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. 2011 Dec 9;107(24):241302.
doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.107.241302. Epub 2011 Dec 8.

Constraining dark matter models from a combined analysis of Milky Way satellites with the Fermi Large Area Telescope

M Ackermann  1 , M Ajello, A Albert, W B Atwood, L Baldini, J Ballet, G Barbiellini, D Bastieri, K Bechtol, R Bellazzini, B Berenji, R D Blandford, E D Bloom, E Bonamente, A W Borgland, J Bregeon, M Brigida, P Bruel, R Buehler, T H Burnett, S Buson, G A Caliandro, R A Cameron, B Cañadas, P A Caraveo, J M Casandjian, C Cecchi, E Charles, A Chekhtman, J Chiang, S Ciprini, R Claus, J Cohen-Tanugi, J Conrad, S Cutini, A de Angelis, F de Palma, C D Dermer, S W Digel, E do Couto e Silva, P S Drell, A Drlica-Wagner, L Falletti, C Favuzzi, S J Fegan, E C Ferrara, Y Fukazawa, S Funk, P Fusco, F Gargano, D Gasparrini, N Gehrels, S Germani, N Giglietto, F Giordano, M Giroletti, T Glanzman, G Godfrey, I A Grenier, S Guiriec, M Gustafsson, D Hadasch, M Hayashida, E Hays, R E Hughes, T E Jeltema, G Jóhannesson, R P Johnson, A S Johnson, T Kamae, H Katagiri, J Kataoka, J Knödlseder, M Kuss, J Lande, L Latronico, A M Lionetto, M Llena Garde, F Longo, F Loparco, B Lott, M N Lovellette, P Lubrano, G M Madejski, M N Mazziotta, J E McEnery, J Mehault, P F Michelson, W Mitthumsiri, T Mizuno, C Monte, M E Monzani, A Morselli, I V Moskalenko, S Murgia, M Naumann-Godo, J P Norris, E Nuss, T Ohsugi, A Okumura, N Omodei, E Orlando, J F Ormes, M Ozaki, D Paneque, D Parent, M Pesce-Rollins, M Pierbattista, F Piron, G Pivato, T A Porter, S Profumo, S Rainò, M Razzano, A Reimer, O Reimer, S Ritz, M Roth, H F-W Sadrozinski, C Sbarra, J D Scargle, T L Schalk, C Sgrò, E J Siskind, G Spandre, P Spinelli, L Strigari, D J Suson, H Tajima, H Takahashi, T Tanaka, J G Thayer, J B Thayer, D J Thompson, L Tibaldo, M Tinivella, D F Torres, E Troja, Y Uchiyama, J Vandenbroucke, V Vasileiou, G Vianello, V Vitale, A P Waite, P Wang, B L Winer, K S Wood, M Wood, Z Yang, S Zimmer; Fermi-LAT Collaboration; M Kaplinghat, G D Martinez
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Constraining dark matter models from a combined analysis of Milky Way satellites with the Fermi Large Area Telescope

M Ackermann et al. Phys Rev Lett. .

Abstract

Satellite galaxies of the Milky Way are among the most promising targets for dark matter searches in gamma rays. We present a search for dark matter consisting of weakly interacting massive particles, applying a joint likelihood analysis to 10 satellite galaxies with 24 months of data of the Fermi Large Area Telescope. No dark matter signal is detected. Including the uncertainty in the dark matter distribution, robust upper limits are placed on dark matter annihilation cross sections. The 95% confidence level upper limits range from about 10(-26) cm3 s(-1) at 5 GeV to about 5×10(-23) cm3 s(-1) at 1 TeV, depending on the dark matter annihilation final state. For the first time, using gamma rays, we are able to rule out models with the most generic cross section (∼3×10(-26) cm3 s(-1) for a purely s-wave cross section), without assuming additional boost factors.

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