Searching for Dark Matter annihilation in recently discovered Milky Way satellites with Fermi-LAT
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We search for excess γ-ray emission coincident with the positions of confirmed and candidate Milky Way satellite galaxies using six years of data from the Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT). Our sample of 45 stellar systems includes 28 kinematically confirmed dark-matter-dominated dwarf spheroidal galaxies (dSphs) and 17 recently discovered systems that have photometric characteristics consistent with the population of known dSphs. For each of these targets, the relative predicted γ-ray flux due to dark matter annihilation is taken from kinematic analysis if available, and estimated from a distance-based scaling relation otherwise, assuming that the The Astrophysical Journal, 834:110 (15pp), 2017 January 10 doi:10.3847/1538-4357/834/2/110 © 2017. The American Astronomical Society. All rights reserved.
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