 A. Lapi , A. Paggi , A. Cavaliere , A. Lionetto , A. Morselli , V. Vitale

We present a formalism for estimating the angular power spectrum of extragalactic gamma-rays produced by dark matter annihilating with any general velocity-dependent cross section. The relevant density and velocity distribution of dark…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-05-29 Sheldon Campbell , Bhaskar Dutta

Ultracompact minihalos would be formed if there are larger density perturbations ($0.0003 < \delta\rho/\rho < 0.3$) in the earlier epoch. The density profile of them is steeper than the standard dark matter halos. If the dark matter can…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 Yupeng Yang , Guilin Yang , Hongshi Zong

Recent high-energy data from Fermi-LAT on the diffuse gamma-ray background have been used to set among the best constraints on annihilating TeV cold dark matter candidates. In order to assess the robustness of these limits, we revisit and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-02-08 Moritz Hütten , Céline Combet , David Maurin

In standard cosmology, the growth of structure becomes significant following matter-radiation equality. In non-thermal histories, where an effectively matter-dominated phase occurs due to scalar oscillations prior to Big Bang…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-09-14 Adrienne L. Erickcek , Kuver Sinha , Scott Watson

A leading interpretation of the electron/positron excesses seen by PAMELA and ATIC is dark matter annihilation in the galactic halo. Depending on the annihilation channel, the electron/positron signal could be accompanied by a galactic…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-09-29 Jeremy Mardon , Yasunori Nomura , Daniel Stolarski , Jesse Thaler

A prediction of the standard LCDM cosmology is that dark matter (DM) halos are teeming with numerous self-bound substructure, or subhalos. The precise properties of these subhalos represent important probes of the underlying cosmological…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-01-24 Ángeles Moliné , Miguel A. Sánchez-Conde , Sergio Palomares-Ruiz , Francisco Prada

We present a mechanism that allows thermal relic dark matter to annihilate efficiently in the Galactic Halo and in galaxy clusters, but not in the lower-velocity environments of dwarf spheroidal (dSph) galaxies. We realize this within a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-04-18 Asher Berlin , Joshua W. Foster , Dan Hooper , Gordan Krnjaic

The 1-point matter density probability distribution function (PDF) captures some of the non-Gaussian information lost in standard 2-point statistics. The matter PDF can be well predicted at mildly non-linear scales using large deviations…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-16 Beth McCarthy Gould , Lina Castiblanco , Cora Uhlemann , Oliver Friedrich

Annihilation of cosmologically distributed dark matter is predicted to produce a potentially observable flux of high energy photons. Neglecting the contribution from local structure, this signal is predicted to be virtually uniform on the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2009-12-10 Scott Dodelson , Alexander V. Belikov , Dan Hooper , Pasquale Serpico

We use the suite of Milky Way-like galaxies in the Auriga simulations to determine the contribution to annihilation radiation from dark matter subhalos in three velocity-dependent dark matter annihilation models: Sommerfeld, p-wave, and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-08-31 Erin Piccirillo , Keagan Blanchette , Nassim Bozorgnia , Louis E. Strigari , Carlos S. Frenk , Robert J. J. Grand , Federico Marinacci

We conduct a comprehensive analysis of potential annihilation processes of light dark matter (DM) in minimal Higgs portal models near supermassive black hole (Sgr A$^{\star}$) in the Galactic Center, considering interactions between DM…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-01-14 Chih-Ting Lu , Xiao-Yi Luo , Zi-Qing Xia

To reveal natures of the dark matter (DM) particles, a gamma-ray signal produced in annihilation processes of DM into the standard model particles has been one of the major probes. The cross-correlation between highly DM dominated…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-02-04 Daiki Hashimoto , Atsushi J. Nishizawa , Masahiro Takada

We use 413 weeks of publicly-available $\textit{Fermi}$ Pass 8 gamma-ray data, combined with recently-developed galaxy group catalogs, to search for evidence of dark matter annihilation in extragalactic halos. In our study, we use…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-05-07 Mariangela Lisanti , Siddharth Mishra-Sharma , Nicholas L. Rodd , Benjamin R. Safdi

It has been long discussed that cosmic rays may contain signals of dark matter. In the last couple of years an anomaly of cosmic-ray positrons has drawn a lot of attentions, and recently an excess in cosmic-ray anti-proton has been reported…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-06-29 Shin'ichiro Ando , Koji Ishiwata

We study the prospects for detecting gamma-rays from Dark Matter (DM) annihilations in enhancements of the DM density (mini-spikes) around intermediate-mass black holes with masses in the range $10^2 \lsim M / \msun \lsim 10^6$. Focusing on…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Gianfranco Bertone , Andrew R. Zentner , Joseph Silk

If dark matter annihilates with a velocity-dependent cross section within a subhalo, then the magnitude and angular distribution of the resulting photon signal will change. These effects are encoded in the $J$-factor. In this work we…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-07-29 Bradly Boucher , Jason Kumar , Van B. Le , Jack Runburg

We calculate the flux of cosmic positrons from the dark matter annihilation in the littlest Higgs model with T-parity. The dark matter annihilates mainly into weak gauge bosons in the halo, and high energy positrons are produced through…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 Masaki Asano , Shigeki Matsumoto , Nobuchika Okada , Yasuhiro Okada

High resolution simulations reveal that in the cold dark matter scenario the structures form hierarchically and a large number of substructures survive in the galactic halos. The substructures can be probed if they emit gamma rays via dark…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Xiao-Jun Bi