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We report on a search for monochromatic $\gamma$-ray features in the spectra of galaxy clusters observed by the \emph{Fermi} Large Area Telescope. Galaxy clusters are the largest structures in the Universe that are bound by dark matter…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-02-10 B. Anderson , S. Zimmer , J. Conrad , M. Gustafsson , M. Sánchez-Conde , R. Caputo

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) will be able to perform unprecedented observations of the transient very high-energy sky. An on-line science alert generation (SAG) pipeline, with a required 30 second latency, will allow the discovery or…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-07-19 Valentina Fioretti , Deivid Ribeiro , Thomas B. Humensky , Andrea Bulgarelli , Gernot Maier , Abelardo Moralejo , Cosimo Nigro

The central region of the Milky Way is one of the foremost locations to look for dark matter (DM) signatures. We report the first results on a search for DM particle annihilation signals using new observations from an unprecedented…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-09-12 H. E. S. S. Collaboration , H. Abdalla , F. Aharonian , F. Ait Benkhali , E. O. Anguner , C. Armand , H. Ashkar , M. Backes , V. Baghmanyan , V. Barbosa Martins , R. Batzofin , Y. Becherini , D. Berge , K. Bernlohr , B. Bi , M. Bottcher , J. Bolmont , M. de Bony de Lavergne , R. Brose , F. Brun , F. Cangemi , S. Caroff , M. Cerruti , T. Chand , A. Chen , G. Cotter , J. Damascene Mbarubucyeye , J. Devin , A. Djannati-Ataı , A. Dmytriiev , V. Doroshenko , K. Egberts , A. Fiasson , G. Fichet de Clairfontaine , G. Fontaine , S. Funk , S. Gabici , G. Giavitto , D. Glawion , J. F. Glicenstein , M. -H. Grondin , J. A. Hinton , W. Hofmann , T. L. Holch , M. Holler , D. Horns , Zhiqiu Huang , M. Jamrozy , F. Jankowsky , E. Kasai , K. Katarzynski , U. Katz , B. Khelifi , W. Kluzniak , Nu. Komin , K. Kosack , D. Kostunin , G. Lamanna , M. Lemoine-Goumard , J. -P. Lenain , F. Leuschner , T. Lohse , A. Luashvili , I. Lypova , J. Mackey , D. Malyshev , D. Malyshev , V. Marandon , P. Marchegiani , G. Martı-Devesa , R. Marx , G. Maurin , M. Meyer , A. Mitchell , R. Moderski , A. Montanari , E. Moulin , J. Muller , M. de Naurois , J. Niemiec , A. Priyana Noel , S. Ohm , L. Olivera-Nieto , E. de Ona Wilhelmi , M. Ostrowski , S. Panny , M. Panter , R. D. Parsons , G. Peron , V. Poireau , H. Prokoph , G. Puhlhofer , M. Punch , A. Quirrenbach , P. Reichherzer , A. Reimer , O. Reimer , M. Renaud , F. Rieger , G. Rowell , B. Rudak , H. Rueda Ricarte , E. Ruiz-Velasco , V. Sahakian , H. Salzmann , A. Santangelo , M. Sasaki , F. Schussler , H. M. Schutte , U. Schwanke , M. Senniappan , J. N. S. Shapopi , H. Sol , A. Specovius , S. Spencer , L. Stawarz , C. Stegmann , S. Steinmassl , C. Steppa , T. Takahashi , T. Tanaka , R. Terrier , C. Thorpe-Morgan , M. Tluczykont , M. Tsirou , N. Tsuji , Y. Uchiyama , C. van Eldik , J. Veh , J. Vink , S. J. Wagner , R. White , A. Wierzcholska , Yu Wun Wong , M. Zacharias , D. Zargaryan , A. A. Zdziarski , A. Zech , S. J. Zhu , S. Zouari , N. Zywucka

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) is the future ground-based observatory for gamma-ray astronomy at very high energies. The atmosphere is an integral part of every Cherenkov telescope. Different atmospheric conditions, such as clouds, can…

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) is a future very high energy gamma-ray observatory. CTA will be comprised of small-,medium- and large-size telescopes covering an energy range from tens of GeV to hundreds of TeV and will surpass existing…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-14 T. Jogler , M. D. Wood , J. Dumm , A. Bouvier

