PIRSA:19060042

Dark Matter Strikes Back at the Galactic Center

Leane, R. (2019). Dark Matter Strikes Back at the Galactic Center. Perimeter Institute. https://pirsa.org/19060042

Leane, Rebecca. Dark Matter Strikes Back at the Galactic Center. Perimeter Institute, Jun. 25, 2019, https://pirsa.org/19060042 

          @misc{ pirsa_PIRSA:19060042,
            doi = {10.48660/19060042},
            url = {https://pirsa.org/19060042},
            author = {Leane, Rebecca},
            keywords = {Particle Physics},
            language = {en},
            title = {Dark Matter Strikes Back at the Galactic Center},
            publisher = {Perimeter Institute},
            year = {2019},
            month = {jun},
            note = {PIRSA:19060042 see, \url{https://pirsa.org}}
          }

Rebecca Leane

Stanford University

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Abstract

Statistical evidence has previously suggested that the Galactic Center GeV Excess (GCE) originates largely from point sources, and not from annihilating dark matter. In this talk, I will discuss the impact of unmodeled source populations on identifying the true origin of the GCE. In a proof-of-principle example with simulated data, I will demonstrate that unmodeled sources in the Fermi Bubbles can lead to a dark matter signal being misattributed to point sources. Furthermore, I will show there is striking behavior consistent with a mismodeling effect in the real Fermi data, finding that large artificial injected dark matter signals are completely misattributed to point sources. Consequently, I will conclude that dark matter may provide a dominant contribution to the GCE after all, and discuss future directions.