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astro-ph.HE2025★ 6 cited

Charge-dependent spectral softenings of primary cosmic-rays below the knee

DAMPE Collaboration, Francesca Alemanno, Qi An +146

In most particle acceleration or propagation theories, the characteristic features of the cosmic ray spectra due to acceleration limits or propagation phase changes are charge depe…

astro-ph.HE2021★ 12 cited

Search for gamma-ray emission from the 12 nearby dwarf spheroidal galaxies with 12 years of Fermi-LAT data

Shang Li, Yun-Feng Liang, Yi-Zhong Fan

Previously, we have shown in Li et al. (2018) that very weak -ray excesses () appear in some Milky Way dwarf spheroidal galaxies (dSphs, including candidates) and the c…

astro-ph.HE2021★ 6 cited

Explanation of nearby SNRs for primary electron excess and proton spectral bump

Tian-Peng Tang, Zi-Qing Xia, Zhao-Qiang Shen +5

Several groups have reported a possible excess of primary electrons at high energies with the joint fit of the positron fraction and total electron/positron spectra. With the lates…

astro-ph.HE2021★ 2 cited

Investigating the dark matter minispikes with the gamma-ray signal from the halo of M31

Zi-Qing Xia, Zhao-Qiang Shen, Xu Pan +2

Recently, the evidence for gamma-ray emission has been found in the -LAT observation for the outer halo of Andromeda galaxy (M31). The dark matter (DM) annihilation offers a…

astro-ph.HE2020★ 12 cited

Stringent constraints on the light boson model with supermassive black hole spin measurements

Lei Zu, Lei Feng, Qiang Yuan +1

Massive bosons, such as light scalars and vector bosons, can lead to instabilities of rotating black holes by the superradiance effect, which extracts energy and angular momentum f…

astro-ph.HE2019★ 26 cited

Searching for the possible signal of the photon-axionlike particle oscillation in the combined GeV and TeV spectra of supernova remnants

Zi-Qing Xia, Yun-Feng Liang, Lei Feng +3

The conversion between photons and axionlike particles (ALPs) in the Milky Way magnetic field could result in the detectable oscillation phenomena in -ray spectra of Galactic so…

astro-ph.HE2019★ 4 cited

Anomalous bremsstrahlung and the structure of cosmic ray electron-positron fluxes at the GeV-TeV energy range

Wei Zhu, Pen Liu, Jianhong Ruan +2

We reveal that the energy spectra of electrons-positrons in primary cosmic rays measured at atmosphere top have double structures: an excess component a…

astro-ph.HE2018★ 2 cited

A speculation about a puzzled result in energy spectrum of cosmic-ray electrons around TeV energies

Wei Zhu, Jianhong Ruan, Peng Liu +2

Nuclear Coulomb potential at completely ionized and extremely thin atmosphere can leaks to a macroscopic spatial scale. This effect is used to explain the difference between the en…

astro-ph.HE2018★ 38 cited

Dark Matter Particle Explorer observations of high-energy cosmic ray electrons plus positrons and their physical implications

Qiang Yuan, Lei Feng

The DArk Matter Particle Explorer (DAMPE) is a satellite-borne, high-energy particle and -ray detector, which is dedicated to indirectly detecting particle dark matter and study…

astro-ph.HE2018★ 8 cited

Search for line signal candidates in the Fermi-LAT data

Shang Li, Zi-Qing Xia, Yun-Feng Liang +7

In order to search for the line-like signals in the Fermi-LAT data, we have analyzed totally 49152 regions of interest (ROIs) that cover the whole sky. No ROI displays a line signa…

astro-ph.HE2018★ 11 cited

Search for gamma-ray emission from the nearby dwarf spheroidal galaxies with 9 years of Fermi-LAT data

Shang Li, Kai-Kai Duan, Yun-Feng Liang +8

In this work, we search for -ray emission from the directions of some nearby Milky Way dwarf spheroidal galaxies (dSphs) and candidates with the publicly-available Pass 8 data o…

astro-ph.HE2018★ 36 cited

Searching for spectral oscillations due to photon-axionlike particle conversion using the Fermi-LAT observations of bright supernova remnants

Zi-Qing Xia, Cun Zhang, Yun-Feng Liang +4

Axionlike-particles (ALPs) are one promising type of dark matter candidate particle that may generate detectable effects on -ray spectra other than the canonical weakly interact…

astro-ph.HE2017★ 44 cited

Interpretations of the DAMPE electron data

Qiang Yuan, Lei Feng, Peng-Fei Yin +26

The DArk Matter Particle Explorer (DAMPE), a high energy cosmic ray and -ray detector in space, has recently reported the new measurement of the total electron plus positron flu…

astro-ph.HE2016★ 14 cited

Search for gamma-ray line features from Milky Way satellites with Fermi-LAT Pass 8 data

Yun-Feng Liang, Zi-Qing Xia, Zhao-Qiang Shen +7

With 91 months of the publicly available Fermi-LAT Pass 8 data, we analyze the gamma-ray emission from the Milky Way satellites to search for potential line signals due to the anni…

astro-ph.HE2016★ 52 cited

Search for a gamma-ray line feature from a group of nearby Galaxy clusters with Fermi LAT Pass 8 data

Yun-Feng Liang, Zhao-Qiang Shen, Xiang Li +6

Galaxy clusters are the largest gravitationally bound objects in the universe and may be suitable targets for indirect dark matter searches. With 85 months of Fermi-LAT Pass 8 publ…

astro-ph.HE2015★ 62 cited

Search for gamma-ray emission from eight dwarf spheroidal galaxy candidates discovered in Year Two of Dark Energy Survey with Fermi-LAT data

Shang Li, Yun-Feng Liang, Kai-Kai Duan +7

Very recently the Dark Energy Survey (DES) Collaboration has released their second group of Dwarf spheroidal (dSph) galaxy candidates. With the publicly-available Pass 8 data of Fe…

astro-ph.HE2014★ 27 cited

The `excess' of primary cosmic ray electrons

Xiang Li, Zhao-Qiang Shen, Bo-Qiang Lu +5

With the accurate cosmic ray (CR) electron and positron spectra (denoted as and , respectively) measured by AMS-02 collaboration, the difference betw…

astro-ph.HE2014★ 169 cited

GeV excess in the Milky Way: The Role of Diffuse Galactic gamma ray Emission template

Bei Zhou, Yun-Feng Liang, Xiaoyuan Huang +4

Several groups have analyzed the publicly-available Fermi-LAT data and reported a spatially extended ray excess of around GeV from the region surrounding the Galactic Cen…

astro-ph.HE2011★ 19 cited

Search for dark matter signals with Fermi-LAT observation of globular clusters NGC 6388 and M 15

Lei Feng, Qiang Yuan, Peng-Fei Yin +2

The globular clusters are probably good targets for dark matter (DM) searches in -rays due to the possible adiabatic contraction of DM by baryons. In this work we analyse the th…