Highlights of GeV and TeV Gamma-ray astronomy and Indirect Dark Matter Searches with the Fermi Large Area Telescope

par Eric Nuss (LUPM, CNRS/IN2P3 - Université de Montpellier II)

lundi 4 juin 2012, 14:00 → 15:00 Europe/Paris

Amphithéâtre (CPPM)

In the past few years gamma-ray astronomy has entered in a moment of great advancement, led by the full operation of ground-based arrays (H.E.S.S., MAGIC, and VERITAS) and the launch and operations of Fermi and Agile. This modern suite of telescopes is now scanning the sky over both hemispheres and over six orders of magnitude in energy. I will present a snapshot of the current census of astrophysical gamma-ray sources and highlight some recent discoveries relevant to fundamental physics. I will focus in particular on results related to the field of indirect search for Dark Matter and the constraints on dark matter particle models derived from GeV to TeV observations.

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