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EDP Sciences, EPJ Web of Conferences, (209), p. 01024, 2019

DOI: 10.1051/epjconf/201920901024

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The quest for dark matter in dwarf spheroidal galaxies with the Cherenkov Telescope Array

Journal article published in 2019 by Francesco G. Saturni ORCID, Gonzalo Rodríguez-Fernández, Aldo Morselli
This paper is made freely available by the publisher.
This paper is made freely available by the publisher.

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Abstract

Dwarf spheroidal galaxies are among the best environments that can be studied with Cherenkov telescopes for indirect searches of γ-ray signals coming from dark matter self-interaction (annihilation or decay), due to their proximity and negligible background emission. We present new determinations of the dark-matter amount – i.e. the astrophysical factors J and D – in dwarf-galaxy halos obtained through the MCMC Jeans analysis of their brightness and kinematic data. Such factors are of great importance to test the performances of the next-generation γ-ray instruments such as the Cherenkov Telescope Array in detecting dark-matter signals from astronomical environments, or constraining the limits to dark-matter physics parameters (particle mass and lifetime, annihilation cross section).

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