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Closing in on the ultimate Dark Matter limits forecast by the Fermi Gamma-Ray Space Telescope

Research Project

Project/Area Number 20K14463
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for Early-Career Scientists

Allocation TypeMulti-year Fund
Review Section Basic Section 15010:Theoretical studies related to particle-, nuclear-, cosmic ray and astro-physics
Research InstitutionThe University of Tokyo

Principal Investigator

MACIAS.RAMIREZ OSCAR.ARMANDO  東京大学, カブリ数物連携宇宙研究機構, 特任研究員 (20869185)

Project Period (FY) 2020-04-01 – 2022-03-31
Project Status Completed (Fiscal Year 2021)
Budget Amount *help
¥2,860,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,200,000、Indirect Cost: ¥660,000)
Fiscal Year 2021: ¥1,430,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,100,000、Indirect Cost: ¥330,000)
Fiscal Year 2020: ¥1,430,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,100,000、Indirect Cost: ¥330,000)
Keywordsdark matter / pulsars / Dark matter / Gamma rays / Galactic center / CTA / Fermi GeV excess / Pulsars / Galactic Center / gamma rays / cosmic rays / Dark Matter Limits
Outline of Research at the Start

An intriguing signal of excess gamma ray emission has been reported from the Galactic center in Fermi data. We will unravel that Fermi data from the Galactic center region has significant sensitivity to uncharted parameter space for dark matter particles in the GeV mass scale. A discovery of dark matter emission would be a major breakthrough, but even null results will provide the strongest limits on the dark matter annihilation cross section and will significantly deepen our understanding of dark matter in the Universe.

Outline of Final Research Achievements

(a) I used multi-messenger cosmic ray data to impose strong conservative constraints on super-heavy dark matter particles [JCAP 01 (2020) 003].(b) I used radio observations to impose the current most stringent constraints on microelectronvolt-scale axion dark matter particles [Phys.Rev.Lett. 125 (2020) 17, 171301].(c) I used the revolutionary astrophysical background model created in Macias+(2018) to obtain the strongest constraints in the literature on gigaelectronvolt-scale dark matter particles in the literature [Phys.Rev.D 102 (2020) 4, 043012].(d) I demonstrated that the upcoming Cherenkov Telescope Array will be the world’s most sensitive instrument to search Wino dark matter particles [Phys.Rev.D 103 (2021) 2, 023011](e) In [ MNRAS. 509 (2021) 1, L11-L16], I used INTEGRAL satellite data to show that the so-called positron excess was in fact not due to dark matter emission. Instead, it was related to the physics of the stars in the Galactic bulge.

Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements

予想される背景を超えた興味深い天体物理学的信号がさまざまな望遠鏡で観測されており、暗黒物質の起源を持っている可能性があります。 天体物理学的過剰には、フェルミガンマ線宇宙望遠鏡によって検出された銀河中心GeVガンマ線過剰、AMS反陽子および陽電子過剰、および511X線ラインが含まれます。 このプロジェクトは、これらの過剰を解決するための手段を調査し、最終的な解決策への明確な道を提供しました。

Report

(3 results)
  • 2021 Annual Research Report   Final Research Report ( PDF )
  • 2020 Research-status Report
  • Research Products

    (21 results)

All 2022 2021 2020 Other

All Int'l Joint Research (3 results) Journal Article (9 results) (of which Int'l Joint Research: 9 results,  Peer Reviewed: 9 results,  Open Access: 1 results) Presentation (8 results) (of which Int'l Joint Research: 5 results,  Invited: 8 results) Remarks (1 results)

  • [Int'l Joint Research] University of Amsterdam(オランダ)

    • Related Report
      2021 Annual Research Report
  • [Int'l Joint Research] National University of Australia(オーストラリア)

    • Related Report
      2021 Annual Research Report
  • [Int'l Joint Research] University of California IRVINE(米国)

    • Related Report
      2021 Annual Research Report
  • [Journal Article] Assessing the Impact of Hydrogen Absorption on the Characteristics of the Galactic Center Excess2022

    • Author(s)
      Pohl, Martin and Macias, Oscar and Coleman, Phaedra and Gordon, Chris
    • Journal Title

      The Astrophysical Journal

      Volume: 929 Issue: 2 Pages: 136-136

    • DOI

      10.3847/1538-4357/ac6032

    • Related Report
      2021 Annual Research Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Open Access / Int'l Joint Research
  • [Journal Article] Millisecond Pulsars from Accretion Induced Collapse as the Origin of the Galactic Centre Gamma-ray Excess Signal2022

    • Author(s)
      Gautam, Anuj and Crocker, Roland M. and Ferrario, Lilia and Ruiter, Ashley J. and Ploeg, Harrison and Gordon, Chris and Macias, Oscar
    • Journal Title

      Nature Astronomy

      Volume: - Issue: 6 Pages: 4-4

    • DOI

      10.1038/s41550-022-01658-3

    • Related Report
      2021 Annual Research Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Int'l Joint Research
  • [Journal Article] Prospects for detecting heavy WIMP dark matter with the Cherenkov Telescope Array: The Wino and Higgsino2021

    • Author(s)
      Rinchiuso, Lucia and Macias, Oscar and Moulin, Emmanuel and Rodd, Nicholas L. and Slatyer, Tracy R.
    • Journal Title

      Physical Review D

      Volume: 103 Issue: 2 Pages: 023011-023011

    • DOI

      10.1103/physrevd.103.023011

    • Related Report
      2021 Annual Research Report 2020 Research-status Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Int'l Joint Research
  • [Journal Article] Evidence for a high-energy tail in the gamma-ray spectra of globular clusters2021