The upcoming Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) project is expected to provide unprecedented sensitivity in the low-energy (<~100 GeV) range for Cherenkov telescopes. Most of the remaining background in this energy range results from…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-11-29 Julian Sitarek , Dorota Sobczyńska , Michał Szanecki , Katarzyna Adamczyk , Paolo Cumani , Abelardo Moralejo

If dark matter is composed of weakly interacting particles with mass in the GeV-TeV range, their annihilation or decay may produce gamma rays that could be detected by gamma-ray telescopes. Observations of dwarf spheroidal satellite…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-04-30 Javier Rico

Gamma-ray photons can convert into axion-like particles (ALPs) and vice versa when interacting with astrophysical magnetic fields. The conversions of ALPs may have important implications for astrophysics since they would imprint…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-05-02 Miguel A. Sanchez-Conde , Stefan Funk , Frank Krennrich , Amanda Weinstein

Extensions of the Standard Model of particles commonly predict the existence of axion(-like) particles (ALPs) that could be detected through their coupling to photons in external magnetic fields. This coupling could lead to modifications of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-12-11 M. Meyer , J. Conrad

We present a systematic search for potential dark matter clumps in our Galaxy among the 630 unassociated sources included in the LAT 1-year Point Source Catalog. Assuming a dark matter particle that generates observable gamma-ray photons…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-13 D. Nieto , J. Aleksić , J. A. Barrio , J. L. Contreras , M. Doro , S. Lombardi , N. Mirabal , A. Moralejo , S. Pardo , J. Rico , F. Zandanel

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) will perform a survey of the whole Galactic disk with unprecedented sensitivity at energies up to 300 TeV. One of the key science projects of the CTA consortium is the discovery of Galactic PeVatrons…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-09-19 C. Trichard

Searches for annihilating dark matter are often designed with a specific dark matter candidate in mind. However, the space of potential dark matter models is vast, which raises the question: how can we search for dark matter without making…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-09-04 Liam Pinchbeck , Csaba Balazs , Eric Thrane

Dark matter (DM) in the Milky Way halo may annihilate or decay to photons, producing monochromatic gamma rays. We search for DM-induced spectral lines using 14 years of data from the Large Area Telescope onboard the Fermi Gamma-ray Space…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-06-07 Joshua W. Foster , Yujin Park , Benjamin R. Safdi , Yotam Soreq , Weishuang Linda Xu

Monochromatic photons could be produced in the annihilation or decay of dark matter particles. At high energies, the search for such line features in the cosmic gamma-ray spectrum is essentially background free because plausible…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-05-27 Gilles Vertongen , Christoph Weniger

The potential of an array of imaging atmospheric Cherenkov telescopes to detect gamma-ray sources in complex regions has been investigated. The basic characteristics of the gamma-ray instrument have been parametrized using simple analytic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-04-20 Lucia Ambrogi , Emma De Oña Wilhelmi , Felix Aharonian

Ground based Atmospheric Cerenkov Telescopes have recently unveiled a TeV gamma-ray signal from the direction of the Galactic Centre. We examine whether these gamma-rays, observed by the VERITAS, CANGAROO-II and HESS collaborations, may…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Francesc Ferrer

Despite the interest in Dark Matter (DM) searches is currently more focused on underground experiments, a signature of DM annihilation/decay in gamma-rays from space would constitute a smoking gun for its identification. In this…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-15 J. Aleksić , M. Doro , S. Lombardi , D. Nieto , M. Fornasa

In this article, I summarize and discuss the body of evidence which has accumulated in favor of dark matter in the form of approximately 10 GeV particles. This evidence includes the spectrum and angular distribution of gamma rays from the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-01-09 Dan Hooper

The indirect detection of dark matter particles with mass below the GeV scale has recently received significant attention. Future space-borne gamma-ray telescopes, including All-Sky-ASTROGAM, AMEGO, and GECCO, will probe the MeV gamma-ray…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-08-25 Adam Coogan , Logan Morrison , Stefano Profumo

In my contribution I review the status of indirect detection of dark matter with gamma-rays, including results of the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope as well as Imaging Air Cherenkov Telescopes (IACT), like H.E.S.S., MAGIC and VERITAS. I…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-03-30 Jan Conrad