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    H.E.S.S. constraints on dark matter annihilations towards the Sculptor and Carina dwarf galaxies

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    2011
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    Abramowski, A.
    Büsching, I.
    De Jager, O.C.
    Venter, C.
    Vorster, M.
    H.E.S.S. Collaboration
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    The Sculptor and Carina dwarf spheroidal galaxies were observed with the H.E.S.S. Cherenkov telescope array between January 2008 and December 2009. The data sets consist of a total of 11.8 h and 14.8 h of high quality data, respectively. No gamma-ray signal was detected at the nominal positions of these galaxies above 220 GeV and 320 GeV, respectively. Upper limits on the gamma-ray fluxes at 95% CL assuming two forms for the spectral energy distribution (a power law shape and one derived from dark matter annihilation) are obtained at the level of 10-13-10-12 cm-2 s-1 in the TeV range. Constraints on the velocity weighted dark matter particle annihilation cross section for both Sculptor and Carina dwarf galaxies range from σʋ~ 10-21 cm3 s-1 down to σʋ i ~ 10-22 cm3 s-1 depending on the dark matter halo model used. Possible enhancements of the gamma-ray flux are studied: the Sommerfeld effect, which is found to exclude some dark matter particle masses, the internal Bremsstrahlung and clumps in the dark-matter halo distributions.
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    http://hdl.handle.net/10394/7243
    https://doi.org/10.1016/j.astropartphys.2010.12.006
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