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The Galactic Center region is expected to host the largest density of Dark Matter (DM) particles within the Milky Way. Then a relatively large gamma-ray signal would be expected from the possible DM particles annihilation (or decay). We are…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-14 Vincenzo Vitale , Aldo Morselli

The Galactic center excess (GCE) remains one of the most intriguing discoveries from the Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) observations. We revisit the characteristics of the GCE by first producing a new set of high-resolution galactic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-05-24 Ilias Cholis , Yi-Ming Zhong , Samuel D. McDermott , Joseph P. Surdutovich

Past studies have identified a spatially extended excess of $\sim$1-3 GeV gamma rays from the region surrounding the Galactic Center, consistent with the emission expected from annihilating dark matter. We revisit and scrutinize this signal…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-02-24 Tansu Daylan , Douglas P. Finkbeiner , Dan Hooper , Tim Linden , Stephen K. N. Portillo , Nicholas L. Rodd , Tracy R. Slatyer

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…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-22 Francesca Calore , Ilias Cholis , Christoph Weniger

The Fermi Large Area Telescope has provided the most detailed view toward the Galactic Centre (GC) in high-energy gamma rays. Besides the interstellar emission and point-source contributions, the data suggest a residual diffuse gamma-ray…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-02-07 Giacomo Fragione , Fabio Antonini , Oleg Y. Gnedin

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…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-03 Seyda Ipek

During the last decades, increasingly precise astronomical observations of the Galactic Centre (GC) region at radio, infrared, and X-ray wavelengths laid the foundations to a detailed understanding of the high energy astroparticle physics…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-25 Christopher van Eldik

Over the past few years, there has been a hint of the $\gamma$-ray excess observed by the Fermi-LAT satellite borne telescope from the regions surrounding the Galactic Centre at an energy range $\sim 1$-$3$ GeV. The nature of this excess…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-03-21 Anirban Biswas

The gamma-ray Fermi-LAT Galactic centre excess (GCE) has puzzled scientists for over 15 years. Despite ongoing debates about its properties, and especially its spatial distribution, its nature remains elusive. We scrutinize how the…

The excess of $\gamma$ rays in the data measured by Fermi-LAT from the Galactic center region is one of the most intriguing mysteries in Astroparticle Physics. This Galactic center excess (GCE), has been measured with respect to different…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-05-27 Mattia Di Mauro

The singlet-doublet fermion dark matter model (SDFDM) provides a good DM candidate as well as the possibility of generating neutrino masses radiatively. The search and identification of DM requires the combined effort of both indirect and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-03-30 Shunsaku Horiuchi , Oscar Macias , Diego Restrepo , Andres Rivera , Hamish Silverwood , Oscar Zapata

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 Galactic Center Excess (GCE) $\gamma$-ray emission detected with the Large Area Telescope onboard the {\it Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope} has been considered as a possible sign for dark matter (DM) annihilation, but other…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-11-14 Yi Xing , Zhongxiang Wang , Feng Huang

Statistical evidence has previously suggested that the Galactic Center GeV Excess (GCE) originates largely from point sources, and not from annihilating dark matter. We examine the impact of unmodeled source populations on identifying the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-12-18 Rebecca K. Leane , Tracy R. Slatyer

We consider a simple extension of the type-II two-Higgs-doublet model by introducing a real scalar as a candidate for dark matter in the present Universe. The main annihilation mode of the dark matter particle with a mass of around $31-40$…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-12-30 Nobuchika Okada , Osamu Seto

We incorporate Milky Way dark matter halo profile uncertainties, as well as an accounting of diffuse gamma-ray emission uncertainties in dark matter annihilation models for the Galactic Center Extended gamma-ray excess (GCE) detected by the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-04-20 Kevork N. Abazajian , Ryan E. Keeley

The Galactic Center Excess (GCE) of GeV gamma rays can be explained as a signal of annihilating dark matter or of emission from unresolved astrophysical sources, such as millisecond pulsars. Evidence for the latter is provided by a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-03-04 Laura J. Chang , Siddharth Mishra-Sharma , Mariangela Lisanti , Malte Buschmann , Nicholas L. Rodd , Benjamin R. Safdi

The existence of dark matter (DM) is supported by various macroscopic observations, but its microscopic nature remains elusive. The Galactic Center GeV gamma-ray excess (GCE) has been a leading candidate signal for particle DM annihilation.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-03-03 Ming-Yu Lei , Bei Zhou , Xiaoyuan Huang

We propose a novel mechanism enabling us to have a continuum bump as a signature of gamma-ray excess in indirect detection experiments of dark matter (DM), postulating a generic dark sector having (at least) two DM candidates. With the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-02-25 Doojin Kim , Jong-Chul Park

Studies of Fermi data indicate an excess of GeV gamma rays around the Galactic center (GC), possibly due to dark matter. We show that young gamma-ray pulsars can yield a similar signal. First, a high concentration of GC supernovae naturally…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-04-15 Ryan M. O'Leary , Matthew D. Kistler , Matthew Kerr , Jason Dexter