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We explore models for the GeV Galactic Center Excess (GCE) observed by the Fermi Telescope, focusing on $\chi \chi \rightarrow f \bar f$ annihilation processes in the $Z_3$ NMSSM. We begin by examining the requirements for a simplified…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-10-22 Clifford Cheung , Michele Papucci , David Sanford , Nausheen R. Shah , Kathryn M. Zurek

Several groups have analyzed the publicly-available Fermi-LAT data and reported a spatially extended $\gamma-$ray excess of around $1-3$ GeV from the region surrounding the Galactic Center that might originate from annihilation of dark…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-24 Bei Zhou , Yun-Feng Liang , Xiaoyuan Huang , Xiang Li , Yi-Zhong Fan , Lei Feng , Jin Chang

The $\textit{Fermi}$-LAT Collaboration recently presented a new catalog of gamma-ray sources located within the $40^{\circ} \times 40^{\circ}$ region around the Galactic Center~(Ajello et al. 2017) -- the Second Fermi Inner Galaxy (2FIG)…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-10-31 Richard Bartels , Dan Hooper , Tim Linden , Siddharth Mishra-Sharma , Nicholas L. Rodd , Benjamin R. Safdi , Tracy R. Slatyer

In a recent paper by Hooper and Goodenough, data from the Fermi Gamma Ray Telescope was analyzed and an excess of gamma rays was claimed to be found in the emission spectrum from the Galactic Center Region. Hooper and Goodenough suggest…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-05-11 Gardner Marshall , Reinard Primulando

An excess of gamma rays at GeV energies has been detected in the Fermi-LAT data. This signal comes from a narrow region around the Galactic Center and has been interpreted as possible evidence for light (30 GeV) dark matter particles.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-01-30 Thomas Lacroix

The Milky Way centre exhibits an intense flux in the gamma and X-ray bands, whose origin is partly ascribed to the possible presence of a large population of millisecond pulsars (MSPs) and cataclysmic variables (CVs), respectively. However,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-06-13 Manuel Arca-Sedda , Bence Kocsis , Timothy Brandt

We present a new reconstruction of the distribution of atomic hydrogen in the inner Galaxy that is based on explicit radiation-transport modelling of line and continuum emission and a gas-flow model in the barred Galaxy that provides…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-05-11 Martin Pohl , Oscar Macias , Phaedra Coleman , Chris Gordon

An analytic relation between the statistics of photons in pixels and the number counts of multi-photon point sources is used to constrain the distribution of gamma-ray point sources below the Fermi detection limit at energies above 1 GeV…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-09-06 Dmitry Malyshev , David W. Hogg

We analyze the gamma-ray sky at energies of 0.5 to 50 GeV using the undecimated wavelet transform on the sphere. Focusing on the inner $60^{\circ} \times 60^{\circ}$ of the sky, we identify and characterize four separate residuals beyond…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-08-15 Bhaskaran Balaji , Ilias Cholis , Patrick J. Fox , Samuel D. McDermott

If the gamma-ray excess from the galactic center reported by Fermi-LAT is a signal from annihilating dark matter, one must question why a similar excess has not been observed in dwarf spheroidal galaxies. We use this observation to place…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-03-07 Jeremie Choquette

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

The Galactic Center excess (GCE) of GeV $\gamma$ rays may hint at dark matter (DM), yet its origin remains debated. Motivated by this, we survey weakly interacting massive particle (WIMP) models that can fit the GCE while satisfying…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-04-07 Chuiyang Kong , Mattia Di Mauro

Evidence of excess GeV emission nearly coinciding with the Galactic Centre has been interpreted as a possible signature of annihilating dark matter. In this paper, we argue that it seems too early to discard pulsars as a viable explanation…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-17 N. Mirabal

We present a new method to characterize unresolved point sources (PSs), generalizing traditional template fits to account for non-Poissonian photon statistics. We apply this method to Fermi Large Area Telescope gamma-ray data to…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-02-10 Samuel K. Lee , Mariangela Lisanti , Benjamin R. Safdi , Tracy R. Slatyer , Wei Xue

We attempt to simultaneously explain the recently observed 3.55 keV X-ray line in the analysis of XMM-Newton telescope data and the galactic center gamma ray excess observed by the Fermi gamma ray space telescope within an abelian gauge…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-10-14 Debasish Borah , Arnab Dasgupta , Rathin Adhikari

The origin of the extragalactic gamma-ray background is a pressing cosmological mystery. The Fermi Gamma-Ray Space Telescope has recently measured the intensity and spectrum of this background; both are substantially different from previous…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-11-16 Brian D. Fields , Vasiliki Pavlidou , Tijana Prodanovic

The Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) has revealed a mysterious extended excess of GeV gamma-ray emission around the Galactic Center, which can potentially be explained by unresolved emission from a population of pulsars, particularly…

We present a classically scale-invariant model with a confining dark sector, which is coupled to the Standard Model through the Higgs portal. The galactic centre gamma ray excess can be explained in this model by collision-induced dark…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-23 Matti Heikinheimo , Christian Spethmann

The diffuse Galactic gamma-ray emission is produced by cosmic rays (CRs) interacting with the interstellar gas and radiation field. Measurements by the Energetic Gamma-Ray Experiment Telescope (EGRET) instrument on the Compton Gamma-Ray…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2010-04-23 LAT Collaboration

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