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For any realistic halo profile, the Galactic Center is predicted to be the brightest source of gamma-rays from dark matter annihilations. Due in large part to uncertainties associated with the dark matter distribution and astrophysical…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-11 Dan Hooper , Chris Kelso , Farinaldo S. Queiroz

A new estimation of the gamma-ray flux that we expect to detect from SUSY dark matter annihilation from the Draco dSph is presented using the DM density profiles compatible with the latest observations. This calculation takes also into…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-23 Miguel A. Sanchez-Conde

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

We implemented a novel technique to perform the collective spectral analysis of sets of multiple gamma-ray point sources using the data collected by the Large Area Telescope onboard the Fermi satellite. The energy spectra of the sources are…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2012-08-02 M. N. Mazziotta , F. Loparco , F. de Palma , N. Giglietto

Recent advances in N-body simulations of cold dark matter halos point to a substantial density enhancement near the center. This means that, e.g., the $\gamma$ ray signals from neutralino dark matter annihilations would be significantly…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-11-30 L. Bergstrom , P. Ullio , J. Buckley

The CACTUS atmospheric Cherenkov telescope collaboration recently reported a gamma-ray excess from the Draco dwarf spheroidal galaxy. Draco features a very low gas content and a large mass-to-light ratio, suggesting as a possible…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Stefano Profumo , Marc Kamionkowski

We study annihilation radiation of neutralinos in the Galactic centre, assuming the existence of a 'spike' in the dark matter density profile, due to adiabatic accretion onto the massive black hole lying at the Galactic centre. Under this…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Gianfranco Bertone , Guenter Sigl , Joseph Silk

In the past decade, gamma-ray observations and radio observations put strong constraints on the parameters of dark matter annihilation. In this article, we suggest another robust way to constrain the parameters of dark matter annihilation.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-08-09 Man Ho Chan

The indirect detection of dark matter requires that dark matter annihilation products be discriminated from conventional astrophysical backgrounds. Here, we re-analyze GeV-band gamma-ray observations of the prominent Milky Way dwarf…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-05 A. N. Baushev , S. Federici , M. Pohl

We study the NGS (Non--dissipative Gravitational Singularity) model, which successfully describes the non--linear stage of evolution of perturbations (see [1], [2] and references therein). This model predicts DM density distribution…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-11-30 V. Berezinsky , A. Bottino , G. Mignola

Dwarf spheroidal galaxies are dark matter dominated systems, and as such, ideal for indirect dark matter searches. If dark matter decays into high-energy photons in the dwarf galaxies, they will be a good target for current and future…

It is widely thought that neutralinos, the lightest supersymmetric particles, could comprise most of the dark matter. If so, then dark halos will emit radio and gamma ray signals initiated by neutralino annihilation. A particularly…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Craig Tyler

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

Recent studies of M31, the Galactic centre, and galaxy clusters have made tentative detections of an X-ray line at ~3.5 keV that could be produced by decaying dark matter. We use high resolution simulations of the Aquarius project to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-11-23 Mark R. Lovell , Gianfranco Bertone , Alexey Boyarsky , Adrian Jenkins , Oleg Ruchayskiy

Possible indirect detection of neutralino, through its gamma-ray annihilation product, by the forthcoming GLAST satellite from our galactic halo, M31, M87 and the dwarf galaxies Draco and Sagittarius is studied. Gamma-ray fluxes are…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Sebastien Peirani , Roya Mohayaee , Jose A. de Freitas Pacheco

The Milky Way's Galactic Center harbors a gamma-ray excess that is a candidate signal of annihilating dark matter. Dwarf galaxies remain predominantly dark in their expected commensurate emission. In this work we quantify the degree of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-05-16 Ryan E. Keeley , Kevork N. Abazajian , Anna Kwa , Nicholas L. Rodd , Benjamin R. Safdi

The dwarf spheroidal galaxies (dSphs) satellites of the Milky Way (MW) are nearby astrophysical laboratories to study the nature of dark matter (DM). We present some properties of the DM halos of the three classical dSphs Fornax, Sculptor…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-11-11 Carlo Nipoti , Raffaele Pascale , José María Arroyo-Polonio

We provide CTA sensitivities to Dark Matter (DM) annihilation in $\gamma$-ray lines, from the observation of the Galactic Center (GC) as well as, for the first time, of dwarf Spheroidal galaxies (dSphs). We compare the GC reach with that of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-09-27 Valentin Lefranc , Emmanuel Moulin , Paolo Panci , Filippo Sala , Joseph Silk

The Milky Way (MW) dwarf spheroidal satellite galaxies (dSphs) are particularly intriguing targets to search for gamma rays from Weakly Interacting Massive Particle (WIMP) dark matter (DM) annihilation or decay. They are nearby,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-11-10 Alex McDaniel , Marco Ajello , Christopher M. Karwin , Mattia Di Mauro , Alex Drlica-Wagner , Miguel A. Sanchez-Conde