Searching for light from a dark matter clump

Abstract

The DAMPE experiment has recently reported an electron spectrum that can be explained by dark matter annihilation into charged lepton pairs in a nearby dark matter clump. The accompanying bremsstrahlung may yield a gamma-ray excess with a known spectral shape that extends over an angular scale of $O(10^{\circ })$. We show that such an excess is not present in Fermi-LAT data.

6 pages, 4 figures. Version to appear in JCAP

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• The DAMPE excess and gamma-ray constraints