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astro-ph.HE2026

Refined anti-proton and anti-deuteron fluxes from weak-scale Dark Matter

Marco Cirelli, Mattia Di Mauro, Arpan Kar

We provide the cosmic-ray (CR) fluxes of antiprotons and antideuterons produced by the Galactic annihilation or decay of weak-scale dark matter (DM) particles of masses in the rang…

astro-ph.HE2026

Legacy analysis of Milky Way dwarf spheroidal satellite galaxies: an update

A. Circiello, M. Di Mauro, M. Ajello +3

Studies of Fermi-Large Area Telescope (LAT) data coincident with dwarf spheroidal satellite galaxies (dSphs) of the Milky Way (MW) have put the most stringent constraints on models…

astro-ph.HE2026

A Precise Measurement of the Fermi-LAT Galactic Center Excess Morphology and Spectrum

Mattia Di Mauro

We present a new Fermi-LAT analysis of the Galactic-center excess (GCE) designed to substantially reduce the dominant systematic uncertainties associated with interstellar-emission…

astro-ph.HE2026

Strong Constraints on Millisecond Pulsar Injection Spectra from Fermi-LAT Observations of the Galactic Center

Jordan Koechler, Pedro De la Torre Luque, Mattia Di Mauro

Millisecond pulsars (MSPs) are a leading explanation of the Galactic Center excess (GCE) observed in Fermi-LAT data. We constrain this scenario by jointly modeling prompt and inver…

astro-ph.HE2026

Addressing the Impact of Solar Modulation Systematic Uncertainties on Cosmic-Ray Propagation Models

Isabelle John, Alessandro Cuoco, Mattia Di Mauro

We perform a comprehensive analysis of cosmic-ray propagation using the time-dependent AMS-02 flux measurements covering a full solar cycle, with particular emphasis on the role of…

astro-ph.HE2025

The gamma-ray emission from Radio Galaxies and their contribution to the Isotropic Gamma-Ray Background

A. Circiello, A. McDaniel, M. Di Mauro +6

We evaluate the contribution to the Isotropic Gamma-Ray Background (IGRB) coming from Radio Galaxies (RGs), the subclass of radio-loud Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) with the highest…

astro-ph.HE2025

Search for cosmic-ray induced gamma-ray emission from local galaxy clusters using Fermi-LAT data

Judit Pérez-Romero, Mattia di Mauro, Rémi Adam +2

Galaxy clusters are the most massive gravitationally bound structures in the Universe. Even if clusters are nearly virialized structures, they undergo merging processes, creating m…

astro-ph.HE2024★ 7 cited

Disclosing the catalog pulsars dominating the Galactic positron flux

Luca Orusa, Silvia Manconi, Fiorenza Donato +1

The cosmic-ray flux of positrons is measured with high precision by the space-borne particle spectrometer AMS-02. The hypothesis that pulsars and their nebulae can significantly co…

astro-ph.HE2024★ 15 cited

Geminga's pulsar halo: an X-ray view

Silvia Manconi, Jooyun Woo, Ruo-Yu Shang +6

Geminga is the first pulsar around which a remarkable TeV gamma-ray halo extending over a few degrees was discovered by MILAGRO, HAWC and later by H.E.S.S., and by Fermi-LAT in the…

astro-ph.HE2024

Evaluating the Potential to Constrain Dark Matter Annihilation with Fermi-LAT Observations of Ultra-Faint Compact Stellar Systems

A. Circiello, A. McDaniel, A. Drlica-Wagner +4

Recent results from numerical simulations and models of galaxy formation suggest that recently discovered ultra-faint compact stellar systems (UFCSs) in the halo of the Milky Way (…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 4 cited

Legacy Analysis of Dark Matter Annihilation from the Milky Way Dwarf Spheroidal Galaxies with 14 Years of Fermi-LAT Data

Alex McDaniel, Marco Ajello, Christopher M. Karwin +3

The Milky Way (MW) dwarf spheroidal satellite galaxies (dSphs) are particularly intriguing targets to search for gamma rays from Weakly Interacting Massive Particle (WIMP) dark mat…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 1 cited

Data-Driven Constraints on Cosmic-Ray Diffusion: Probing Self-Generated Turbulence in the Milky Way

Mattia Di Mauro, Michael Korsmeier, Alessandro Cuoco

We employ a data-driven approach to investigate the rigidity and spatial dependence of the diffusion of cosmic rays in the turbulent magnetic field of the Milky Way. Our analysis c…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 18 cited

