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Searching For Dark Matter Sub-Structure With Hawc, A. U. Abeysekara, A. Albert, R. Alfaro, C. Alvarez, R. Arceo, J. C. Arteaga-Valazquez, Chad Brisbois, H. Fleischhack, Binita Hona, P. Huntemeyer, Et Al.
Searching For Dark Matter Sub-Structure With Hawc, A. U. Abeysekara, A. Albert, R. Alfaro, C. Alvarez, R. Arceo, J. C. Arteaga-Valazquez, Chad Brisbois, H. Fleischhack, Binita Hona, P. Huntemeyer, Et Al.
Michigan Tech Publications
Numerical simulations show that the dark matter halos surrounding galaxies are expected to contain many over-densities or sub-halos. The most massive of these sub-halos can be optically observed in the form of dwarf galaxies. However, most lower mass sub-halos are predicted to exist as dark dwarf galaxies: sub-halos like dwarf galaxies with no luminous counterpart. It may be possible to detect these unseen sub-halos from gamma-ray signals originating from dark matter annihilation. The High Altitude Water Cherenkov Observatory (HAWC) is a very high energy (500 GeV to >100 TeV) gamma ray detector with a wide field-of-view and near continuous duty …