Speaker
Alex Geringer-Sameth
(Carnegie Mellon University)
Description
I will present results from a search for gamma-ray emission in nine Milky Way satellites recently discovered in the Dark Energy Survey. The nearest of these, Reticulum 2, shows evidence for a signal in public Fermi data. The detected emission is consistent with annihilating dark matter with a particle mass less than a few hundred GeV. Different ways of treating the background yield different significances -- ranging from 2.3 sigma to greater than 3.7 sigma (after trials) -- and I will discuss the caveats involved. I will discuss tests that any dark matter interpretation must pass.
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Author
Alex Geringer-Sameth
(Carnegie Mellon University)
