Observations of the Fermi bubbles and the Galactic center excess with the DArk Matter Particle Explorer
Authors:
- F. AlemannoFAF. Alemanno
- Q. AnQAQ. An
- P. AzzarelloPAP. Azzarello
- F. C. T. BarbatoFBF. C. T. Barbato
- P. BernardiniPBP. Bernardini
- X. J. BiXBX. J. Bi
- H. BoutinHBH. Boutin
- I. CagnoliICI. Cagnoli
- M. S. CaiMCM. S. Cai
- E. CasilliECE. Casilli
- J. ChangJCJ. Chang
- D. Y. ChenDCD. Y. Chen
Preprint
Abstract
The DArk Matter Particle Explorer (DAMPE) is a space-borne high-energy particle detector that surveys the $γ$-ray sky above$\sim 2~\rm GeV$ with a peak acceptance of $\sim 0.2~\rm m^2\,sr$. With the 102 months of data collected by DAMPE, we show that the Fermi bubbles are detected at a significance of $\sim 26σ$ and identify a GeV excess in the direction of Galactic center at $\sim 7 σ$ confidence. Both spectra and morphology are consistent with those observed by Fermi-LAT and the GeV excess component can be interpreted by the dark matter annihilation with a mass of $\sim 50$ GeV and a velocity-averaged cross section of $\sim 10^{-26}~{\rm cm^{3}~s^{-1}}$ for the $χχ\rightarrow b\bar{b}$ channel. Our results thus provide the first independent detection of these two intriguing diffuse gamma-ray sources besides Fermi-LAT.