Speaker
Simona Murgia
(University of California, Irvine)
Description
The center of the Milky Way is predicted to be the brightest region in the gamma-ray sky produced by dark matter annihilation or decay. In recent years, claims have been made of an excess consistent with a dark matter annihilation signal in the data collected by the Fermi Large Area Telescope towards the Galactic center. These results are intriguing, however the complexity involved in modeling the foreground and background emission from conventional astrophysical sources makes a conclusive interpretation of these results challenging. In this talk, I will summarize the current status of these searches, including the results from the Fermi LAT collaboration, and discuss prospects for improving these searches.
| Registration number following "ICRC2015-I/" | 964 |
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| Collaboration | FERMI |
Primary author
Simona Murgia
(University of California, Irvine)
