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We calculate the extragalactic diffuse emission originating from the up-scattering of cosmic microwave photons by energetic electrons and positrons produced in particle dark matter annihilation events at all redshifts and in all halos. We…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2009-07-22 Stefano Profumo , Tesla E. Jeltema

Weakly Interacting Massive Particles (WIMPs) are one of the leading candidates for Dark Matter. Currently, the most promising method to detect WIMPs is the direct detection of the recoil energy deposited in a low-background laboratory…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-11-10 Chung-Lin Shan

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

Both diffuse high energy gamma-rays and an extended electron-positron annihilation line emission have been observed in the Galactic Center (GC) region. Although X-ray observations indicate that the galactic black hole Sgr A$^*$ is inactive…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 K. S. Cheng , D. O. Chernyshov , V. A. Dogiel

A new study of the diffuse Galactic gamma-ray continuum radiation is presented, using a cosmic-ray propagation model which includes nucleons, antiprotons, electrons, positrons, and synchrotron radiation. Our treatment of the inverse Compton…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 A. W. Strong , I. V. Moskalenko , O. Reimer

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

I will begin by reviewing the evidence for Dark Matter in the Universe, as well as the candidates for dark matter. At most 20% of the dark matter in galaxies can be in the form of MACHOs (Massive Compact Halo Objects); the remainder appears…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Katherine Freese

We investigate the signatures of neutrinos produced in the annihilation of WIMP dark matter in the Earth, the Sun and at the Galactic centre within the framework of the Inert Doublet Model and extensions. We consider a dark matter…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-01-05 Sarah Andreas , Michel H. G. Tytgat , Quentin Swillens

We examine the expected signal from annihilation events in realistic cold dark matter halos. If the WIMP is a neutralino, with an annihilation cross-section predicted in minimal SUSY models for the lightest stable relic particle, the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 James E. Taylor , Joseph Silk

We consider the diffuse gamma ray data from FERMI first year observations and compare them to the gamma ray fluxes predicted by Dark Matter annihilation or decay (both from prompt emission and from Inverse Compton Scattering), for different…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-13 Marco Cirelli , Paolo Panci , Pasquale D. Serpico

In the frame of indirect dark matter searches we investigate the flux of high-energy $\gamma$-ray photons produced by annihilation of dark matter in caustics within our Galaxy under the hypothesis that the bulk of dark matter is composed of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Lidia Pieri , Enzo Branchini

The EGRET excess in the diffuse galactic gamma ray data above 1 GeV shows all the features expected from Dark Matter WIMP Annihilation: a)it is present and has the same spectrum in all sky directions, not just in the galactic plane. b) The…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 W. de Boer

A search for high-energy neutrinos coming from the direction of the Galactic Centre is performed using the data recorded by the ANTARES neutrino telescope from 2007 to 2012. The event selection criteria are chosen to maximise the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-08-08 ANTARES Collaboration , S. Adrián-Martínez , A. Albert , M. André , G. Anton , M. Ardid , J. -J. Aubert , B. Baret , J. Barrios-Martí , S. Basa , V. Bertin , S. Biagi , C. Bogazzi , R. Bormuth , M. Bou-Cabo , M. C. Bouwhuis , R. Bruijn , J. Brunner , J. Busto , A. Capone , L. Caramete , J. Carr , T. Chiarusi , M. Circella , R. Coniglione , H. Costantini , P. Coyle , A. Creusot , I. Dekeyser , A. Deschamps , G. DeBonis , C. Distefano , C. Donzaud , D. Dornic , D. Drouhin , A. Dumas , T. Eberl , D. Elsässer , A. Enzenhöfer , K. Fehn , I. Felis , P. Fermani , F. Folger , L. A. Fusco , S. Galatà , P. Gay , S. Geißelsöder , K. Geyer , V. Giordano , A. Gleixner , R. Gracia-Ruiz , K. Graf , H. vanHaren , A. J. Heijboer , Y. Hello , J. J. Hernández-Rey , A. Herrero , J. Hößl , J. Hofestädt , C. Hugon , C. WJames , M. deJong , M. Kadler , O. Kalekin , U. Katz , D. Kießling , P. Kooijman , A. Kouchner , I. Kreykenbohm , V. Kulikovskiy , R. Lahmann , G. Lambard , D. Lattuada , D. Lefèvre , E. Leonora , S. Loucatos , M. Marcelin , A. Margiotta , J. A. Martínez-Mora , S. Martini , A. Mathieu , T. Michael , P. Migliozzi , A. Moussa , C. Mueller , M. Neff , E. Nezri , G. E. Păvălaş , C. Pellegrino , C. Perrina , P. Piattelli , V. Popa , T. Pradier , C. Racca , G. Riccobene , R. Richter , K. Roensch , A. Rostovtsev , M. Saldaña , D. F. E. Samtleben , M. Sanguineti , P. Sapienza , J. Schmid , J. Schnabel , S. Schulte , F. Schüssler , T. Seitz , C. Sieger , M. Spurio , J. J. M. Steijger , Th. Stolarczyk , A. Sánchez-Losa , M. Taiuti , C. Tamburini , A. Trovato , M. Tselengidou , C. Tönnis , B. Vallage , C. Vallée , V. VanElewyck , E. Visser , D. Vivolo , S. Wagner , J. Wilms , J. D. Zornoza , J. Zúñiga

The present work analyzes various aspects of M31 gamma-ray halo emission in its relation to annihilating dark matter (DM). The main aspect is the predicted effect of asymmetry of the intensity of emission due to inverse Compton scattering…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-08-28 Andrei E. Egorov

Observations by the WMAP experiment have identified an excess of microwave emission from the center of the Milky Way. It has previously been shown that this "WMAP Haze" could be synchrotron emission from relativistic electrons and positrons…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Dan Hooper , Gabrijela Zaharijas , Douglas P. Finkbeiner , Gregory Dobler

As direct and indirect dark matter detection experiments continue to place stringent constraints on WIMP masses and couplings, it becomes imperative to expand the scope of the search for particle dark matter by looking in new and exotic…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-08-09 M. A. Gomez , C. B. Jackson , G. Shaughnessy

The EGRET telescope has identified a gamma-ray source at the Galactic center. We point out here that the spectral features of this source are compatible with the gamma-ray flux induced by pair annihilations of dark matter weakly interacting…

Excess microwave emission observed in the inner Galaxy (inner ~1 kpc) is consistent with synchrotron emission from highly relativistic electron-positron pairs produced by dark matter particle annihilation. More conventional sources for this…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-04-08 Douglas P. Finkbeiner

The details of what constitutes the majority of the mass that makes up dark matter in the Universe remains one of the prime puzzles of cosmology and particle physics today - eighty years after the first observational indications. Today, it…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-12-16 Stefan Funk

The extended excess toward the Galactic Center (GC) in gamma rays inferred from Fermi-LAT observations has been interpreted as being due to dark matter (DM) annihilation. Here, we perform new likelihood analyses of the GC and show that,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-01-27 Kevork N. Abazajian , Shunsaku Horiuchi , Manoj Kaplinghat , Ryan E. Keeley , Oscar Macias