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Nearby clusters and groups of galaxies are potentially bright sources of high-energy gamma-ray emission resulting from the pair-annihilation of dark matter particles. However, no significant gamma-ray emission has been detected so far from…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-05-25 LAT Collaboration

The first measurement on the antiproton to proton ratio made by the AMS-02 collaboration agrees with the expection from conventional cosmic-ray secondaries in the kinetic energy range $\sim 10-100$ GeV, which can be turned into stringent…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-09-30 Hong-Bo Jin , Yue-Liang Wu , Yu-Feng Zhou

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

Dark matter (DM) annihilations have been widely studied as a possible explanation of excess gamma rays from the galactic center seen by Fermi/LAT. However most such models are in conflict with constraints from dwarf spheroidals. Motivated…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-07-22 Jeremie Choquette , James M. Cline , Jonathan M. Cornell

If dark matter consists of weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs), dark matter subhalos in the Milky Way could be detectable as gamma-ray point sources due to WIMP annihilation. In this work, we perform an updated study of the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-05-25 Djoeke Schoonenberg , Jennifer Gaskins , Gianfranco Bertone , Jürg Diemand

We present observations of the dwarf galaxies Draco and Ursa Minor, the local group galaxies M32 and M33, and the globular cluster M15 conducted with the Whipple 10m gamma-ray telescope to search for the gamma-ray signature of…

The flux of high-energy astrophysical $\gamma$ rays is attenuated by the production of electron-positron pairs from scattering off of extragalactic background light (EBL). We use the most up-to-date information on galaxy populations to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-05-25 José Luis Bernal , Andrea Caputo , Gabriela Sato-Polito , Jordan Mirocha , Marc Kamionkowski

Using 43 months of public gamma-ray data from the Fermi Large Area Telescope, we find in regions close to the Galactic center at energies of 130 GeV a 4.6 sigma excess that is not inconsistent with a gamma-ray line from dark matter…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-11 Christoph Weniger

We reconsider the proposal of excited dark matter (DM) as an explanation for excess 511 keV gamma rays from positrons in the galactic center. We quantitatively compute the cross section for DM annihilation to nearby excited states, mediated…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-20 Fang Chen , James M. Cline , Anthony Fradette , Andrew R. Frey , Charles Rabideau

We trace the origin of the newly determined extragalactic gamma ray background from EGRET data to an unresolved population of blazars and neutralino annihilation in cold dark matter halos. Using results of high-resolution simulations of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Dominik Elsaesser , Karl Mannheim

The GLAST Large Area Telescope, scheduled for launch in 2006, is a next generation space based gamma ray telescope which will improve in point source sensitivity by a factor of 30 over that of EGRET below 10 GeV, and extend beyond EGRET up…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Lawrence Wai

We compare the full-sky morphology of the 511 keV gamma ray excess measured by the INTEGRAL/SPI experiment to predictions of models based on dark matter (DM) scatterings that produce low-energy positrons: either MeV-scale DM that…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-03 Aaron C. Vincent , Pierrick Martin , James M. Cline

The dwarf spheroidal galaxy Draco has long been considered likely to be one of the brightest point sources of gamma-rays generated through dark matter annihilations. Recent studies of this object have found that it remains largely intact…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 Lars Bergstrom , Dan Hooper

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

This article is an exploration of gamma ray signals of annihilating Higgs-portal singlet scalar and vector dark matter. Gamma ray signals are considered in the context of contributions from annihilations of singlets in the galactic halo to…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-06-07 Frederick S. Sage , Rainer Dick

Although most proposed dark matter candidates are stable, in order for dark matter to be present today, the only requirement is that its lifetime is longer than the age of the Universe, t_U ~ 4 10^17 s. Moreover, the dark matter particle…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-12-13 Sergio Palomares-Ruiz , Jennifer M. Siegal-Gaskins

A search for a dark matter (DM) annihilation signal into $\gamma$-rays toward the direction of the Canis Major (CMa) overdensity is presented. The nature of CMa is still controversial and one scenario represents it as a dwarf galaxy, making…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 HESS Collaboration , F. Aharonian

We refine the constraints on the lifetime of decaying super-heavy dark matter particles (SHDM), with masses ranging from $10^7$ to $10^{15}$ GeV, by analyzing ultra-high-energy (UHE) gamma-ray data. Our approach involves an accurate…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-01-21 Marco Chianese , Ninetta Saviano , Sara Cesare , Vincenzo M. Grieco , Valentina Nasti , Francesca Spinnato , Alessandro Tiano

We search for dark matter annihilation from galaxy clusters in the energy range from 1-300 GeV using nearly 16 years of Fermi-LAT data. For this purpose, we use 350 galaxy clusters selected from the 2500 $\rm{deg^2}$ SPT-SZ survey. We model…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-10-10 Siddhant Manna , Shantanu Desai

We study the imprint of dark matter (DM) annihilation on the global 21 cm signal from the Dark Ages to Cosmic Reionization. Motivated by recent observations, we focus on three DM candidates: (i) a 10 GeV Bino-like neutralino (ii) a 200 GeV…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-04-16 Marcos Valdés , Carmelo Evoli , Andrei Mesinger , Andrea Ferrara , Naoki Yoshida