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Using data from the Fermi Gamma-Ray Space Telescope, a spatially extended component of gamma rays has been identified from the direction of the Galactic Center, peaking at energies of ~2-3 GeV. More recently, it has been shown that this…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-10-30 Dan Hooper , Ilias Cholis , Tim Linden , Jennifer Siegal-Gaskins , Tracy Slatyer

From astronomical observations, we know that dark matter exists and makes up $\sim$25\% of our Universe. Recently the study of anomalous gamma-ray emission in the regions surrounding the galactic center has drawn a lot of attention. It has…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-07-08 Tanmoy Mondal , Tanushree Basak

We propose a novel mechanism to explain the positron excesses, which are observed by satellite-based telescopes including PAMELA and AMS-02, in dark matter (DM) scenarios. The novelty behind the proposal is that it makes direct use of DM…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-05-09 Doojin Kim , Jong-Chul Park , Seodong Shin

The Fermi gamma ray space telescope data have pointed towards an excess of gamma rays with a peak around $1-3$ GeV in the region surrounding the galactic center. This anomalous excess can be described well by a dark matter candidate having…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-05-09 Debasish Borah , Arnab Dasgupta

The center of the Milky Way is predicted to be the brightest region of gamma-rays generated by self-annihilating dark matter particles. Excess emission about the Galactic center above predictions made for standard astrophysical processes…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-05-10 Christopher Karwin , Simona Murgia , Tim M. P. Tait , Troy A. Porter , Philip Tanedo

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

We analyze new diffuse gamma-ray data from the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope, which do not confirm an excess in the EGRET data at galactic mid-latitudes, in combination with measurements of electron and positron fuxes from PAMELA, Fermi…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-06-30 V. Barger , Y. Gao , W. -Y. Keung , D. Marfatia , G. Shaughnessy

The direct measurements of the cosmic electron-positron spectrum around 1 TeV made by DAMPE have induced many theoretical speculations about possible excesses in the data above the standard astrophysical predictions that might have the dark…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-07-01 Konstantin Belotsky , Airat Kamaletdinov , Maxim Laletin , Maxim Solovyov

The pseudoscalar resonance or "A-funnel" in the Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model~(MSSM) is a widely studied framework for explaining dark matter that can yield interesting indirect detection and collider signals. The well-known…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-05-04 Katherine Freese , Alejandro Lopez , Nausheen R. Shah , Bibhushan Shakya

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

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

Observations by the Fermi-LAT have uncovered a bright, spherically symmetric excess surrounding the center of the Milky Way galaxy. The spectrum of the gamma-ray excess peaks sharply at an energy ~2 GeV, exhibiting a hard spectrum at lower…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-02-28 Tim Linden , Nicholas L. Rodd , Benjamin R. Safdi , Tracy R. Slatyer

The unexplained excess gamma-ray emission from the Milky Way's Galactic Center has puzzled astronomers for nearly a decade. Two theories strive to explain the origin of this excess: self-annihilating dark matter particles or an unresolved…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-05-10 Oliver Boodram , Craig O. Heinke

Millisecond Pulsars are second most abundant source population discovered by the Fermi-LAT. They might contribute non-negligibly to the diffuse emission measured at high latitudes by Fermi-LAT, the IDGRB. Gamma-ray sources also contribute…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-11-05 F. Calore , M. Di Mauro , F. Donato

The Galactic Center Excess (GCE) remains an enduring mystery, with leading explanations being annihilating dark matter or an unresolved population of millisecond pulsars. Analyzing the morphology of the GCE provides critical clues to…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-06-13 Yi-Ming Zhong , Ilias Cholis

An excess of $\gamma$-ray emission from the Galactic Center (GC) region with respect to predictions based on a variety of interstellar emission models and $\gamma$-ray source catalogs has been found by many groups using data from the {\it…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-10-31 LAT Collaboration

Motivated by the gamma-ray excess observed from the region surrounding the Galactic Center, we explore particle dark matter models that could potentially account for the spectrum and normalization of this signal. Taking a model-independent…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-04 Asher Berlin , Dan Hooper , Samuel D. McDermott

Studies of Fermi data indicate an excess of GeV gamma rays around the Galactic center (GC), possibly due to dark matter. We show that young gamma-ray pulsars can yield a similar signal. First, a high concentration of GC supernovae naturally…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-04-15 Ryan M. O'Leary , Matthew D. Kistler , Matthew Kerr , Jason Dexter

We reconstruct the extra-galactic gamma-ray source-count distribution, or $dN/dS$, of resolved and unresolved sources by adopting machine learning techniques. Specifically, we train a convolutional neural network on synthetic 2-dimensional…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-05-16 Aurelio Amerio , Alessandro Cuoco , Nicolao Fornengo

We analyze the first two years of data from the Fermi Gamma Ray Space Telescope from the direction of the inner 10 degrees around the Galactic Center with the intention of constraining, or finding evidence of, annihilating dark matter. We…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-03-17 Dan Hooper , Lisa Goodenough
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