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The EGRET excess in the diffuse galactic gamma ray data above 1 GeV shows all features expected from Dark Matter WIMP Annihilation: a)it is present and has the same spectrum in all sky directions, not just in the galactic plane. b) The…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 W. de Boer

The diffuse galactic EGRET gamma ray data show a clear excess for energies above 1 GeV in comparison with the expectations from conventional galactic models. The excess is seen with the same spectrum in all sky directions, as expected for…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-10 W. de Boer

The diffuse galactic EGRET gamma ray data show a clear excess for energies above 1 GeV in comparison with the expectations from conventional galactic models. The excess is seen with the same spectrum in all sky directions, as expected for…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 W. de Boer , M. Herold , C. Sander , V. Zhukov , A. V. Gladyshev , D. I. Kazakov

The public data from the EGRET space telescope on diffuse Galactic gamma rays in the energy range from 0.1 to 10 GeV are reanalyzed with the purpose of searching for signals of Dark Matter annihilation (DMA). The analysis confirms the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 W. de Boer , C. Sander , V. Zhukov , A. V. Gladyshev , D. I. Kazakov

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 diffuse galactic EGRET gamma ray data show a clear excess for energies above 1 GeV in comparison with the expectations from conventional galactic models. This excess shows all the features expected from Dark Matter WIMP Annihilation:…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-09-29 W. de Boer , I. Gebauer , C. Sander , M. Weber , V. Zhukov

Elsaesser and Mannheim fit a contribution of Dark Matter Annihilation (DMA) to the extragalactic contribution of the galactic diffuse gamma ray flux, as deduced from the EGRET data by Strong, Moskalenko and Reimer.They find a WIMP mass of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 W. de Boer , C. Sander , V. Zhukov , A. V. Gladyshev , D. I. Kazakov

Recently it was shown that the excess of diffuse Galactic gamma rays above 1 GeV could be interpreted as a Dark Matter annihilation signal. From the spectral shape of the excess it is possible to determine a range for the allowed WIMP mass…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-10-25 Christian Sander

The excess of diffuse galactic gamma rays above 1 GeV, as observed by the EGRET telescope on the NASA Compton Gamma Ray Observatory, shows all the key features from Dark Matter (DM) annihilation: (i) the energy spectrum of the excess is the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-10-29 W. de Boer , I. Gebauer , M. Weber , C. Sander , V. Zhukov , D. Kazakov

The EGRET excess of diffuse Galactic gamma rays shows all the key features of dark matter annihilation (DMA) for a WIMP mass in the range 50-100 GeV, especially the distribution of the excess is compatible with a standard halo profile with…

Astrophysics · Physics 2017-08-23 Wim de Boer

A sophisticated analysis of EGRET data has found evidence for gamma-ray emission from the galactic halo. I entertain the possibility that part of the EGRET signal is due to WIMP annihilations in the halo. I show that a viable candidate with…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Paolo Gondolo

The excess above 1 GeV in the energy spectrum of the diffuse Galactic gamma radiation, measured with the EGRET experiment, can be interpreted as the annihilation of Dark Matter (DM) particles. The DM is distributed in a halo around the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-10-29 Markus Weber

Recently it was shown that the excess of diffuse Galactic gamma rays above 1 GeV traces the Dark Matter halo, as proven by reconstructing the peculiar shape of the rotation curve of our Galaxy from the gamma ray excess. This can be…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 W. de Boer , C. Sander , V. Zhukov , A. V. Gladyshev , D. I. Kazakov

The extragalactic background (EGB) of diffuse gamma rays can be determined by subtracting the Galactic contribution from the data. This requires a Galactic model (GM) and we include for the first time the contribution of dark matter…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 W. de Boer , A. Nordt , C. Sander , V. Zhukov

The EGRET excess of diffuse Galactic gamma rays shows all the features expected from dark matter annihilation (DMA): a spectral shape given by the fragmentation of mono-energetic quarks, which is the same in all sky directions and an…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-01-09 Iris Gebauer

Simple models of weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs) predict dark matter annihilations into pairs of electroweak gauge bosons, Higgses or tops, which through their subsequent cascade decays produce a spectrum of gamma rays.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-05-20 Prateek Agrawal , Brian Batell , Patrick J. Fox , Roni Harnik

The WMAP experiment has revealed an excess of microwave emission from the region around the center of our Galaxy. It has been suggested that this signal, known as the ``WMAP Haze'', could be synchrotron emission from relativistic electrons…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Dan Hooper , Douglas P. Finkbeiner , Gregory Dobler

The diffuse Galactic $\gamma$-rays from EGRET observation shows excesses above 1 GeV in comparison with the expectations from conventional Galactic cosmic ray (CR) propagation model. In the work we try to solve the "GeV excess" problem by…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Xiao-Jun Bi , Juan Zhang , Qiang Yuan , Jian-Li Zhang , HongSheng Zhao

The ROSAT Galactic wind observations confirm that our Galaxy launches supernova driven Galactic winds with wind speeds of about 150 km/s in the Galactic plane. Galactic winds of this strength are incompatible with current isotropic models…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-02-17 Iris Gebauer

We propose a new signature for weakly interacting massive particle (WIMP) dark matter, a spectral feature in the diffuse extragalactic gamma-ray radiation. This feature, a sudden drop of the gamma-ray intensity at an energy corresponding to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-04-06 Lars Bergstrom , Joakim Edsjo , Piero Ullio
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