PoS - Proceedings of Science
Volume 417 - 7th Heidelberg International Symposium on High-Energy Gamma-Ray Astronomy (Gamma2022) - Contributed posters
Indirect Dark-Matter Searches in VHE Gamma Rays with Legacy VERITAS Dwarf Spheroidal Observations
D. Tak
Full text: pdf
Pre-published on: June 20, 2023
Published on:
Abstract
In the current cosmological theory, the existence and contribution of dark matter (DM) is inevitable. The weakly interacting massive particle (WIMP), expected mass in the range of tens of GeV to tens of TeV, is a DM candidate which can annihilate and/or decay into secondary particles, sequentially producing very-high-energy gamma rays (VHE; above 100 GeV). The Very Energetic Radiation Imaging Telescope Array System (VERITAS; sensitive to 100 GeV to 30 TeV gamma rays) is a ground-based VHE telescope array and can look for or detect gamma-ray signatures resulting from the annihilation of WIMPs. Since dwarf spheroidal galaxies (dSphs) are DM-rich regions, they are one of the best targets for studying indirect DM annihilation signatures. Compared to the previous DM search in dSphs, we significantly extend the observational dataset and improve our method of constraining the WIMP annihilation cross section by considering the dSph angular extension.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.22323/1.417.0197
How to cite

Metadata are provided both in "article" format (very similar to INSPIRE) as this helps creating very compact bibliographies which can be beneficial to authors and readers, and in "proceeding" format which is more detailed and complete.

Open Access
Creative Commons LicenseCopyright owned by the author(s) under the term of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.