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Dark Matter annihilation holds great potential for directly probing the clumpiness of the Galactic halo that is one of the key predictions of the Cold Dark Matter paradigm of hierarchical structure formation. Here we review the gamma-ray…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-13 Michael Kuhlen

We consider resonant inverse Compton scattering of thermal photons by secondary particles above the pulsar polar gap. The process appears to be an essential energy loss mechanism for the particles. The distribution function of the secondary…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Y. E. Lyubarskii , S. A. Petrova

Among various approaches for indirect detection of dark matter, synchrotron emission due to secondary electrons/positrons produced in galactic WIMPs annihilation is raising an increasing interest. In this paper we propose a new method to…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2010-01-15 Enrico Borriello , Giuseppe Longo , Gennaro Miele , Maurizio Paolillo , Beatriz B. Siffert , Fatemeh S. Tabatabaei , Rainer Beck

The hierarchical clustering observed in cold dark matter simulations results in highly clumped galactic halos. If the dark matter in our halo is made of weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs), their annihilation products should be…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 P. Blasi , A. V. Olinto , C. Tyler

Heavy Weakly Interacting Massive Particles (WIMPs) remain a prominent yet less constrained dark matter (DM) candidate, with the Galactic Centre (GC) serving as a prime target for indirect detection via gamma-ray signals. Extending our…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-01-06 Rajat Shinde , Julia Djuvsland , Davide Dapaoli , Jim Hinton

In this paper we study the detectability of $\gamma$-rays from dark matter annihilation in the subhalos of the Milky Way by the satellite-based experiments, EGRET and GLAST. We work in the frame of supersymmetric extension of the standard…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Xiao-Jun Bi

As the largest mass concentrations in the local Universe, nearby clusters of galaxies and their central galaxies are prime targets in searching for indirect signatures of dark matter annihilation (DMA). We seek to constrain the dark matter…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-03 Sheetal Saxena , Alexander Summa , Dominik Elsässer , Michael Rüger , Karl Mannheim

Clusters of galaxies, such as the Virgo cluster, host enormous quantities of dark matter, making them prime targets for efforts in indirect dark matter detection via potential radiative signatures from annihilation of dark matter particles…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-30 Sheetal Saxena , Dominik Elsässer , Michael Rüger , Alexander Summa , Karl Mannheim

Shocks around clusters of galaxies accelerate electrons which upscatter the Cosmic Microwave Background photons to higher-energies. We use an analytical model to calculate this inverse Compton (IC) emission, taking into account the effects…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-09-09 Ryo Yamazaki , Abraham Loeb

Assuming Galactic positrons do not go far before annhilating, a difference between the observed 511 keV annihilation flux distribution and that of positron production, expected from beta-plus decay in Galactic iron nucleosynthesis, was…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2009-09-02 R. E. Lingenfelter , J. C. Higdon , R. E. Rothschild

Dark Matter annihilation (DMA) may yield an excess of gamma rays and antimatter particles, like antiprotons and positrons, above the background from cosmic ray interactions. The excess of diffuse Galactic Gamma Rays from EGRET shows all the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-05-13 W. de Boer

A generic feature of weakly interacting massive particle (WIMP) dark matter models is the emission of photons over a broad energy band resulting from the stable yields of dark matter pair annihilation. Inverse Compton scattering off cosmic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Tesla E. Jeltema , Stefano Profumo

Observations of diffuse Galactic gamma ray emission (DGE) by the Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) allow a detailed study of cosmic rays and the interstellar medium. However, diffuse emission models of the inner Galaxy underpredict the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-04-03 Lin F. Yang , Joseph Silk , Alexander S. Szalay , Rosemary F. G. Wyse , Brandon Bozek , Piero Madau

One of the key predictions of the WIMP paradigm for Dark Matter (DM) is that DM particles can annihilate into charged particles. These annihilations will proceed in e.g. Galactic subhalos such as dwarf Galaxies or, as recently pointed out,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-11-14 Natacha Leite , Robin Reuben , Guenter Sigl , Michel H. G. Tytgat , Martin Vollmann

Motivated by the PAMELA anomaly in the fluxes of cosmic-ray positron and electron, we study the cosmic gamma-ray induced by the inverse Compton (IC) scattering process in unstable dark matter scenario assuming that the anomaly is due to the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-05-14 Koji Ishiwata , Shigeki Matsumoto , Takeo Moroi

A series of experiments measuring high-energy cosmic rays have recently reported strong indications for the existence of an excess of high-energy electrons and positrons. If interpreted in terms of the decay of dark matter particles, the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-01-15 Alejandro Ibarra , David Tran , Christoph Weniger

We show that inverse Compton scattering of cosmic-microwave-background and starlight photons by cosmic-ray electrons in the interstellar and intergalactic space explains well the spectrum and intensity of the diffuse gamma-ray background…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Shlomo Dado , Arnon Dar , A De Rujula

The annihilation of dark matter particles in the halo of galaxies may end up into gamma rays, which travel almost unperturbed till to their detection at Earth. This annihilation signal can exhibit an anisotropic behavior quantified by the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-06-19 F. Calore , V. De Romeri , M. Di Mauro , F. Donato , J. Herpich , A. V. Maccio' , L. Maccione

Diffuse emission from the Milky Way dominates the gamma-ray sky. About 80% of the high-energy luminosity of the Milky Way comes from processes in the interstellar medium. The Galactic diffuse emission traces interactions of energetic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-02-25 T. A. Porter , S. W. Digel , I. A. Grenier , I. V. Moskalenko , A. W. Strong

The astronomical dark matter could be made of weakly interacting and massive particles. If so, these species would be abundant inside the Milky Way, where they would continuously annihilate and produce cosmic rays. Those annihilation…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2012-11-05 Julien Lavalle , Pierre Salati