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Dark matter (DM) particles decaying in the Galactic halo can inject energetic $e^\pm$ that inverse-Compton scatter (ICS) solar photons into $\gamma$-rays, producing a diffuse and extended halo of emission around the Sun. We present the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-04-02 Maximilian Detering , Shyam Balaji

The region surrounding the center of the Milky Way is both astrophysically rich and complex, and is predicted to contain very high densities of dark matter. Utilizing three years of data from the Fermi Gamma Ray Space Telescope (and the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-05-29 Dan Hooper , Tim Linden

The velocity distribution function (VDF) of the hypothetical Weakly Interacting Massive Particles (WIMPs), currently the most favored candidate for the Dark Matter (DM) in the Galaxy, is determined directly from the circular speed…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2013-05-01 Pijushpani Bhattacharjee , Soumini Chaudhury , Susmita Kundu , Subhabrata Majumdar

AMS-02 has reached the sensitivity to probe canonical thermal WIMPs by their annihilation into antiprotons. Due to the high precision of the data, uncertainties in the astrophysical background have become the most limiting factor for…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-02-14 Annika Reinert , Martin Wolfgang Winkler

A recent re-determination of the non-thermal component of the hard X-ray to soft gamma-ray emission from the Galactic ridge, using the SPI instrument on the INTErnational Gamma-Ray Astrophysics Laboratory (INTEGRAL) Observatory, is shown to…

Radio-frequency, indirect dark matter searches have recently been gaining prevalence, due to the high sensitivity and resolution capabilities of the new generation of radio interferometers. MeerKAT is currently one of the most sensitive…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-01-09 Natasha Lavis , Michael Sarkis , Geoff Beck , Kenda Knowles

We examine the constraints on final state radiation from Weakly Interacting Massive Particle (WIMP) dark matter candidates annihilating into various standard model final states, as imposed by the measurement of the isotropic diffuse…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-07-16 Kevork N. Abazajian , Prateek Agrawal , Zackaria Chacko , Can Kilic

It is generally held that >100 TeV emission from astrophysical objects unambiguously demonstrates the presence of PeV protons or nuclei, due to the unavoidable Klein-Nishina suppression of inverse Compton emission from electrons. However,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-03-03 M. Breuhaus , J. Hahn , C. Romoli , B. Reville , G. Giacinti , R. Tuffs , J. A. Hinton

From the relic density measurement by WMAP the WIMP annihilation cross section can be determined in a model independent way. If the WIMPS are postulated to be the neutralinos of Supersymmetry, then only a limited region of the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-09-13 W. de Boer , M. Herold , C. Sander , V. Zhukov

Neutrino detectors participate in the indirect search for the fundamental constituents of dark matter (DM) in form of weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs). In WIMP scenarios, candidate DM particles can pair-annihilate into Standard…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-04-22 The ANTARES Collaboration

The present work derived the robust constraints on annihilating WIMP parameters utilizing new radio observations of M31, as well as new studies of its DM distribution and other properties. The characteristics of emission due to DM…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-02-21 Andrei E. Egorov

The annihilations of WIMPs produce high energy gamma-rays in the final state. These high energy gamma-rays may be detected by IACTs such as the H.E.S.S. array of Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov telescopes. Besides the popular targets such as…

Astrophysics · Physics 2012-08-27 H. E. S. S. Collaboration , : , E. Moulin

The self-annihilation of dark matter particles with mass in the MeV range can produce gamma rays via prompt or secondary radiation. The annihilation rate for such light dark matter particles is however tightly constrained by cosmic…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-10-04 Alma X. Gonzalez-Morales , Stefano Profumo , Javier Reynoso-Córdova

The spectrum of an isotropic extragalactic $\gamma$-ray background (EGB) has been measured by the Fermi-LAT telescope at high latitudes. Two new models for the EGB are derived from the subtraction of unresolved point sources and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-03 F. Donato , F. Calore , V. De Romeri

Weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs) are one of the leading candidates for dark matter. Currently, the most promising method to detect many different WIMP candidates is the direct detection of the recoil energy deposited in a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-10-27 Manuel Drees , Chung-Lin Shan

Indirect searches for dark matter through Standard Model products of its annihilation generally assume a cross-section which is dominated by a term independent of velocity ($s$-wave annihilation). However, in many DM models an $s$-wave…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-05-29 Christian Johnson , Regina Caputo , Chris Karwin , Simona Murgia , Steve Ritz , Jessie Shelton

Fermi has resolved several star-forming galaxies, but the vast majority of the star-forming universe is unresolved and thus contributes to the extragalactic gamma ray background (EGB). Here, we calculate the contribution from star-forming…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 Nachiketa Chakraborty , Brian D. Fields

Galactic diffuse continuum gamma-ray emission is intricately related to cosmic-ray physics and radio astronomy. We describe recent results from an approach which endeavours to take advantage of this. Information from cosmic-ray composition…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-12-13 A. W. Strong , I. V. Moskalenko , O. Reimer

We examine the constraints on models of weakly interacting massive particle (WIMP) dark matter from the recent observations of the Galactic center by the High Energy Spectroscopic System (HESS) telescope. We analyze canonical WIMP…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2012-02-09 Kevork N. Abazajian , J. Patrick Harding

Low energy antideuteron detection presents a unique channel for indirect detection, targeting dark matter that annihilates into hadrons in a relatively background-free way. Since the idea was first proposed, many WIMP-type models have…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-05-26 Lisa Randall , Weishuang Linda Xu