Comment on "Fermi-LAT Galactic Center Excess Morphology of Dark Matter in Simulations of the Milky Way Galaxy"

arXiv:2609.34155 · astro-ph.HE, astro-ph.GA, hep-ph · Submitted 2026-09-28 · Read on arXiv

astro-ph.HE, astro-ph.GA, hep-ph

Submitted: 2026-09-28

Updated: 2026-09-28

Code: https://github.com/chrisgordon1/galactic_bulge_templates

Terminology

• Aperture — 8× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Degeneracy — 2× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes

Sources

• Fermi-LAT Galactic Center Excess morphology of dark matter in simulations of the Milky Way galaxy
• The Hestia project: simulations of the Local Group
• COBE's Galactic Bar and Disk
• A New Photometric Model of the Galactic Bar using Red Clump Giants
• Maximum Entropy Estimation of the Galactic Bulge Morphology via the VVV Red Clump
• Strong constraints on thermal relic dark matter from Fermi-LAT observations of the Galactic Center
• Detection of a Gamma-Ray Source in the Galactic Center Consistent with Extended Emission from Dark Matter Annihilation and Concentrated Astrophysical Emission
• The Characterization of the Gamma-Ray Signal from the Central Milky Way: A Compelling Case for Annihilating Dark Matter

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