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It has been proposed that during the formation of the first generation stars there might be a "dark star" phase in which the power of the star comes from dark matter annihilation. The adiabatic contraction process to form the dark star…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-04-20 Qiang Yuan , Bin Yue , Bing Zhang , Xuelei Chen

The very large (100-1000) mass-to-light ratio applicable to the ultra-faint dwarf galaxies (UFDs) implies a high concentration of dark matter, thus rendering them ideal theatres for indirect signatures of dark matter. In this paper, we…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-07-12 Pooja Bhattacharjee , Debajyoti Choudhury , Kasinath Das , Dilip Kumar Ghosh , Pratik Majumdar

We present all-sky simulated Fermi maps of gamma-rays from dark matter decay and annihilation in the Local Universe. The dark matter distribution is obtained from a constrained cosmological simulation of the neighboring large-scale…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-19 A. J. Cuesta , T. E. Jeltema , F. Zandanel , S. Profumo , F. Prada , G. Yepes , A. Klypin , Y. Hoffman , S. Gottloeber , J. Primack , M. A. Sanchez-Conde , C. Pfrommer

Galaxy clusters are one of the prime sites to search for dark matter (DM) annihilation signals. Depending on the substructure of the DM halo of a galaxy cluster and the cross sections for DM annihilation channels, these signals might be…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-08-07 M. Ackermann , M. Ajello , A. Albert , W. B. Atwood , L. Baldini , G. Barbiellini , D. Bastieri , K. Bechtol , R. Bellazzini , E. Bissaldi , E. D. Bloom , R. Bonino , E. Bottacini , T. J. Brandt , J. Bregeon , P. Bruel , R. Buehler , S. Buson , G. A. Caliandro , R. A. Cameron , R. Caputo , M. Caragiulo , P. A. Caraveo , J. M. Casandjian , E. Cavazzuti , C. Cecchi , E. Charles , A. Chekhtman , G. Chiaro , S. Ciprini , J. Cohen-Tanugi , J. Conrad , S. Cutini , F. D'Ammando , A. de Angelis , F. de Palma , R. Desiante , S. W. Digel , L. Di Venere , P. S. Drell , C. Favuzzi , S. J. Fegan , W. B. Focke , A. Franckowiak , Y. Fukazawa , S. Funk , P. Fusco , F. Gargano , D. Gasparrini , N. Giglietto , F. Giordano , M. Giroletti , T. Glanzman , G. Godfrey , G. A. Gomez-Vargas , I. A. Grenier , S. Guiriec , M. Gustafsson , J. W. Hewitt , A. B. Hill , D. Horan , T. E. Jeltema , T. Jogler , A. S. Johnson , M. Kuss , S. Larsson , L. Latronico , J. Li , L. Li , F. Longo , F. Loparco , M. N. Lovellette , P. Lubrano , S. Maldera , D. Malyshev , A. Manfreda , M. Mayer , M. N. Mazziotta , P. F. Michelson , T. Mizuno , M. E. Monzani , A. Morselli , I. V. Moskalenko , S. Murgia , E. Nuss , T. Ohsugi , M. Orienti , E. Orlando , J. F. Ormes , D. Paneque , J. S. Perkins , M. Pesce-Rollins , V. Petrosian , F. Piron , G. Pivato , T. A. Porter , S. Rainò , R. Rando , M. Razzano , A. Reimer , O. Reimer , M. Sánchez-Conde , A. Schulz , C. Sgró , E. J. Siskind , F. Spada , G. Spandre , P. Spinelli , E. Storm , H. Tajima , H. Takahashi , J. B. Thayer , D. F. Torres , G. Tosti , E. Troja , G. Vianello , K. S. Wood , M. Wood , G. Zaharijas , S. Zimmer , A. Pinzke

Annihilating dark matter particles in nearby subhalos could generate potentially observable fluxes of gamma rays, unaccompanied by emission at other wavelengths. Furthermore, this gamma-ray emission is expected to be spatially extended,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-09-26 Ti-Lin Chou , Dimitrios Tanoglidis , Dan Hooper

