Introducing the Model-Agnostic Dark Halo Analysis Tool (\texttt{MADHAT})

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Abstract

We present a brief overview of the Model-Agnostic Dark Halo Analysis Tool (\texttt{MADHAT}), a numerical tool that implements a Fermi-LAT data-driven, model-independent analysis of gamma-ray emission due to dark matter annihilation in dwarf spheroidal galaxies. This tool efficiently provides statistical upper bounds on dark matter annihilation using a stacked analysis of any selected set of dwarf spheroidal galaxy targets, under any assumptions the user makes regarding dark sector particle physics or astrophysics.

*This work is supported in part by NSF Grant No. PHY-1720282 and DOE Grant No. DE-SC0010504.

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Authors

  • Pearl Sandick

    • University of Utah

  • Kimberly Boddy

    • Johns Hopkins University

  • Stephen Hill

    • University of Hawaii

  • Jason Kumar

    • University of Hawaii

  • Barmak Shams Es Haghi

    • University of Utah