Search for dark matter annihilation in the Wolf-Lundmark-Melotte dwarf irregular galaxy with H.E.S.S.

H. Abdallah; R. Adam; F. Aharonian; F. Ait Benkhali; E.O. Angüner; C. Arcaro; C. Armand; T. Armstrong; H. Ashkar; M. Backes; V. Baghmanyan; V. Barbosa Martins; A. Barnacka; M. Barnard; Y. Becherini; D. Berge; K. Bernlöhr; B. Bi; M. Böttcher; C. Boisson; J. Bolmont; M. de Bony de Lavergne; M. Breuhaus; F. Brun; P. Brun; M. Bryan; M. Büchele; T. Bulik; T. Bylund; S. Caroff; A. Carosi; S. Casanova; T. Chand; S. Chandra; A. Chen; G. Cotter; M. Curyło; J. Damascene Mbarubucyeye; I.D. Davids; J. Davies; C. Deil; J. Devin; P. Dewilt; L. Dirson; A. Djannati-Ataï; A. Dmytriiev; A. Donath; V. Doroshenko; C. Duffy; J. Dyks; K. Egberts; F. Eichhorn; S. Einecke; G. Emery; J.-P. Ernenwein; K. Feijen; S. Fegan; A. Fiasson; G. Fichet de Clairfontaine; G. Fontaine; S. Funk; M. Füssling; S. Gabici; Y.A. Gallant; G. Giavitto; L. Giunti; D. Glawion; J.F. Glicenstein; D. Gottschall; M.-H. Grondin; J. Hahn; M. Haupt; G. Hermann; J.A. Hinton; W. Hofmann; C. Hoischen; T.L. Holch; M. Holler; M. Hörbe; D. Horns; D. Huber; M. Jamrozy; D. Jankowsky; F. Jankowsky; A. Jardin-Blicq; V. Joshi; I. Jung-Richardt; E. Kasai; M.A. Kastendieck; K. Katarzyński; U. Katz; D. Khangulyan; B. Khélifi; S. Klepser; W. Kluźniak; Nu. Komin; R. Konno; K. Kosack; D. Kostunin; M. Kreter; G. Lamanna; A. Lemière; M. Lemoine-Goumard; J.-P. Lenain; C. Levy; T. Lohse; I. Lypova; J. Mackey; J. Majumdar; D. Malyshev; V. Marandon; P. Marchegiani; Alexandre Marcowith; A. Mares; G. Martì-Devesa; R. Marx; G. Maurin; P.J. Meintjes; M. Meyer; R. Moderski; M. Mohamed; L. Mohrmann; A. Montanari; C. Moore; P. Morris; E. Moulin; J. Muller; T. Murach; K. Nakashima; A. Nayerhoda; M. de Naurois; H. Ndiyavala; F. Niederwanger; J. Niemiec; L. Oakes; P. O'Brien; H. Odaka; S. Ohm; L. Olivera-Nieto; E. de Ona Wilhelmi; M. Ostrowski; M. Panter; S. Panny; R.D. Parsons; G. Peron; B. Peyaud; Q. Piel; S. Pita; V. Poireau; A. Priyana Noel; D.A. Prokhorov; H. Prokoph; G. Pühlhofer; M. Punch; A. Quirrenbach; S. Raab; R. Rauth; P. Reichherzer; A. Reimer; O. Reimer; Q. Remy; Matthieu Renaud; F. Rieger; L. Rinchiuso; C. Romoli; G. Rowell; B. Rudak; E. Ruiz-Velasco; V. Sahakian; S. Sailer; D.A. Sanchez; A. Santangelo; M. Sasaki; M. Scalici; F. Schüssler; H.M. Schutte; U. Schwanke; S. Schwemmer; M. Seglar-Arroyo; M. Senniappan; A.S. Seyffert; N. Shafi; K. Shiningayamwe; R. Simoni; A. Sinha; H. Sol; A. Specovius; S. Spencer; M. Spir-Jacob; Ł. Stawarz; L. Sun; R. Steenkamp; C. Stegmann; S. Steinmassl; C. Steppa; T. Takahashi; T. Tavernier; A.M. Taylor; R. Terrier; D. Tiziani; M. Tluczykont; L. Tomankova; C. Trichard; M. Tsirou; R. Tuffs; Y. Uchiyama; D.J. van Der Walt; C. van Eldik; C. van Rensburg; B. van Soelen; George Vasileiadis; J. Veh; C. Venter; P. Vincent; J. Vink; H.J. Völk; T. Vuillaume; Z. Wadiasingh; S.J. Wagner; J. Watson; Felix Werner; R. White; A. Wierzcholska; Yu Wun Wong; A. Yusafzai; M. Zacharias; R. Zanin; D. Zargaryan; A.A. Zdziarski; A. Zech; S. Zhu; J. Zorn; S. Zouari; N. Z̀ywucka

doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.103.102002

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Search for dark matter annihilation in the Wolf-Lundmark-Melotte dwarf irregular galaxy with H.E.S.S.

H. Abdallah, R. Adam, F. Aharonian, F. Ait Benkhali, E.O. Angüner, C. Arcaro, C. Armand, T. Armstrong, H. Ashkar, M. Backes, …

Phys.Rev.D, Vol.103(10)

2021

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.103.102002

Abstract

Experiments in gravity

cosmology

cosmic rays

dark matter: annihilation

gamma ray: VHE

Cherenkov counter: atmosphere

galaxy

photon photon

TeV

GeV

kinematics

imaging

HESS

S030DMA

S046PHB

We search for an indirect signal of dark matter through very high-energy γ rays from the Wolf-Lundmark-Melotte (WLM) dwarf irregular galaxy. The pair annihilation of dark matter particles would produce Standard Model particles in the final state such as γ rays, which might be detected by ground-based Cherenkov telescopes. Dwarf irregular galaxies represent promising targets as they are dark matter dominated objects with well-measured kinematics and small uncertainties on their dark matter distribution profiles. In 2018, the five-telescopes of the high energy stereoscopic system observed the dwarf irregular galaxy WLM for 18 hours. We present the first analysis based on data obtained from an imaging atmospheric Cherenkov telescope for this subclass of dwarf galaxy. As we do not observe any significant excess in the direction of WLM, we interpret the result in terms of constraints on the velocity-weighted cross section for dark matter pair annihilation ⟨σv⟩ as a function of the dark matter particle mass for various continuum channels, as well as the prompt γγ emission. For the τ+τ- channel, the limits reach a ⟨σv⟩ value of about 4×10-22 cm3 s-1 for a dark matter particle mass of 1 TeV. For the prompt γγ channel, the upper limit reaches a ⟨σv⟩ value of about 5×10-24 cm3 s-1 for a mass of 370 GeV. These limits represent an improvement of up to a factor 200, with respect to previous results for the dwarf irregular galaxies for TeV dark matter search.

