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Exoplanets as Sub-GeV Dark Matter Detectors
Rebecca K. Leane, Juri Smirnov
We present exoplanets as new targets to discover Dark Matter (DM). Throughout the Milky Way, DM can scatter, become captured, deposit annihilation energy, and increase the heat flo…
Supernova Muons: New Constraints on Z' Bosons, Axions, and ALPs
Djuna Croon, Gilly Elor, Rebecca K. Leane +1
New light particles produced in supernovae can lead to additional energy loss and a consequent deficit in neutrino production in conflict with the neutrinos observed from Supernova…
Indirect Detection of Dark Matter in the Galaxy
Rebecca K. Leane
I present a short overview of the latest developments in indirect searches for dark matter using gamma rays, X-rays, charged cosmic rays, micro waves, radio waves, and neutrinos. I…
The Enigmatic Galactic Center Excess: Spurious Point Sources and Signal Mismodeling
Rebecca K. Leane, Tracy R. Slatyer
The Galactic Center GeV excess (GCE) has garnered great interest as a possible signal of either dark matter annihilation or some novel astrophysical phenomenon, such as a new popul…
Spurious Point Source Signals in the Galactic Center Excess
Rebecca K. Leane, Tracy R. Slatyer
We re-examine evidence that the Galactic Center Excess (GCE) originates primarily from point sources (PSs). We show that in our region of interest, non-Poissonian template fitting…