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2013ApJ...762L..22H - Astrophys. J., 762, L22 (2013/January-2)

Evidence for indirect detection of dark matter from galaxy clusters in Fermi γ-ray data.

HEKTOR A., RAIDAL M. and TEMPEL E.

Abstract (from CDS):

Using the Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) we search for spectral features in γ-rays coming from regions corresponding to the 18 brightest nearby galaxy clusters determined by the magnitude of their signal line-of-sight integrals. We observe a double-peak-like excess over the diffuse power-law background at photon energies of 110 GeV and 130 GeV with a global statistical significance of up to 3.6σ, independently confirming earlier claims of the same excess from the Galactic center. Interpreting this result as a signal of dark matter annihilations to two monochromatic photon channels in galaxy cluster halos, and fixing the annihilation cross-section from the Galactic center data, we determine the annihilation boost factor due to dark matter subhalos from the data. Our results contribute to a discrimination of the dark matter annihilations from astrophysical processes and from systematic detector effects, offering them as possible explanations for the Fermi-LAT excess.

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Journal keyword(s): astroparticle physics - dark matter - galaxies: clusters: general - gamma rays: galaxies: clusters - methods: data analysis

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