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Title: Search for dark matter annihilation in the Wolf-Lundmark-Melotte dwarf irregular galaxy with H.E.S.S.
Creators - without role: H. Abdallah - North-West University
R. Adam - Laboratoire Leprince-Ringuet
F. Aharonian - Dublin Institute For Advanced Studies
F. Ait Benkhali - Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics
E.O. Angüner - Aix-Marseille Université
C. Arcaro - North-West University
C. Armand - Laboratoire d’Annecy de Physique des Particules
T. Armstrong - University of Oxford
H. Ashkar - Institut de Recherche sur les Lois Fondamentales de l'Univers
M. Backes - University of Namibia
V. Baghmanyan - Institute of Nuclear Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences
V. Barbosa Martins
A. Barnacka - Jagiellonian University
M. Barnard - North-West University
Y. Becherini - Linnaeus University
D. Berge
K. Bernlöhr - Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics
B. Bi - University of Tübingen
M. Böttcher - North-West University
C. Boisson - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
J. Bolmont - Laboratoire de Physique Nucléaire et de Hautes Énergies
M. de Bony de Lavergne - University of Amsterdam
M. Breuhaus - Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics
F. Brun - Université Paris-Saclay
P. Brun - Commissariat à l'Énergie Atomique et aux Énergies Alternatives
M. Bryan - University of Amsterdam
M. Büchele - Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg
T. Bulik - University of Warsaw
T. Bylund - Linnaeus University
S. Caroff - Laboratoire de Physique Nucléaire et de Hautes Énergies
A. Carosi - University of Amsterdam
S. Casanova - Institute of Nuclear Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences
T. Chand - North-West University
S. Chandra - North-West University
A. Chen - University of the Witwatersrand
G. Cotter - University of Oxford
M. Curyło - University of Warsaw
J. Damascene Mbarubucyeye
I.D. Davids - University of Namibia
J. Davies - University of Oxford
C. Deil - Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics
J. Devin - Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules
P. Dewilt - University of Adelaide
L. Dirson - Universität Hamburg
A. Djannati-Ataï - AstroParticule et Cosmologie
A. Dmytriiev - Université Paris Sciences et Lettres
A. Donath - Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics
V. Doroshenko - University of Tübingen
C. Duffy - University of Leicester
J. Dyks - Polish Academy of Sciences
K. Egberts - University of Potsdam
F. Eichhorn - Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg
S. Einecke - University of Adelaide
G. Emery - Sorbonne Paris Cité
J.-P. Ernenwein - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
K. Feijen - University of Adelaide
S. Fegan - Laboratoire Leprince-Ringuet
A. Fiasson - Laboratoire d’Annecy de Physique des Particules
G. Fichet de Clairfontaine - Université Paris Cité
G. Fontaine - Université Paris Cité
S. Funk - Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg
M. Füssling
S. Gabici - Université Paris Cité
Y.A. Gallant - Université de Montpellier, Laboratoire Univers et Particules de Montpellier - LUPM
G. Giavitto
L. Giunti - Institut de Recherche sur les Lois Fondamentales de l'Univers
D. Glawion - Heidelberg University
J.F. Glicenstein - Université Paris-Saclay
D. Gottschall - University of Tübingen
M.-H. Grondin - Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules
J. Hahn - Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics
M. Haupt
G. Hermann - Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics
J.A. Hinton - Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics
W. Hofmann - Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics
C. Hoischen - University of Potsdam
T.L. Holch - Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
M. Holler - Universität Innsbruck
M. Hörbe - University of Oxford
D. Horns - Universität Hamburg
D. Huber - Universität Innsbruck
M. Jamrozy - Jagiellonian University
D. Jankowsky - Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg
F. Jankowsky - Heidelberg University
A. Jardin-Blicq - Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics
V. Joshi - Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg
I. Jung-Richardt - Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg
E. Kasai - University of Namibia
M.A. Kastendieck - Universität Hamburg
K. Katarzyński - Nicolaus Copernicus University
U. Katz - Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg
D. Khangulyan - Rikkyo University
B. Khélifi - Laboratoire AstroParticule et Cosmologie
S. Klepser
W. Kluźniak - Nicolaus Copernicus Astronomical Center
Nu. Komin - University of the Witwatersrand
R. Konno
K. Kosack - Université Paris-Saclay
D. Kostunin
M. Kreter - North-West University
G. Lamanna - University of Amsterdam
A. Lemière - Laboratoire AstroParticule et Cosmologie
M. Lemoine-Goumard - Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules
J.-P. Lenain - Université Paris Cité
C. Levy - Sorbonne Paris Cité
T. Lohse - Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
I. Lypova
J. Mackey - Dublin Institute For Advanced Studies
J. Majumdar
D. Malyshev - University of Tübingen
V. Marandon - Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics
P. Marchegiani
Alexandre Marcowith - Université de Montpellier, Laboratoire Univers et Particules de Montpellier - LUPM
A. Mares - Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules
G. Martì-Devesa - Universität Innsbruck
R. Marx
G. Maurin - University of Amsterdam
P.J. Meintjes - University of the Free State
M. Meyer - Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg
R. Moderski - Polish Academy of Sciences
M. Mohamed - Heidelberg University
