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The existence of dark matter (DM) is supported by various macroscopic observations, but its microscopic nature remains elusive. The Galactic Center GeV gamma-ray excess (GCE) has been a leading candidate signal for particle DM annihilation.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-03-03 Ming-Yu Lei , Bei Zhou , Xiaoyuan Huang

I show that the spectrum and morphology of a recent Fermi-LAT observation of the Galaxy center are consistent with a millisecond pulsar population in the nuclear Central stellar cluster of the Milky Way. The Galaxy Center gamma-ray spectrum…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-20 Kevork N. Abazajian

We present a potential test of the origin of the $\gamma$-ray Galactic Centre Excess (GCE). We demonstrate how gravitational microlensing by stellar mass objects along the line of sight to the Galactic Bulge can distinguish between the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-08-28 Nada Salama , Florian List , Geraint Lewis

Gamma-ray data from the Fermi-Large Area Telescope reveal an unexplained, apparently diffuse, signal from the Galactic bulge that peaks near 2 GeV with an approximately spherical intensity profile $\propto r^{-2.4}$ that extends to angular…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-05-03 Anuj Gautam , Roland M. Crocker , Lilia Ferrario , Ashley J. Ruiter , Harrison Ploeg , Chris Gordon , Oscar Macias

The Galactic Center GeV excess (GCE) has garnered great interest as a possible signal of either dark matter annihilation or some novel astrophysical phenomenon, such as a new population of gamma-ray emitting pulsars. In a companion paper,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-09-23 Rebecca K. Leane , Tracy R. Slatyer

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

The Galactic Center Excess (GCE) of GeV gamma rays can be explained as a signal of annihilating dark matter or of emission from unresolved astrophysical sources, such as millisecond pulsars. Evidence for the latter is provided by a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-03-04 Laura J. Chang , Siddharth Mishra-Sharma , Mariangela Lisanti , Malte Buschmann , Nicholas L. Rodd , Benjamin R. Safdi

The Galactic Center Excess (GCE) is an extended gamma-ray source in the central region of the Galaxy found in Fermi Large Area Telescope (Fermi-LAT) data. One of the leading explanations for the GCE is an unresolved population of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-06-15 Harrison Ploeg , Chris Gordon , Roland Crocker , Oscar Macias

It was proposed that the central dense stellar cluster in the Galactic Center, containing the mass of $\sim$4 times larger than that of the central black hole, had been formed as a result of a merging of several massive globular clusters.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-02-12 W. Bednarek , T. Sobczak

The excess of $\gamma$ rays in the data measured by Fermi-LAT from the Galactic center region is one of the most intriguing mysteries in Astroparticle Physics. This Galactic center excess (GCE), has been measured with respect to different…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-05-27 Mattia Di Mauro

The Fermi Large Area Telescope (Fermi-LAT) has recently revealed a large population of gamma-ray emitting millisecond pulsars (MSPs) in our Galaxy. We aim to infer the properties of the Galactic population of gamma-ray emitting MSPs from…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-15 Tristan Grégoire , Jürgen Knödlseder

The center of the Milky Way is offering one of the most striking mystery in Astroparticle Physics. An excess of gamma rays (GCE) has been measured by several groups in the data collected by the Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) towards the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-11-18 Mattia Di Mauro

The GeV-scale gamma-ray excess observed from the region surrounding the Galactic Center has been interpreted as either the products of annihilating dark matter particles, or as the emission from a large population of faint and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-05-10 Celeste Keith , Dan Hooper , Tim Linden

Gamma ray observations have found evidence of an extremely energetic outflow emanating from the Galactic Centre, and an `excess' of emission at GeV energies towards the Galactic Centre over that expected from current models. Determining…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-05-17 Steven N. Longmore , J. M. Diederik Kruijssen

The Fermi satellite has recently detected gamma ray emission from the central regions of our Galaxy. This may be evidence for dark matter particles, a major component of the standard cosmological model, annihilating to produce high-energy…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-10-07 Timothy D. Brandt , Bence Kocsis

The first data from the LHC Run-2 have shown a possible excess in diphoton events with invariant mass $\sim 750$ GeV, suggesting the existence of a new resonance which may decay dominantly into dark matter (DM) particles. We show in a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-06-15 Xian-Jun Huang , Wei-Hong Zhang , Yu-Feng Zhou

We consider the possibility that the excess of cosmic rays near $\sim 10^{18}$ eV, reported by the AGASA and SUGAR groups from the direction of the Galactic Center, is caused by a young, very fast pulsar in the high density medium. The…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 W. Bednarek

We investigate the possibility of the Z3 scalar singlet model explaining the Fermi galactic centre excess. We find a good fit to the measured spectral excess in the region where the dark matter mass is comparable to the Higgs and the Higgs…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-07-20 Yi Cai , Andrew Paul Spray

The leading explanation of the $\textit{Fermi}$ Galactic center $\gamma$-ray excess is the extended emission from a unresolved population of millisecond pulsars (MSPs) in the Galactic bulge. Such a population would, along with the prompt…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-07-20 Oscar Macias , Harm van Leijen , Deheng Song , Shin'ichiro Ando , Shunsaku Horiuchi , Roland M. Crocker

We present a study on the variations of the luminosity function of galaxies around clusters in a numerical simulation with semi-analytic galaxies, attempting to detect these variations in the 2dF Galaxy Redshift Survey. We subdivide the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 R. E. Gonzalez , N. D. Padilla , G. Galaz , L. Infante