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The Positron Puzzle is a half-century old conundrum about the origin of the Galactic $\gamma$-ray emission line at photon energies of 511 keV, and the shape of its morphology, showing a bulge-to-disk luminosity ratio of $\sim 1$ - unlike…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-04-19 Thomas Siegert

We use the GALPROP cosmic ray (CR) propagation framework to model the diffuse neutrino and gamma-ray emissions from the Galaxy. A collection of realistic bounding models are developed and predictions of the resulting neutrino and gamma-ray…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-11-14 P. D. Marinos , T. A. Porter , G. P. Rowell , I. V. Moskalenko , G. Jóhannesson

We enlarge the set of recipes and ingredients at disposal of any poor particle physicist eager to cook up signatures from weak-scale Dark Matter models by computing two secondary emissions due to DM particles annihilating or decaying in the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-12-02 Jatan Buch , Marco Cirelli , Gaëlle Giesen , Marco Taoso

A new study of the diffuse Galactic gamma-ray continuum radiation is presented, using a cosmic-ray propagation model which includes nucleons, antiprotons, electrons, positrons, and synchrotron radiation. Our treatment of the inverse Compton…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 A. W. Strong , I. V. Moskalenko , O. Reimer

Fluctuations in the Galactic synchrotron emission can be traced by the angular power spectrum of radio maps at low multipoles. At frequencies below few GHz, large-scale anisotropies are mainly induced by magnetic field turbulence. By…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-27 Marco Regis

The annihilation signal of particle dark matter can be strongly enhanced in over-dense regions such as close to the Galactic centre. We summarize some of our recent results on fluxes of gamma-rays, neutrinos and radio waves under different…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Guenter Sigl , Gianfranco Bertone

The evolution of the dark matter distribution at the Galactic center is analyzed, which is caused by the combination of gravitational scattering on Galactic bulge stars and absorption by a supermassive black hole at the center of the bulge.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 M. I. Zelnikov , E. A. Vasiliev

The recently observed data by AMS-02 clearly confirms that the positron flux rises with energy and shows a peak near a few hundred GeV. This rising positron flux cannot be explained by interactions of cosmic rays with interstellar hydrogen…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-12-23 Agnibha De Sarkar , Sayan Biswas , Nayantara Gupta

The evaporations of Primordial Black Holes (PBH) (via Hawking radiation) can produce electrons/positrons ($e^-/e^+$) in the Galactic Centre (GC) region which under the influence of the magnetic field of Centre region can emit synchrotron…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-04-08 Upala Mukhopadhyay , Debasish Majumdar , Avik Paul

Recent observations of a large excess of cosmic-ray positrons at high energies have raised a lot of interest in leptonic decay modes of dark matter particles. Nevertheless, dark matter particles in the Milky Way halo could also decay…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-19 Alejandro Ibarra , David Tran

Recent precision measurements of the flux of cosmic ray positrons by the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer show that the spectrum has a marked softening feature for energies close to one TeV. A possible interpretation of this result is that the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-02-19 Paolo Lipari

Excess microwave emission observed in the inner Galaxy (inner ~1 kpc) is consistent with synchrotron emission from highly relativistic electron-positron pairs produced by dark matter particle annihilation. More conventional sources for this…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-04-08 Douglas P. Finkbeiner

In this paper we consider dark matter particle annihilation in the gravitational field of black holes. We obtain exact distribution function of the infalling dark matter particles, and compute the resulting flux and spectra of gamma rays…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-08 A. N. Baushev

We study gamma ray and positron in high energy cosmic ray from the decay of the gravitino dark matter in the framework of supersymmetric model with R-parity violation. Even though R-parity is violated, the lifetime of the gravitino, which…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-02-20 Koji Ishiwata , Shigeki Matsumoto , Takeo Moroi

We present statistical analysis of diffuse Galactic synchrotron emission and polarized thermal emission from dust. Both Galactic synchrotron emission and polarized thermal emission from dust reflect statistics of magnetic field fluctuations…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-12-12 Jungyeon Cho , A. Lazarian

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

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 majority of gamma-ray emission from Galactic dark matter annihilation is likely to be detected as a contribution to the diffuse gamma-ray background. I show that dark matter substructure in the halo of the Galaxy induces characteristic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-07-13 Jennifer M. Siegal-Gaskins

The existence of antimatter domains in baryon asymmetrical Universe can appear as the cosmological consequence of particle theory in inflationary models with non-homogeneous baryosynthesis. Such a domain can survive in the early Universe…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Yu. A. Golubkov , M. Yu. Khlopov

We study the flux and the angular power spectrum of gamma-rays produced by Dark Matter (DM) annihilations in the Milky Way (MW) and in extra-galactic halos. The annihilation signal receives contributions from: a) the smooth MW halo, b)…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2009-08-11 Mattia Fornasa , Lidia Pieri , Gianfranco Bertone , Enzo Branchini