L. Mohrmann - Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg
A. Montanari - Institut de Recherche sur les Lois Fondamentales de l'Univers
C. Moore - University of Leicester
P. Morris - University of Oxford
E. Moulin - Commissariat à l'Énergie Atomique et aux Énergies Alternatives
J. Muller - École Polytechnique
T. Murach
K. Nakashima - Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg
A. Nayerhoda - Institute of Nuclear Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences
M. de Naurois - Laboratoire Leprince-Ringuet
H. Ndiyavala - North-West University
F. Niederwanger - Universität Innsbruck
J. Niemiec - Institute of Nuclear Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences
L. Oakes - Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
P. O'Brien
H. Odaka - The University of Tokyo
S. Ohm
L. Olivera-Nieto - Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics
E. de Ona Wilhelmi
M. Ostrowski - Jagiellonian University
M. Panter - Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics
S. Panny - Universität Innsbruck
R.D. Parsons - Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
G. Peron - Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics
B. Peyaud - Université Paris-Saclay
Q. Piel - University of Amsterdam
S. Pita - Université Paris Cité
V. Poireau - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
A. Priyana Noel - Jagiellonian University
D.A. Prokhorov - Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
H. Prokoph
G. Pühlhofer - University of Tübingen
M. Punch - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
A. Quirrenbach - Heidelberg University
S. Raab - Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg
R. Rauth - Universität Innsbruck
P. Reichherzer - Université Paris-Saclay
A. Reimer
O. Reimer - Universität Innsbruck
Q. Remy - Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics
Matthieu Renaud - Université de Montpellier, Laboratoire Univers et Particules de Montpellier - LUPM
F. Rieger - Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics
L. Rinchiuso - Institut de Recherche sur les Lois Fondamentales de l'Univers
C. Romoli - Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics
G. Rowell - University of Adelaide
B. Rudak - Nicolaus Copernicus Astronomical Center
E. Ruiz-Velasco - Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics
V. Sahakian - A. Alikhanyan National Laboratory
S. Sailer
D.A. Sanchez - Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics
A. Santangelo - University of Tübingen
M. Sasaki - Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg
M. Scalici - University of Tübingen
F. Schüssler - Institut de Recherches sur les lois Fondamentales de l'Univers
H.M. Schutte - North-West University
U. Schwanke - Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
S. Schwemmer - Heidelberg University
M. Seglar-Arroyo - Commissariat à l'Énergie Atomique et aux Énergies Alternatives
M. Senniappan - Linnaeus University
A.S. Seyffert - North-West University
N. Shafi - University of the Witwatersrand
K. Shiningayamwe - University of Namibia
R. Simoni - University of Amsterdam
A. Sinha - Université Paris Cité
H. Sol - Laboratoire Univers et Théories
A. Specovius - Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg
S. Spencer - University of Oxford
M. Spir-Jacob - Université Paris Cité
Ł. Stawarz - Jagiellonian University
L. Sun - University of Amsterdam
R. Steenkamp - University of Namibia
C. Stegmann - University of Potsdam
S. Steinmassl - Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics
C. Steppa - University of Potsdam
T. Takahashi - The University of Tokyo
T. Tavernier - Institut de Recherche sur les Lois Fondamentales de l'Univers
A.M. Taylor
R. Terrier - Université Paris Cité
D. Tiziani - Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg
M. Tluczykont - Universität Hamburg
L. Tomankova - Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg
C. Trichard - Laboratoire Leprince-Ringuet
M. Tsirou - Université de Montpellier, Laboratoire Univers et Particules de Montpellier - LUPM
R. Tuffs - Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics
Y. Uchiyama - Rikkyo University
D.J. van Der Walt - North-West University
C. van Eldik - Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg
C. van Rensburg - North-West University
B. van Soelen - University of the Free State
George Vasileiadis - Université de Montpellier, Laboratoire Univers et Particules de Montpellier - LUPM
J. Veh - Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg
C. Venter - North-West University
P. Vincent - Université Paris Cité
J. Vink - University of Amsterdam
H.J. Völk - Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics
T. Vuillaume - University of Amsterdam
Z. Wadiasingh - North-West University
S.J. Wagner - Heidelberg University
J. Watson - University of Oxford
Felix Werner - Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics
R. White - Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics
A. Wierzcholska - Heidelberg University
Yu Wun Wong - Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg
A. Yusafzai - Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg
M. Zacharias - Laboratoire Univers et Théories
R. Zanin - Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics
D. Zargaryan - Dublin Institute For Advanced Studies
A.A. Zdziarski - Polish Academy of Sciences
A. Zech - Université Paris Cité
S. Zhu
J. Zorn - Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics
S. Zouari - Université Paris Cité
N. Z̀ywucka - North-West University
Publication Details: Phys.Rev.D, Vol.103(10)
Identifiers: 9934305709311
Academic Unit: Laboratoire Univers et Particules de Montpellier - LUPM
Language: English
Resource Type: Journal article
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