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blogs.discovermagazine.com - 10/29/2009

Has Fermi Seen New Evidence for Dark Matter?

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Speaking of successful NASA/DOE collaborations, there’s an interesting new paper on astro-ph claiming that the Fermi gamma-ray satellite has found evidence for a gamma-ray excess in the vicinity of the galactic center — similar to what you might expect from high-energy electrons ...

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skyandtelescope.com - 10/28/2009

Is Fermi Seeing Dark Matter?

— skyandtelescope.com — A team of Harvard researchers has upped the ante in the race to discover the true nature... of dark matter. In a new paper posted online this week, the team says NASA’s Fermi satellite has confirmed the existence of a vast cloud of energetic electrons ... (more) Is Fermi Seeing Dark Matter?

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motls.blogspot.com - 10/30/2009

Fermi sees the WMAP haze, too: dark matter?

— motls.blogspot.com — Last time we talked about the Fermi satellite, formerly known as GLAST, it just ruled out all... natural Lorentz-violating theories . A very new "Fermi" preprint by Douglas Finkbeiner, Tracy Slatyer, & Gregory Dobler from Harvard's Center ... (more) Fermi sees the WMAP haze, too: dark matter?

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universetoday.com - 10/29/2009

Einstein Still Rules, Says Fermi Telescope Team

— universetoday.com — While the Fermi Space Telescope has mapped the gamma ray sky with unprecedented resolution and sensitivity, it... now has been able to take a measurement that has provided rare experimental evidence about the very structure of space and time, unified ... (more) Einstein Still Rules, Says Fermi Telescope Team

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News Briefs 29-10-2009
TDG - Science, Magick, Myth and History — ... from the Kennedy Space Center, heralding the end of the space shuttle age [Video]. But not only NASA can have some fun with rockets: At the Mojave desert, teams of private entrepeneurs are trying to win 1 million bucks. The most distant object yet spied in the Universe: the remnants of a star that was born just 600 million years after the Big Bang —God's garage prototype? Has Fermi —the satellite, not the dead Italian dude— seen new evidence for Dark Matter? If there's nothing interesting to report, then ...

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Dynamics of Cats — ... And for this they shot down LISA? A factor of two descoped, still overpriced mission? JDEM's strength in the NAS review was that the 2m concept was TRL9+ - that something like it had already flown and costs were known. So now they want to do a smaller less instrumented telescope for more cost. Pah. Which reminds me, I need to cover HETDEX/BigBOSS concepts soon. Has Fermi Seen New Evidence for Dark Matter . No, probably not. Ok, it is possible, but an awful lot of people are spending a lot of time worrying about annihilation spectra and photon branching ratios of particles ...

Hail to Freedom
RESONAANCES — ... Withing short time, the release of Fermi data has spawned two independent analyses by theorists. One is being widely discussed on blogs (here and ...

Fermi may have spotted dark matter
Discover Magazine | rsslist — ... it’s composed of weird (and as yet undetected) particles called WIMPs (weakly interacting massive particles). A very odd property about them is that they are self-annihilating: when two of them touch, they turn into energy (and other, more easily detectable particles). When I first read about this several years ago I was pretty excited, because this is finally a testable hypothesis about dark matter. fermi-haze My fellow Hive Overmind blogger and astronomer Sean Carroll writes that it’s possible Fermi has done just this . The data are not conclusive, but very provocative ...