Characteristics of the Galactic Center excess measured with 11 years of -LAT data

M Di Mauro - Physical Review D, 2021 - APS
The excess of γ rays in the data measured by the Fermi Large Area Telescope from the
galactic center region is one of the most intriguing mysteries in astroparticle physics. This …

When models fail: An introduction to posterior predictive checks and model misspecification in gravitational-wave astronomy

IM Romero-Shaw, E Thrane, PD Lasky - Publications of the …, 2022 - cambridge.org
Bayesian inference is a powerful tool in gravitational-wave astronomy. It enables us to
deduce the properties of merging compact-object binaries and to determine how these …

Return of the templates: Revisiting the Galactic Center excess with multimessenger observations

I Cholis, YM Zhong, SD McDermott, JP Surdutovich - Physical Review D, 2022 - APS
The Galactic center excess (GCE) remains one of the most intriguing discoveries from the
Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) observations. We revisit the characteristics of the GCE by …

The Fermi–LAT Galactic Center Excess: Evidence of Annihilating Dark Matter?

S Murgia - Annual Review of Nuclear and Particle Science, 2020 - annualreviews.org
The center of the Galaxy is one of the prime targets in the search for a signal of annihilating
(or decaying) dark matter. If such a signal were to be detected, it would shed light on one of …

Explaining the GeV Antiproton Excess, GeV -Ray Excess, and -Boson Mass Anomaly in an Inert Two Higgs Doublet Model

CR Zhu, MY Cui, ZQ **a, ZH Yu, X Huang, Q Yuan… - Physical Review Letters, 2022 - APS
For the newly discovered W-boson mass anomaly, one of the simplest dark matter (DM)
models that can account for the anomaly without violating other astrophysical and …

Multimessenger constraints on the dark matter interpretation of the -LAT Galactic Center excess

M Di Mauro, MW Winkler - Physical Review D, 2021 - APS
An excess of γ rays in the data measured by the Fermi Large Area Telescope in the direction
of the Galactic Center has been reported in several publications. This excess, labeled as the …

Galactic bulge preferred over dark matter for the Galactic centre gamma-ray excess

O Macias, C Gordon, RM Crocker, B Coleman… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
An anomalous gamma-ray excess emission has been found in the Fermi Large Area
Telescope data covering the centre of the Galaxy,. Several theories have been proposed for …

Strong constraints on thermal relic dark matter from Fermi-LAT observations of the Galactic Center

KN Abazajian, S Horiuchi, M Kaplinghat, RE Keeley… - Physical Review D, 2020 - APS
The extended excess toward the Galactic Center (GC) in gamma rays inferred from Fermi-
LAT observations has been interpreted as being due to dark matter (DM) annihilation. Here …

Foreground mismodeling and the point source explanation of the Fermi Galactic Center excess

M Buschmann, NL Rodd, BR Safdi, LJ Chang… - Physical Review D, 2020 - APS
The Fermi Large Area Telescope has observed an excess of∼ GeV energy gamma rays
from the center of the Milky Way, which may arise from near-thermal dark matter annihilation …

Strong evidence that the galactic bulge is shining in gamma rays

O Macias, S Horiuchi, M Kaplinghat… - … of Cosmology and …, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
There is growing evidence that the Galactic Center Excess identified in the Fermi-LAT
gamma-ray data arises from a population of faint astrophysical sources. We provide …