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We incorporate Milky Way dark matter halo profile uncertainties, as well as an accounting of diffuse gamma-ray emission uncertainties in dark matter annihilation models for the Galactic Center Extended gamma-ray excess (GCE) detected by the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-04-20 Kevork N. Abazajian , Ryan E. Keeley

We consider constraints on $p$-wave dark matter in a dark matter spike surrounding the supermassive black hole at the center of M87. Owing to the large mass of the black hole, and resulting large velocity dispersion for the dark matter…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-11-29 Katharena Christy , Jason Kumar , Pearl Sandick

The observation of a gamma-ray line in the cosmic-ray fluxes would be a smoking-gun signature for dark matter annihilation or decay in the Universe. We present an improved search for such signatures in the data of the Fermi Large Area…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2012-08-09 Christoph Weniger

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

Gamma-ray lines from dark matter annihilation ($\chi\chi\to \gamma X$, where $X=\gamma,h,Z$) are always accompanied, at lower energies, by a continuum gamma-ray spectrum stemming both from radiative corrections ($X=\gamma$) and from the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-08-03 Stefano Profumo , Farinaldo S. Queiroz , Carlos E. Yaguna

We study diffuse gamma-ray emission at intermediate Galactic latitudes measured by the Fermi Large Area Telescope with the aim of searching for a signal from dark matter annihilation or decay. In the absence of a robust dark matter signal,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-04-10 G. Zaharijas , J. Conrad , A. Cuoco , Z. Yang

Galaxy clusters are the largest virialised objects in the Universe, and as such, have a high dark matter (DM) concentration. This abundance of dark matter makes them promising targets for indirect DM searches. Here we report the details of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-02-03 Charles Thorpe-Morgan , Denys Malyshev , Christoph-Alexander Stegen , Andrea Santangelo , Josef Jochum

Among the several strategies for indirect searches of dark matter, one very promising one is to look for the gamma-rays from decaying dark matter. Here we use the most up-to-date upper bounds on the gamma-ray flux from $10^5$ to $10^{11}$…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-11-17 Marco Chianese , Damiano F. G. Fiorillo , Rasmi Hajjar , Gennaro Miele , Ninetta Saviano

Dwarf galaxies are widely believed to be among the best targets for indirect dark matter searches using high-energy gamma rays; and indeed gamma-ray emission from these objects has long been a subject of detailed study for ground-based…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2012-01-27 A. Viana , M. C. Medina , J. Peñarrubia , P. Brun , J. F. Glicenstein , K. Kosack , E. Moulin , M. Naumann-Godo , B. Peyaud

Light dark matter annihilating into electron-positron pairs emits a significant amount of internal bremsstrahlung that may contribute to the cosmic gamma-ray background. The amount of emitted gamma-rays depends on the dark matter clumping…

We combine proper motion data from $Gaia$ EDR3 and HST with line-of-sight velocity data to study the stellar kinematics of the Omega Centauri globular cluster. Using a steady-state, axisymmetric dynamical model, we measure the distribution…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-03-23 Addy J. Evans , Louis E. Strigari , Paul Zivick

Galaxy clusters are promising targets for indirect dark matter searches. Gamma-ray signatures from the decay or annihilation of dark matter particles inside these clusters could be observable with the Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT). Based…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-05-30 Xiaoyuan Huang , Gilles Vertongen , Christoph Weniger

In their recent paper, Chan and Lee discuss an interesting possibility: radio continuum emission from a dwarf irregular galaxy may be used to constrain upper limits on the cross section of annihilating dark matter. They claim that the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-03-17 Volker Heesen , Marcus Brüggen

A number of groups have employed radio observations of the Galactic center to derive stringent constraints on the annihilation cross section of weakly interacting dark matter. In this paper, we show that electron energy losses in this…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-02-09 Ilias Cholis , Dan Hooper , Tim Linden

Dark matter annihilation into charged particles is necessarily accompanied by gamma rays, produced via radiative corrections. Internal bremsstrahlung from the final state particles can produce hard gamma rays up to the dark matter mass,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-02-01 Nicole F. Bell , Thomas D. Jacques

MMonochromatic neutrinos from dark matter annihilations ($\chi\chi\to \nu\bar\nu$) are always produced in association with a gamma-ray spectrum generated by electroweak bremsstrahlung. Consequently, these neutrino lines can be searched for…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-07-06 Farinaldo S. Queiroz , Carlos E. Yaguna , Christoph Weniger

We present constraints on decaying and annihilating dark matter (DM) in the 4 keV to 10 GeV mass range, using published results from the satellites HEAO-1, INTEGRAL, COMPTEL, EGRET, and the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope. We derive…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-17 Rouven Essig , Eric Kuflik , Samuel D. McDermott , Tomer Volansky , Kathryn M. Zurek

We update our earlier calculations of gamma ray and radio observational constraints on annihilations of dark matter particles lighter than 10 GeV. We predict the synchrotron spectrum as well as the morphology of the radio emission…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2010-10-01 Celine Boehm , Joseph Silk , Torsten Ensslin

Dark matter annihilation has been proposed to explain the TeV gamma rays observed from the Galactic Center. We study constraints on this hypothesis coming from the mass profile around the Galactic Center measured by observing stellar…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Jeter Hall , Paolo Gondolo

A recent analysis of pulsar timing data has reported evidence for a massive ($\sim 6 \times 10^7 M_{\odot}$) dark matter subhalo located only $\sim 0.8$ kpc from Earth. This candidate implies an exceptionally large $J$-factor of $\sim…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-12-16 Ben-Yang Zhu , Yun-Feng Liang , Xiaoyuan Huang