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Atmospheric Cerenkov Telescopes, including HESS and MAGIC, have detected a spectrum of gamma-rays from the galactic center region which extends from $\sim$200 GeV or lower, to at least $\sim$10 TeV. Although the source of this radiation is…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Gabrijela Zaharijas , Dan Hooper

We present a study of the Galactic Center region as a possible source of both secondary gamma-ray and neutrino fluxes from annihilating dark matter. We have studied the gamma-ray flux observed by the High Energy Stereoscopic System (HESS)…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-04-10 V. Gammaldi , J. A. R. Cembranos , A. de la Cruz-Dombriz , R. A. Lineros , A. L. Maroto

The public data from the EGRET space telescope on diffuse galactic gamma rays in the energy range from 0.1 to 10 GeV show an excess for energies above 1 GeV in comparison with the expectations from conventional galactic models. This excess…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 W. de Boer

The adiabatic growth of a black hole (BH) may enhance the dark matter (DM) density surrounding it, causing a spike in the DM density profile. The spike around the supermassive BH at the center of the Milky Way may lead to a dramatic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-03-16 Tian-Ci Liu , Ji-Gui Cheng , Yun-Feng Liang , En-Wei Liang

The Weakly Interacting Massive Particle (WIMP) has been one of the most attractive candidates for Dark Matter (DM), and the lightest neutralino ($\widetilde{\chi}^0_1$) in the Next-to-Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model (NMSSM) is an…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-06-13 Liangliang Shang , Yangle He , Jingwei Lian , Yusi Pan

Gamma-ray data from the Fermi-Large Area Telescope reveal an unexplained, apparently diffuse, signal from the Galactic bulge that peaks near 2 GeV with an approximately spherical intensity profile $\propto r^{-2.4}$ that extends to angular…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-05-03 Anuj Gautam , Roland M. Crocker , Lilia Ferrario , Ashley J. Ruiter , Harrison Ploeg , Chris Gordon , Oscar Macias

The presence of dark matter in the Universe is nowadays widely supported by a large body of astronomical and cosmological observations. One of the best targets to look for dark matter particle self-annihilation into very high energy…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-14 V. Lefranc , E. Moulin

It was found in the Fermi-LAT data that there is an extended $\gamma$-ray excess in the Galactic center region. The proposed sources to be responsible for the excess include the dark matter annihilation or an astrophysical alternative from…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-08-05 Qiang Yuan , Bing Zhang

The GLAST satellite mission will study the gamma ray sky with considerably greater exposure than its predecessor EGRET. In addition, it will be capable of measuring the arrival directions of gamma rays with much greater precision. These…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Scott Dodelson , Dan Hooper , Pasquale D. Serpico

We propose to test the dark matter (DM) interpretation of the positron excess observed by the PAMELA cosmic-ray (CR) detector through the identification of a Galactic diffuse gamma-ray component associated to DM-induced prompt and radiative…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2009-09-01 Marco Regis , Piero Ullio

The center of the Milky Way is one of the most interesting regions of the $\gamma$-ray sky because of the potential for indirect dark matter (DM) detection. It is also complicated due to the many sources and uncertainties associated with…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-10-10 German A. Gomez-Vargas

We propose that the nature of indirect signals of dark matter (DM) can depend on the Galactic environment they originate from. We demonstrate this possibility in models where DM annihilates into light mediators whose branching fractions…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-03-31 Hooman Davoudiasl , Julia Gehrlein

We explore models for the GeV Galactic Center Excess (GCE) observed by the Fermi Telescope, focusing on $\chi \chi \rightarrow f \bar f$ annihilation processes in the $Z_3$ NMSSM. We begin by examining the requirements for a simplified…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-10-22 Clifford Cheung , Michele Papucci , David Sanford , Nausheen R. Shah , Kathryn M. Zurek

The inner region of the Milky Way is one of the most interesting and complex regions of the gamma-ray sky. The intense interstellar emission and resolved point sources, as well as potential contributions by other sources such as unresolved…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-13 Troy A. Porter , Simona Murgia

