@article{9fd44ae1a99e475088e06ba6e5d4c1bd,
title = "Searching for Dark Matter Annihilation from Milky Way Dwarf Spheroidal Galaxies with Six Years of Fermi Large Area Telescope Data",
abstract = "The dwarf spheroidal satellite galaxies (dSphs) of the Milky Way are some of the most dark matter (DM) dominated objects known. We report on γ-ray observations of Milky Way dSphs based on six years of Fermi Large Area Telescope data processed with the new Pass8 event-level analysis. None of the dSphs are significantly detected in γ rays, and we present upper limits on the DM annihilation cross section from a combined analysis of 15 dSphs. These constraints are among the strongest and most robust to date and lie below the canonical thermal relic cross section for DM of mass 100 GeV annihilating via quark and τ-lepton channels.",
author = "\{(The Fermi-LAT Collaboration)\} and M. Ackermann and A. Albert and B. Anderson and Atwood, \{W. B.\} and L. Baldini and G. Barbiellini and D. Bastieri and K. Bechtol and R. Bellazzini and E. Bissaldi and Blandford, \{R. D.\} and Bloom, \{E. D.\} and R. Bonino and E. Bottacini and Brandt, \{T. J.\} and J. Bregeon and P. Bruel and R. Buehler and Caliandro, \{G. A.\} and Cameron, \{R. A.\} and R. Caputo and M. Caragiulo and Caraveo, \{P. A.\} and C. Cecchi and E. Charles and A. Chekhtman and J. Chiang and G. Chiaro and S. Ciprini and R. Claus and J. Cohen-Tanugi and J. Conrad and A. Cuoco and S. Cutini and F. D'Ammando and \{De Angelis\}, A. and \{De Palma\}, F. and R. Desiante and Digel, \{S. W.\} and \{Di Venere\}, L. and Drell, \{P. S.\} and A. Drlica-Wagner and R. Essig and C. Favuzzi and Fegan, \{S. J.\} and Ferrara, \{E. C.\} and Focke, \{W. B.\} and A. Franckowiak and Y. Fukazawa and D. Horan",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2015 American Physical Society.",
year = "2015",
month = nov,
day = "30",
doi = "10.1103/PhysRevLett.115.231301",
language = "English",
volume = "115",
journal = "Physical Review Letters",
issn = "0031-9007",
number = "23",
}