Search for dark matter with IACTs and the Cherenkov Telescope Array

Understand

In the last decades an incredible amount of evidence for the existence of dark matter (DM) has been accumulating.

• At the same time, many efforts have been undertaken to try to identify what dark matter is made of.
• Indirect searches look at places in the Universe where dark matter is known to be abundant and seek for possible annihilation or decay signatures.
• Indirect searches with the Fermi Gamma ray Space Telescope and Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescopes (IACTs) are playing a crucial role in constraining the nature of the DM particle through the study of their annihilation into gamma rays from different astrophysical structures.