A novel prediction for secondary positrons and electrons in the Galaxy

Mattia Di Mauro, Fiorenza Donato, Michael Korsmeier +2

The Galactic flux of cosmic-ray (CR) positrons in the GeV to TeV energy range is very likely due to different Galactic components. One of these is the inelastic scattering of CR nu…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 27 cited

Constraining the dark matter contribution of rays in Cluster of galaxies using Fermi-LAT data

Mattia Di Mauro, Judit Pérez-Romero, Miguel A. Sánchez-Conde +1

Clusters of galaxies are the largest gravitationally-bound systems in the Universe. Their dynamics are dominated by dark matter (DM), which makes them among the best targets for in…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 12 cited

New determination of the production cross section for rays in the Galaxy

Luca Orusa, Mattia Di Mauro, Fiorenza Donato +1

The flux of rays is measured with unprecedented accuracy by the Large Area Telescope from 100 MeV to almost 1 TeV. In the future, the Cherenkov Telescope Array…

astro-ph.HE2022★ 24 cited

Investigating the effect of Milky Way dwarf spheroidal galaxies extension on dark matter searches with Fermi-LAT data

Mattia Di Mauro, Martin Stref, Francesca Calore

Satellite galaxies of the Milky Way with high mass-to-light ratios and little baryon content, i.e. dwarf spheroidal galaxies (dSphs), are among the most promising targets to detect…

astro-ph.HE2022★ 24 cited

New determination of the production cross section for secondary positrons and electrons in the Galaxy

Luca Orusa, Mattia Di Mauro, Fiorenza Donato +1

The cosmic-ray fluxes of electrons and positrons () are measured with high precision by the space-borne particle spectrometer AMS-02. To infer a precise interpretation of…

astro-ph.HE2021★ 34 cited

Constraining positron emission from pulsar populations with AMS-02 data

Luca Orusa, Silvia Manconi, Fiorenza Donato +1

The cosmic-ray flux of positrons is measured with high precision by the space-borne particle spectrometer AMS-02. The hypothesis that pulsar wind nebulae (PWNe) can significantly c…

astro-ph.HE2021★ 49 cited

Does the Geminga, Monogem and PSR J0622+3749 -ray halos imply slow diffusion around pulsars?

Sarah Recchia, Mattia Di Mauro, Felix A. Aharonian +4

The HAWC Collaboration has reported the detection of an extended -ray emission around the Geminga and Monogem pulsars of a few degree extension. Very recently, the LHAASO Collab…

astro-ph.HE2020★ 19 cited

Investigating -ray halos around three HAWC bright sources in Fermi-LAT data

Mattia Di Mauro, Silvia Manconi, Michela Negro +1

Numerous extended sources around Galactic pulsars have shown significant -ray emission from GeV to TeV energies, revealing hundreds of TeV energy electrons scattering off of the…

astro-ph.HE2020★ 19 cited

Novel interpretation of the latest AMS-02 cosmic-ray electron spectrum

Mattia Di Mauro, Fiorenza Donato, Silvia Manconi

The latest AMS-02 data on cosmic ray electrons show a break in the energy spectrum around 40 GeV, with a change in the slope of about 0.1. We perform a combined fit to the newest A…

astro-ph.HE2019★ 32 cited

Spectral and spatial analysis of the dark matter subhalo candidates among Fermi Large Area Telescope unidentified sources

Javier Coronado-Blázquez, Miguel A. Sánchez-Conde, Mattia Di Mauro +5

Fermi-LAT unidentified sources (unIDs) have proven to be compelling targets for performing indirect dark matter (DM) searches. In a previous work, we found that among the 1235 unID…

astro-ph.HE2019★ 64 cited

Evidences of low-diffusion bubbles around Galactic pulsars

Mattia Di Mauro, Silvia Manconi, Fiorenza Donato

Recently, a few-degrees extended -ray halo in the direction of Geminga pulsar has been detected by HAWC, Milagro and Fermi-LAT. These observations can be interpreted with positr…

astro-ph.HE2019★ 34 cited

Unidentified Gamma-ray Sources as Targets for Indirect Dark Matter Detection with the Fermi-Large Area Telescope

Javier Coronado-Blazquez, Miguel A. Sanchez-Conde, Alberto Dominguez +5

One of the predictions of the CDM cosmological framework is the hierarchical formation of structure, giving rise to dark matter (DM) halos and subhalos. When the latter are mass…