We analyze the recently published Fermi-LAT diffuse gamma-ray measurements in the context of leptonically annihilating or decaying dark matter (DM) with the aim to explain simultaneously the isotropic diffuse gamma-ray and the PAMELA, Fermi…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-11-20 Gert Hütsi , Andi Hektor , Martti Raidal

We study the cross-correlation between maps of the unresolved $\gamma$-ray background constructed from the 12-year data release of the Fermi Large-Area Telescope, and the overdensity of galaxies in the redshift range $z\lesssim0.4$ as…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-05-29 Anya Paopiamsap , David Alonso , Deaglan J. Bartlett , Maciej Bilicki

We make a detailed analysis of the indirect diffuse gamma-ray signals from dark matter annihilation in the Galaxy. We include the prompt emission, as well as the emission from inverse Compton scattering whenever the annihilation products…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2012-11-14 Steve Blanchet , Julien Lavalle

We derive new bounds on decaying Dark Matter from the gamma ray measurements of (i) the isotropic residual (extragalactic) background by Fermi and (ii) the Fornax galaxy cluster by HESS. We find that those from (i) are among the most…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 Marco Cirelli , Emmanuel Moulin , Paolo Panci , Pasquale D. Serpico , Aion Viana

We study spectral features in the gamma-ray emission from dark matter (DM) annihilation in the Next-to-Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model (NMSSM), with either neutralino or right-handed (RH) sneutrino DM. We perform a series of scans…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-04-07 D. G. Cerdeno , M. Peiro , S. Robles

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

The recent results from the PAMELA, ATIC, FERMI and HESS experiments have focused attention on the possible existence of high energy cosmic ray e^+ e^- that may originate from dark matter (DM) annihilations or decays in the Milky Way. Here…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2011-01-19 Celine Boehm , Timur Delahaye , Joseph Silk

Recent gamma-ray and radio observations provide stringent constraints for annihilating dark matter. The current $2\sigma$ lower limits of dark matter mass can be constrained to $\sim 100$ GeV for thermal relic annihilation cross section. In…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-01-05 Man Ho Chan , Chak Man Lee

Using 3.7 years of \Fermi-LAT data, we examine the diffuse 80-200 GeV emission in the inner Galaxy and find a resolved gamma-ray feature at $\sim 110-140$ GeV. We model the spatial distribution of this emission with a $\sim3\degree$ FWHM…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2012-06-15 Meng Su , Douglas P. Finkbeiner

We show the presence of a potentially detectable gamma-ray line in the Fermi Galactic center excess in light of the secluded (vector) dark matter (DM) model in which the hidden scalar, nearly degenerate with DM in mass, mediates the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-08-26 Kwei-Chou Yang

A new estimation of the isotropic diffuse gamma-ray background (IGRB) observed by the Large Area Telescope (LAT) on board the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope (Fermi) has been presented for 50 months of data, in the energy range 100 MeV-820…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-05-17 Mattia Di Mauro , Fiorenza Donato

The quest for Dark Matter signals in the gamma-ray sky is one of the most intriguing and exciting challenges in astrophysics. In this paper we perform the analysis of the energy spectrum of the \textit{Fermi bubbles} at different latitudes,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-12-31 Wei-Chih Huang , Alfredo Urbano , Wei Xue

In this article, we review the prospects for the Fermi satellite (formerly known as GLAST) to detect gamma rays from dark matter annihilations in the Central Region of the Milky Way, in particular on the light of the recent astrophysical…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-03-13 Pasquale Dario Serpico , Dan Hooper

We use diffuse Galactic high energy gamma ray data from LHAASO and Fermi-LAT to constrain gravitationally produced decaying dark matter (DM). Focusing on four benchmark candidates: a dark photon, a heavy right-handed neutrino (RHN), a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-12-12 Basabendu Barman , Arindam Das , Prantik Sarmah , Rakesh Kumar SivaKumar

We use 7 years of electron and positron Fermi-LAT data to search for a possible excess in the direction of the Sun in the energy range from 42 GeV to 2 TeV. In the absence of a positive signal we derive flux upper limits which we use to…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-01-15 A. Cuoco , P. De La Torre Luque , F. Gargano , M. Gustafsson , F. Loparco , M. N. Mazziotta , D. Serini