Search for Gamma-Ray Emission from DES Dwarf Spheroidal Galaxy Candidates with Fermi-LAT Data
Creators: name: LAT Collaboration
name: The DES Collaboration
name: Drlica-Wagner, A.
name: Albert, A.
name: Bechtol, K.
name: Wood, M.
name: Strigari, L.
name: Sanchez-Conde, M.
name: Baldini, L.
name: Essig, R.
name: Cohen-Tanugi, J.
name: Anderson, B.
name: Bellazzini, R.
name: Bloom, E. D.
name: Caputo, R.
name: Cecchi, C.
name: Charles, E.
name: Chiang, J.
name: de Angelis, A.
name: Funk, S.
name: Fusco, P.
name: Gargano, F.
name: Giglietto, N.
name: Giordano, F.
name: Guiriec, S.
name: Gustafsson, M.
name: Kuss, M.
name: Loparco, F.
name: Lubrano, P.
name: Mirabal, N.
name: Mizuno, T.
name: Morselli, A.
name: Ohsugi, T.
name: Orlando, E.
name: Persic, M.
name: Raino, S.
name: Sehgal, N.
name: Spada, F.
name: Suson, D. J.
name: Zaharijas, G.
name: Zimmer, S.
name: Abbott, T.
name: Allam, S.
name: Balbinot, E.
name: Bauer, A. H.
name: Benoit-Levy, A.
name: Bernstein, R. A.
name: Bernstein, G. M.
name: Bertin, E.
name: Brooks, D.
name: Buckley-Geer, E.
name: Burke, D. L.
name: Rosell, A. Carnero
name: Castander, F. J.
name: Covarrubias, R.
name: D'Andrea, C. B.
name: da Costa, L. N.
name: DePoy, D. L.
name: Desai, S.
name: Diehl, H. T.
name: Cunha, C. E
name: Eifler, T. F.
name: Estrada, J.
name: Evrard, A. E.
name: Neto, A. Fausti
name: Fernandez, E.
name: Finley, D. A.
name: Flaugher, B.
name: Frieman, J.
name: Gaztanaga, E.
name: Gerdes, D.
name: Gruen, D.
name: Gruendl, R. A.
name: Gutierrez, G.
name: Honscheid, K.
name: Jain, B.
name: James, D.
name: Jeltema, T.
name: Kent, S.
name: Kron, R.
name: Kuehn, K.
name: Kuropatkin, N.
name: Lahav, O.
name: Li, T. S.
name: Luque, E.
name: Maia, M. A. G.
name: Makler, M.
name: March, M.
name: Marshall, J.
name: Martini, P.
name: Merritt, K. W.
name: Miller, C.
name: Miquel, R.
name: Mohr, J.
name: Neilsen, E.
name: Nord, B.
name: Ogando, R.
name: Peoples, J.
name: Petravick, D.
name: Pieres, A.
name: Plazas, A. A.
name: Queiroz, A.
name: Romer, A. K.
name: Roodman, A.
name: Rykoff, E. S.
name: Sako, M.
name: Sanchez, E.
name: Santiago, B.
name: Scarpine, V.
name: Schubnell, M.
name: Sevilla, I.
name: Smith, R. C.
name: Soares-Santos, M.
name: Sobreira, F.
name: Suchyta, E.
name: Swanson, M. E. C.
name: Tarle, G.
name: Thaler, J.
name: Thomas, D.
name: Tucker, D.
name: Walker, A.
name: Wechsler, R. H.
name: Wester, W.
name: Williams, P.
name: Yanny, B.
name: Zuntz, J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Due to their proximity, high dark-matter content, and apparent absence of non-thermal processes, Milky Way dwarf spheroidal satellite galaxies (dSphs) are excellent targets for the indirect detection of dark matter. Recently, eight new dSph candidates were discovered using the first year of data from the Dark Energy Survey (DES). We searched for gamma-ray emission coincident with the positions of these new objects in six years of Fermi Large Area Telescope data. We found no significant excesses of gamma-ray emission. Under the assumption that the DES candidates are dSphs with dark matter halo properties similar to the known dSphs, we computed individual and combined limits on the velocity-averaged dark matter annihilation cross section for these new targets. If the estimated dark-matter content of these dSph candidates is confirmed, they will constrain the annihilation cross section to lie below the thermal relic cross section for dark matter particles with masses &lt; 20 GeV annihilating via the b-bbar or tau+tau- channels.
description: 9 pages, 4 figures, 1 table. Updated to published version. Readers may be interested in the related work by Ackermann et al. arXiv:1503.02641 (The Fermi-LAT Collaboration), Bechtol, Drlica-Wagner, et al. arXiv:1503.02584 (The DES Collaboration), and Koposov, Belokurov, Torrealba, &amp; Evans arXiv:1503.02079