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Recent studies of Galactic surveys, such as Gaia, have revealed that the Milky Way's gravitational potential comes from a matter distribution that is triaxial and rotated with respect to the Galactic center-Sun axis. This, in turn, could…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-02-25 Leo Qiyuan Hu , Ilias Cholis , Yi-Ming Zhong

The recent analyses of the Fermi Large Area Telescope data show an extended GeV $\gamma$-ray excess on top of the expected diffuse background in the Galactic center region, which can be explained with annihilating dark matter or a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-04-23 Qiang Yuan , Kunihito Ioka

Several groups of authors have analyzed Fermi LAT data in a region around the Galactic Center finding an unaccounted gamma-ray excess over diffuse backgrounds in the GeV energy range. It has been argued that it is difficult or even…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-23 Jovana Petrovic , Pasquale D. Serpico , Gabrijela Zaharijas

Galactic center (GC) is expected to be the brightest source of possible dark matter (DM) annihilation signal. Excess gamma-ray emission has been detected by several groups. Both DM and more conventional astrophysical explanations of the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-02-12 Dmitry Malyshev

Over ten years ago, Fermi observed an excess of GeV gamma rays from the Galactic Center whose origin is still under debate. One explanation for this excess involves annihilating dark matter; another requires an unresolved population of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-08-31 Andrew L. Miller , Yue Zhao

The possible gamma-ray excess in the inner Galaxy and the Galactic center (GC) suggested by Fermi-LAT observations has triggered a large number of studies. It has been interpreted as a variety of different phenomena such as a signal from…

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The presence of an excess gamma-ray signal toward the Galactic center (GC) has now been well established, and is known as the GC excess. Leading explanations for the signal include mis-modeling of the Galactic diffuse emission along the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-03-24 Anne-Katherine Burns , Max Fieg , Christopher M. Karwin , Arvind Rajaraman

The Milky Way's Galactic Center harbors a gamma-ray excess that is a candidate signal of annihilating dark matter. Dwarf galaxies remain predominantly dark in their expected commensurate emission. In this work we quantify the degree of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-05-16 Ryan E. Keeley , Kevork N. Abazajian , Anna Kwa , Nicholas L. Rodd , Benjamin R. Safdi

The Galactic Center Excess (GCE) is an extended gamma-ray source in the central region of the Galaxy found in Fermi Large Area Telescope data. In recent years it has become apparent that the GCE may not be spherically symmetric, but may be…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-09-20 Harrison Ploeg

The characteristics of the Galactic Center Excess (GCE) emission observed in gamma-ray energies -- especially the morphology of the GCE -- remain a hotly debated subject. The manner in which the dominant diffuse gamma-ray background is…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-10-10 Samuel D. McDermott , Yi-Ming Zhong , Ilias Cholis

We present a new Fermi-LAT analysis of the Galactic-center excess (GCE) designed to substantially reduce the dominant systematic uncertainties associated with interstellar-emission and source modeling in the inner Galaxy. Using an optimized…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-05-29 Mattia Di Mauro

We present a potential test of the origin of the $\gamma$-ray Galactic Centre Excess (GCE). We demonstrate how gravitational microlensing by stellar mass objects along the line of sight to the Galactic Bulge can distinguish between the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-08-28 Nada Salama , Florian List , Geraint Lewis

The diffuse Galactic gamma-ray data from the region of the Galactic Center has been collected by the LAT instrument on the Fermi Gamma-Ray Space Telescope. In this paper we argue that it may be able to provide an unambiguous evidence of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2009-09-09 Leszek Roszkowski , Yue-Lin Sming Tsai

Fermi-LAT observations of the Galactic Center (GC) have revealed a spherically- symmetric excess of GeV gamma rays extending to at least 10 deg from the dynamical center of the Galaxy. A critical uncertainty in extracting the intensity,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-09-14 Eric Carlson , Tim Linden , Stefano Profumo

We present a novel interpretation of the $\gamma$-ray diffuse emission measured by Fermi-LAT and H.E.S.S. in the Galactic center (GC) region and the Galactic ridge (GR). In the first part we perform a data-driven analysis based on PASS8…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-07-26 D. Gaggero , D. Grasso , A. Marinelli , M. Taoso , A. Urbano

The Galactic Center Excess (GCE) is an extended gamma-ray source in the central region of the Galaxy found in Fermi Large Area Telescope (Fermi-LAT) data. One of the leading explanations for the GCE is an unresolved population of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-06-15 Harrison Ploeg , Chris Gordon , Roland Crocker , Oscar Macias

Recently, a spatially extended excess of gamma rays collected by the Fermi-LAT from the inner region of the Milky Way has been detected by different groups and with increasingly sophisticated techniques. Yet, any final conclusion about the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-02-11 Francesca Calore , Ilias Cholis , Christoph Weniger

There is evidence for an excess of gamma rays with $O({\rm GeV})$ energy coming from the Galactic Center in data from the Fermi Telescope. The spectrum of the excess is well fit by 30 GeV dark matter annihilating into a pair of $b$ quarks…

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A spherical-symmetric gamma-ray emission from the central region of the Galaxy has been recently identified in Fermi-LAT data, and initially associated to dark matter particle annihilations. Guided by the evidence for a high gas density in…

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