All-Sky Dark Matter Annihilation Limits with HAWC

ORAL

Abstract

The High Altitude Water Cherenkov Observatory (HAWC) is a high energy (500 GeV to 100 TeV) gamma ray detector located in southern Mexico. HAWC operates via the water Cherenkov technique and has both a wide ( 2 sr) field of view and near continuous duty cycle, making it ideal for unbiased sky surveys. We use the HAWC 2HWC catalog from 507 days of observations to perform such a search for dark matter annihilation signals in the observed HAWC sky. We perform both a targeted search of HAWC sources which have no known association with lower-energy counterparts as well as an unbiased search of the entire sky. We use these results to set upper limits on dark matter annihilation across the sky.

Authors

  • Joseph Lundeen

    Michigan State Univ