    • Author(s)
      Song, Deheng and Macias, Oscar and Horiuchi, Shunsaku and Crocker, Roland M. and Nataf, David M.
    • Journal Title

      Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

      Volume: 507 Issue: 4 Pages: 5161-5176

    • DOI

      10.1093/mnras/stab2406

    • Related Report
      2021 Annual Research Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Int'l Joint Research
  • [Journal Article] Cherenkov Telescope Array sensitivity to the putative millisecond pulsar population responsible for the Galactic Centre excess2021

    • Author(s)
      Macias, Oscar and van Leijen, Harm and Song, Deheng and Ando, Shin'ichiro and Horiuchi, Shunsaku and Crocker, Roland M.
    • Journal Title

      Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

      Volume: 506 Issue: 2 Pages: 1741-1760

    • DOI

      10.1093/mnras/stab1450

    • Related Report
      2021 Annual Research Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Int'l Joint Research
  • [Journal Article] Measuring the smearing of the Galactic 511-keV signal: positron propagation or supernova kicks?2021

    • Author(s)
      Siegert, Thomas and Crocker, Roland M. and Macias, Oscar and Panther, Fiona H. and Calore, Francesca and Song, Deheng and Horiuchi, Shunsaku
    • Journal Title

      Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

      Volume: 509 Issue: 1 Pages: 11-16

    • DOI

      10.1093/mnrasl/slab113

    • Related Report
      2021 Annual Research Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Int'l Joint Research
  • [Journal Article] Strong constraints on thermal relic dark matter from Fermi-LAT observations of the Galactic Center2020

    • Author(s)
      Kevork N. Abazajian, Shunsaku Horiuchi, Manoj Kaplinghat, Ryan E. Keeley, Oscar Macias
    • Journal Title

      Physical Review D

      Volume: 102 Issue: 4 Pages: 1-24

    • DOI

      10.1103/physrevd.102.043012

    • Related Report
      2020 Research-status Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Int'l Joint Research
  • [Journal Article] Comparing the Galactic Bulge and Galactic Disk Millisecond Pulsars2020

    • Author(s)
      Harrison Ploeg, Chris Gordon, Roland Crocker, Oscar Macias
    • Journal Title

      Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics

      Volume: 12 Issue: 12 Pages: 035-035

    • DOI

      10.1088/1475-7516/2020/12/035

    • Related Report
      2020 Research-status Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Int'l Joint Research
  • [Journal Article] Joshua W. Foster, Yonatan Kahn, Oscar Macias, Zhiquan Sun, Ralph P. Eatough, Christoph Weniger, Ben Safdi2020

    • Author(s)
      Green Bank and Effelsberg Radio Telescope Searches for Axion Dark Matter Conversion in Neutron Star Magnetospheres
    • Journal Title

      Physical Review Letters

      Volume: 125 Issue: 17 Pages: 1-17

    • DOI

      10.1103/physrevlett.125.171301

    • Related Report
      2020 Research-status Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] Distinguising dark matter from millisecond pulsars with the Cherenkov Telescope Array2021

    • Author(s)
      Oscar Macias
    • Organizer
      MOCa 2021 - Materia Oscura en Colombia
    • Related Report
      2021 Annual Research Report
    • Int'l Joint Research / Invited
  • [Presentation] Searches for Millisecond Pulsars with Gamma Ray Telescopes2021

    • Author(s)
      Oscar Macias
    • Organizer
      Instituto de Fisica Teorica (IFT) - Research Seminar
    • Related Report
      2021 Annual Research Report
    • Int'l Joint Research / Invited
  • [Presentation] CTA sensitivity to the high-energy tail of the Fermi GeV excess2021

    • Author(s)
      Oscar Macias
    • Organizer
      ICRC 2021 - The Astroparticle Physics Conference (DESY)
    • Related Report
      2021 Annual Research Report
    • Int'l Joint Research / Invited
  • [Presentation] Distinguishing Dark Matter from Millisecond Pulsars in the Center of the Galaxy2021

    • Author(s)
      Oscar Macias
    • Organizer
      TeV Particle Astrophysics 2021(TeVPA 2021)
    • Related Report
      2021 Annual Research Report
    • Int'l Joint Research / Invited
  • [Presentation] CTA prospects for new physics at the galactic center.2021

    • Author(s)
      Oscar Macias
    • Organizer
      IRN Terascale - Dark Universe Workshop (LPC-Clermont)
    • Related Report
      2021 Annual Research Report
    • Int'l Joint Research / Invited
  • [Presentation] Assessing the Impact of Hydrogen Absorption on the Characteristics of the Galactic Center Excess2021

    • Author(s)
      Oscar Macias
    • Organizer
      Kashiwa Dark Matter 2021, Dark Matter Symposium
    • Related Report
      2021 Annual Research Report
    • Invited
  • [Presentation] Cherenkov Telescope Array sensitivity to the putative millisecond pulsar population responsible for the Galactic center excess2021

    • Author(s)
      Oscar Macias
    • Organizer
      25th Symposium on Astroparticle Physics in the Netherlands
    • Related Report
      2020 Research-status Report
    • Invited
  • [Presentation] Astrophysical Constraints on Dark Matter2020

    • Author(s)
      Oscar Macias
    • Organizer
      COMHEP 2020
    • Related Report
      2020 Research-status Report
    • Invited
  • [Remarks] Oscar Macias Google site

    • URL

      https://sites.google.com/view/oscar-macias/home

    • Related Report
      2021 Annual Research Report

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Published: 2020-04-28   Modified: 2023-01-30  

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