The density spike of dark matter (DM) in the subparsec region near the supermassive black hole at the Galactic Center can provide potentially observable gamma-ray signals coming from DM annihilations. Taking Fermi-$LAT$ data for the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-08-08 Pearl Sandick , Kuver Sinha , Takahiro Yamamoto

We fit the $\gamma$-ray excess from the galactic centre (GC) in terms of parameters of the minimal supersymmetric standard model (MSSM). Consistency with other $\gamma$-ray observation, such as those from dwarf spheroidal galaxies, is also…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-02-27 Arpan Kar , Sourav Mitra , Biswarup Mukhopadhyaya , Tirthankar Roy Choudhury

A statistically significant excess of gamma rays has been reported and robustly confirmed in the Galactic Center over the past decade. Large local dark matter densities suggest that this Galactic Center Excess (GCE) may be attributable to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-04-20 Katherine Fraser , Aditya Parikh , Weishuang Linda Xu

Millisecond pulsars (MSPs) are a leading explanation of the Galactic Center excess (GCE) observed in Fermi-LAT data. We constrain this scenario by jointly modeling prompt and inverse-Compton $\gamma$ rays from MSP-injected $e^\pm$ on the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-05-27 Jordan Koechler , Pedro De la Torre Luque , Mattia Di Mauro

The Galactic Center Excess (GCE) remains an enduring mystery, with leading explanations being annihilating dark matter or an unresolved population of millisecond pulsars. Analyzing the morphology of the GCE provides critical clues to…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-06-13 Yi-Ming Zhong , Ilias Cholis

We conduct an indirect dark matter (DM) search in the Galactic Center, focusing on a square region within $\pm 9^{\circ}$ in Galactic longitude and latutide, using 2,865 days of data ($\sim$8 years) from the High-Altitude Water Cherenkov…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-03-09 R. Alfaro , C. Alvarez , A. Andrés , E. Anita-Rangel , M. Araya , J. C. Arteaga-Velázquez , D. Avila Rojas , H. A. Ayala Solares , R. Babu , P. Bangale , A. Bernal , K. S. Caballero-Mora , T. Capistrán , A. Carramiñana , F. Carreón , S. Casanova , A. L. Colmenero-Cesar , U. Cotti , J. Cotzomi , S. Coutiño de León , E. De la Fuente , D. Depaoli , P. Desiati , N. Di Lalla , R. Diaz Hernandez , B. L. Dingus , M. A. DuVernois , J. C. Díaz-Vélez , K. Engel , T. Ergin , C. Espinoza , K. Fang , N. Fraija , S. Fraija , J. A. Garcéa-González , F. Garfias , N. Ghosh , H. Goksu , A. Gonzalez Muñoz , M. M. González , J. A. González , J. A. Goodman , S. Groetsch , J. Gyeong , J. P. Harding , S. Hernández-Cadena , I. Herzog , J. Hinton , D. Huang , F. Hueyotl-Zahuantitla , P. Hüntemeyer , A. Iriarte , S. Kaufmann , D. Kieda , A. Lara , K. Leavitt , W. H. Lee , J. Lee , H. León Vargas , J. T. Linnemann , A. L. Longinotti , G. Luis-Raya , K. Malone , O. Martinez , J. Martínez-Castro , H. Martínez-Huerta , J. A. Matthews , J. McEnery , P. Miranda-Romagnoli , P. E. Mirón-Enriquez , J. A. Montes , J. A. Morales-Soto , E. Moreno , M. Mostafá , M. Najafi , A. Nayerhoda , L. Nellen , M. U. Nisa , R. Noriega-Papaqui , N. Omodei , M. Osorio-Archila , E. Ponce , Y. Pérez Araujo , E. G. Pérez-Pérez , C. D. Rho , A. Rodriguez Parra , D. Rosa-González , M. Roth , H. Salazar , D. Salazar-Gallegos , A. Sandoval , M. Schneider , J. Serna-Franco , A. J. Smith , Y. Son , R. W. Springer , O. Tibolla , K. Tollefson , I. Torres , R. Torres-Escobedo , R. Turner , F. Ureña-Mena , E. Varela , L. Villaseñor , X. Wang , Z. Wang , I. J. Watson , H. Wu , S. Yu , S. Yun-Cárcamo , H. Zhou , C. de León