Search for a gamma-ray line feature from a group of nearby Galaxy clusters with Fermi LAT Pass 8 data

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Galaxy clusters are the largest gravitationally bound objects in the universe and may be suitable targets for indirect dark matter searches.

• With 85 months of Fermi-LAT Pass 8 publicly available data, we analyze the gamma-ray emission in the directions of 16 nearby Galaxy Clusters with an unbinned likelihood analysis.
• No globally statistically-significant $\gamma-$ray line feature is identified and a tentative line signal may be present at $\sim 43$ GeV.
• The 95\% confidence level upper limits on the velocity-averaged cross section of dark matter particles annihilating into double $\gamma-$rays (i.e., $\langle \sigma v \rangle_{\chi\chi\rightarrow \gamma\gamma}$) are derived.