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It has recently been argued that the PAMELA, ATIC and PPB-BETS data showing an anomalous excess of high-energy cosmic ray positrons and electrons might be explained by dark matter annihilating in the Galactic halo with a cross section…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-05 Francis-Yan Cyr-Racine , Stefano Profumo , Kris Sigurdson

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

We introduce EFTCAMB/EFTCosmoMC as publicly available patches to the commonly used CAMB/CosmoMC codes. We briefly describe the structure of the codes, their applicability and main features. To illustrate the use of these patches, we obtain…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-20 Marco Raveri , Bin Hu , Noemi Frusciante , Alessandra Silvestri

If dark matter is composed of neutralinos, the gamma-ray radiation produced in their annihilation offers an attractive possibility for dark matter detection. This process may contribute significantly to the extragalactic gamma-ray…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-01-20 Jesus Zavala , Volker Springel , Michael Boylan-Kolchin

We investigate our knowledge of early universe cosmology by exploring how much additional energy density can be placed in different components beyond those in the $\Lambda$CDM model. To do this we use a method to separate early- and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-04-15 Licia Verde , Emilio Bellini , Cassio Pigozzo , Alan F. Heavens , Raul Jimenez

A commonly encountered obstacle in indirect searches for galactic dark matter is how to disentangle possible signals from astrophysical backgrounds. Given that such signals are most likely subdominant, the search for pronounced spectral…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-03-20 Torsten Bringmann , Xiaoyuan Huang , Alejandro Ibarra , Stefan Vogl , Christoph Weniger

The investigation of distant galaxy formation and evolution is a powerful tool to constrain dark matter scenarios, supporting and in some cases surpassing other astrophysical and experimental probes. The recent completion of the Hubble…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-04-01 Marco Castellano , Nicola Menci , Andrea Grazian , Alexander Merle , Norma G. Sanchez , Aurel Schneider , Maximilian Totzauer

Cosmic microwave background measurements have pushed to higher resolution, lower noise, and more sky coverage. These data enable a unique test of the early universe's expansion rate and constituents such as effective number of relativistic…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-08-05 Alireza Hojjati , Eric V. Linder , Johan Samsing

Using the global 21-cm signal measurement by the EDGES collaboration, we derive constraints on the fraction of the dark matter that is in the form of primordial black holes (PBHs) with masses in the range $10^{15}$-$10^{17}\,$g. Improving…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-03-17 Shikhar Mittal , Anupam Ray , Girish Kulkarni , Basudeb Dasgupta

Utilizing the Fermi measurement of the gamma-ray spectrum toward the Galactic Center, we derive some of the strongest constraints to date on the dark matter (DM) lifetime in the mass range from hundreds of MeV to above an EeV. Our…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-06-24 Timothy Cohen , Kohta Murase , Nicholas L. Rodd , Benjamin R. Safdi , Yotam Soreq

An axion-like field comprising $\sim 10\%$ of the energy density of the universe near matter-radiation equality is a candidate to resolve the Hubble tension; this is the "early dark energy" (EDE) model. However, as shown in Hill et al.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-11-04 Mikhail M. Ivanov , Evan McDonough , J. Colin Hill , Marko Simonović , Michael W. Toomey , Stephon Alexander , Matias Zaldarriaga

Dark matter annihilation in dwarf spheroidal (dSph) galaxies near the Milky Way has the potential to produce a detectable signature in gamma-rays. The amplitude of this signal depends on the dark matter density in a dSph, the dark matter…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-08-09 Eric J. Baxter , Jason Kumar , Andrew B. Pace , Jack Runburg

Recent measurements of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) anisotropies by Planck provide a sensitive probe of dark matter annihilation during the cosmic dark ages, and specifically constrain the annihilation parameter $f_\mathrm{eff}…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-02-03 Tracy R. Slatyer

The GeV$-$TeV $\gamma-$ray line signal is the smoking gun signature of the dark matter annihilation or decay. The detection of such a signal is one of the main targets of some space-based telescopes, including Fermi-LAT and the upcoming…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-18 Tong-Suo Lu , Tie-Kuang Dong , Jian Wu

We argue that a few per cent of "Early Dark Energy" can be detected by the statistics of nonlinear structures. The presence of Dark Energy during linear structure formation is natural in models where the present tiny Dark-Energy density is…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-01-28 Matthias Bartelmann , Michael Doran , Christof Wetterich

The paradigm of the neutralino dark matter predicts that the first gravitationally bound objects are earth-mass sized microhaloes, which would emit annihilation gamma-rays. Here we show that, though the flux from individual nearest…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Takeshi Oda , Tomonori Totani , Masahiro Nagashima

The dark sector of the Universe need not be completely separable into distinct dark matter and dark energy components. We consider a model of early dark energy in which the dark energy mimics a dark matter component in both evolution and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-09-05 Jannis Bielefeld , Robert R. Caldwell , Eric V. Linder

The exact properties of dark matter remain largely unknown despite the accumulating evidence. If dark matter is composed of weakly interacting massive particles, it would be accreted by the black hole in the galactic center and form a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-09-07 Gen-Liang Li , Yong Tang , Yue-Liang Wu

Dark matter (DM) annihilations have been widely studied as a possible explanation of excess gamma rays from the galactic center seen by Fermi/LAT. However most such models are in conflict with constraints from dwarf spheroidals. Motivated…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-07-22 Jeremie Choquette , James M. Cline , Jonathan M. Cornell

Recent gamma-ray observations and radio observations put strong constraints on the parameters of dark matter annihilation. In this article, we derive new constraints for six standard model annihilation channels by using the recent radio…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-08-03 Man Ho Chan