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Synchrotron emission from electron cosmic ray populations can be used to study both cosmic rays physics and WIMP dark matter imprints on radio skymaps. We used available radio data - from MHz to GHz - to analyze the contribution from…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-09-19 Roberto A. Lineros

In the last decade radio astronomy has emerged as a powerful technique for detecting signatures of Weakly Interacting Massive Particles (WIMPs). Dwarf spheroidal galaxies (dSphs) are particularly promising targets for these searches due to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-11 Shibre Semane , Geoff Beck , Sphesihle Makhathini , Marco Regis , Gianni Bernardi

In this contribution I review the present status and discuss some prospects for indirect detection of dark matter with gamma-rays. Thanks to the Fermi Large Area Telescope, searches in gamma-rays have reached sensitivities that allow to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 Jan Conrad

Clusters of galaxies, such as the Virgo cluster, host enormous quantities of dark matter, making them prime targets for efforts in indirect dark matter detection via potential radiative signatures from annihilation of dark matter particles…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-30 Sheetal Saxena , Dominik Elsässer , Michael Rüger , Alexander Summa , Karl Mannheim

The annihilation of dark matter particles is expected to yield a broad radiation spectrum via the production of Standard Model particles in astrophysical environments. In particular, electrons and positrons from dark matter annihilation…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-04-14 Emma Storm , Tesla E. Jeltema , Megan Splettstoesser , Stefano Profumo

Multiwavelength observations suggest that clusters are reservoirs of vast amounts relativistic electrons and positrons that are either injected into and accelerated directly in the intra-cluster medium, or produced as secondary pairs by…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-15 Stephan Zimmer , Jan Conrad , Anders Pinzke

Weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs) remain the strongest candidates for the dark matter in the Universe. If WIMPs are the dark matter, they will form galactic halos according to the hierarchical clustering observed in N-body…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Angela V. Olinto , Pasquale Blasi , Craig Tyler

The search for emission from weakly interacting massive particle (WIMP) dark matter annihilation and decay has become a multi-pronged area of research not only targeting a diverse selection of astrophysical objects, but also taking…

We compare the measured angular cross-correlation between the Fermi-LAT gamma-ray sky and catalogues of extra-galactic objects with the expected signal induced by weakly interacting massive particle (WIMP) dark matter (DM). We include a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-10-20 Alessandro Cuoco , Jun-Qing Xia , Marco Regis , Enzo Branchini , Nicolao Fornengo , Matteo Viel

Multifiber optical spectroscopy has been performed on galaxies in the vicinity of strong, nearby radio galaxies. These radio galaxies were selected from the 3CR and B2 catalogs based on their exclusion from the Abell catalog, which is…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Neal A. Miller , Michael J. Ledlow , Frazer N. Owen , John M. Hill

The Galactic center $\gamma$-ray excess, detected by the Fermi-LAT, is a very attractive tentative signal from dark matter annihilation. Searching for associated synchrotron emissions can test the dark matter interpretation for this excess.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-05-18 Wen-Qing Guo , Yichao Li , Xiaoyuan Huang , Yin-Zhe Ma , Geoff Beck , Yogesh Chandola , Feng Huang

In this work we confront dark matter models to constraints that may be derived from radio synchrotron radiation from the Galaxy, taking into account the astrophysical uncertainties and we compare these to bounds set by accelerator and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-05 Yann Mambrini , Michel H. G. Tytgat , Gabrijela Zaharijas , Bryan Zaldivar

The nature of the cosmic dark matter is unknown. The most compelling hypothesis is that dark matter consists of weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs) in the 100 GeV mass range. Such particles would annihilate in the galactic halo,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Edward A. Baltz , James E. Taylor , Lawrence L. Wai

Exploring dark matter via observations of extreme astrophysical environments -- defined here as heavy compact objects such as white dwarfs, neutron stars, and black holes, as well as supernovae and compact object merger events -- has been a…

We study the impact of the recent observation of the radio halo in the Coma galaxy cluster at 6.6 GHz with the Sardinia Radio Telescope on models based on turbulent reacceleration of electrons produced in dark matter annihilation processes.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-22 P. Marchegiani , V. Vacca , F. Govoni , M. Murgia , F. Loi

The electron population inferred to be responsible for the mini-halo within the Ophiuchus galaxy cluster is a steep power-law in energy with a slope of $3.8$. This is substantially different to that predicted by dark matter annihilation…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-04-01 Geoff Beck

In the past decade, some telescopes (e.g. Fermi-LAT, AMS and DAMPE) were launched to detect the signals of annihilating dark matter in our Galaxy. Although some excess of gamma rays, anti-protons and electrons/positrons have been reported…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-09-18 Man Ho Chan , Chak Man Lee

The Fermi Large Area Telescope (Fermi-LAT) has been widely used to search for Weakly Interacting Massive Particle (WIMP) dark matter signals due to its unparalleled sensitivity in the GeV energy band. The leading constraints for WIMP by…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-05-21 Deheng Song , Nagisa Hiroshima , Kohta Murase

If dark matter particles pair annihilate into stable Standard Model particles, a population of energetic, non-thermal electrons and positrons is necessarily produced. The secondary radiation resulting from the energy losses of this…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2010-01-26 Stefano Profumo , Piero Ullio

We present the results of a search for diffuse radio emission in a uniformly selected sample of 30 of the most massive Sunyaev-Zel'dovich selected galaxy clusters at $z > 1$, providing the first statistical constraints on the evolution of…