Applications of X-ray Instrumentation for Dark Matter Searches with Cosmic-ray Antiparticles by Rogers, Field Rose

“…Using X-ray observations of the giant molecular cloud Sagittarius B2, new upper limits are set on low-energy cosmic ray populations near the Galactic center. The limits are comparable to predictions from hydrogen ionization measurements, supporting the observation of elevated Galactic Center cosmic ray populations.…”
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Seeing Black Holes: From the Computer to the Telescope by Jean-Pierre Luminet

“…Astronomical observations are about to deliver the very first telescopic image of the massive black hole lurking at the Galactic Center. The mass of data collected in one night by the Event Horizon Telescope network, exceeding everything that has ever been done in any scientific field, should provide a recomposed image in 2018. …”
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Have Atmospheric Cerenkov Telescopes Observed Dark Matter? by Hooper, D, Perez, I, Silk, J, Ferrer, F, Sarkar, S

“…Two ground-based experiments have recently independently detected TeV $\gamma$-rays from the direction of the Galactic center. The observations made by the VERITAS and CANGAROO collaborations are unexpected, although not impossible to interpret in terms of astrophysical sources. …”

Hunting for Cold Exoplanets via Microlensing by Beaulieu, Jean-Philippe

“…Microlensing can detect planets at distances ranging from a few hundred parsecs all the way to the Galactic center. The maximum sensitivity is reached for systems that are located half way to the galactic center, with planets orbiting the lens star at a separation of few AUs. …”
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Indirect detection of Dark Matter with the ANTARES Neutrino Telescope by Ardid Miguel

“…The analysis for different sources of DM (Sun, Galactic Center, Earth, …) or DM models (SUSY, Secluded) will be described and the results presented. …”
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Gamma-ray signatures of Dark Matter by Cirelli Marco

“…I review the ways in which Dark Matter can produce gamma-rays (and lower energy photons) and I apply the considerations to three specific examples: the tests of multi-TeV pure-WIMP candidates based on high energy gamma-rays from the Galactic Center or dwarfs, the importance of bremsstrahlung emission for light DM, the updated constraints on DM from all-sky radio surveys of the Milky Way.…”
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Highlights on gamma rays, neutrinos and antiprotons from TeV Dark Matter by Gammaldi Viviana

“…It has been shown that the gamma-ray flux observed by HESS from the J1745-290 Galactic Center source is well fitted as the secondary gamma-rays photons generated from Dark Matter annihilating into Standard Model particles in combination with a simple power law background. …”
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Tracking millisecond pulsars responsible for the Fermi GeV excess by Berteaud Joanna, Calore Francesca, Clavel Maïca

“…More than 10 years ago, an excess of γ-ray photons coming from the Galactic center was discovered in the Fermi-LAT data. …”
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Kinematics of the Local Spiral Structure Revealed by Young Stars in Gaia DR3 by Dejian Liu, Ye Xu, Chaojie Hao, Shuaibo Bian, Zehao Lin, Yingjie Li, Jingjing Li

“…Meanwhile, the sources in the Carina Arm may move in the opposite direction from the Sun to the Galactic center and rotate marginally faster than Galactic rotation. …”
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The characterization of the gamma-ray signal from the central Milky Way: A case for annihilating dark matter by Daylan, Tansu, Finkbeiner, Douglas P., Hooper, Dan, Linden, Tim, Portillo, Stephen K.N., Rodd, Nicholas Llewellyn, Slatyer, Tracy Robyn

“…Past studies have identified a spatially extended excess of ~1-3 GeV gamma rays from the region surrounding the Galactic Center, consistent with the emission expected from annihilating dark matter. …”
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(In)direct detection of boosted dark matter by Agashe, Kaustubh, Cui, Yanou, Necib, Lina, Thaler, Jesse

“…We initiate the study of novel thermal dark matter (DM) scenarios where present-day annihilation of DM in the galactic center produces boosted stable particles in the dark sector. …”
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(In)direct detection of boosted dark matter by Agashe, Kaustubh, Cui, Yanou, Necib, Lina, Thaler, Jesse

“…We initiate the study of novel thermal dark matter (DM) scenarios where present-day annihilation of DM in the galactic center produces boosted stable particles in the dark sector. …”
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Dark nuclei. I. Cosmology and indirect detection by Detmold, William, Pochinsky, Andrew, McCullough, Matthew P.

“…Notably, dark nucleosynthesis realizes a novel mechanism for indirect detection signals of asymmetric dark matter from regions such as the Galactic center, without having to rely on a symmetric dark matter component.…”
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Gravitational lensing by a black-bounce-Reissner–Nordström spacetime by Jing Zhang, Yi Xie

“…Assuming the supermassive black holes in the Galactic Center and at the center of M87, Sgr A* and M87* respectively, as the lenses, we evaluate these observables and assess their detectability. …”
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The orbit of the old, metal-rich, open cluster NGC 6791 by Minchev I., Jílková L., Carraro G., Jungwiert B.

“…To estimate the viability of one of the cluster’s proposed scenarios of origin we also follow a set of forward integrations originating closer to the Galactic center (GC) where the metal enrichment could be faster. …”
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Weak and strong deflection gravitational lensing by a renormalization group improved Schwarzschild black hole by Xu Lu, Yi Xie

“…By taking the supermassive black holes Sgr A* and M87* respectively in the Galactic Center and at the center of M87 as lenses, we estimate these observables and analyse possibility of detecting this quantum improvement. …”
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Z-Distribution and Period Gradient of Classical Cepheids in the Galactic Plane by Chulhee Kim

“…The well known phenomenon that the periods of classical cepheids decrease away from the Galactic center was crudely interpreted as due to an age gradient rather than an abundance gradient under the assumption that relations between the period and galactocentric distance, and between the abundance and period are linear.…”
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On the Population of Wind-Accreting Neutron Stars in the Galaxy by Pfahl, E, Rappaport, S, Podsiadlowski, P

“…This work was motivated by recent Chandra observations of the Galactic center by Wang et al. (2002). Our calculations indicate that many of the discrete X-ray sources detected in this survey may be wind-accreting neutron stars, and that many more may be discovered with deeper X-ray observations. …”

Modeling the Radial Distribution of Pulsars in the Galaxy by J. T. Xie, J. B. Wang, N. Wang, R. Manchester, G. Hobbs

“…The radial distribution function is used to estimate the proportion of pulsars in each spiral arm and the Galactic center.…”
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The Hot Circumgalactic Medium of the Milky Way: New Insights from XMM-Newton Observations by Joy Bhattacharyya, Sanskriti Das, Anjali Gupta, Smita Mathur, Yair Krongold

“…The presence of the super-virial phase far from the regions around the Galactic center implicates physical processes unrelated to the activity at the Galactic center. …”
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