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PHYSICAL REVIEW D
Volume 93, Issue 10, Pages -Publisher
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.93.103525
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- National Basic Research Program of China [2013CB837000]
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [11525313, 11103084]
- Foundation for Distinguished Young Scholars of Jiangsu Province, China [BK2012047]
- Strategic Priority Research Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences [XDA04075500]
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Galaxy clusters are the largest gravitationally bound objects in the Universe and may be suitable targets for indirect dark matter searches. With 85 months of Fermi LAT Pass 8 publicly available data, we analyze the gamma-ray emission in the direction of 16 nearby galaxy clusters with an unbinned likelihood analysis. No statistically or globally significant gamma-ray line feature is identified and a tentative line signal may present at similar to 43 GeV. The 95% confidence level upper limits on the velocity-averaged cross section of dark matter particles annihilating into double gamma rays (i.e., sigma nu (chi chi -> gamma gamma)) are derived. Unless very optimistic boost factors of dark matter annihilation in these galaxy clusters have been assumed, such constraints are much weaker than the bounds set by the Galactic gamma-ray data.
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