Yeah, this signal should be a lot easier to detect in dwarf galaxies, and yet it is not.

... but I agree with Stacy that the assumed MW halo is too massive/dense to be realistic. And I'd expect that if you reduce the assumed dark matter density, the same amount of DM needs to generate a stronger signal. Which should increase rather than ease the tension with dwarf galaxy constraints.

Just skimming the stuff I know really well, I can say categorically that the DM halo is inconsistent with data. The local DM density is a factor of 2 too high, and the central density way too high - there is no room for an NFW cusp is the MW. That’s critical for the signal.

OMG we’re not doing this again, are we? There was a claim to this effect 11 or 12 years ago. 126 GeV instead of 20, but then as now, if that were real, I trust the Fermi team would have been the first to tell us about it.

Nah. Was paraphrasing ghostbusters is all. m.youtube.com/shorts/LV2dl...

Effen ewoks, man

Can’t live with them, stormtroopers can’t shoot them.

Crudely speaking, Thermo, E&M, & mechanics for BA; add QM for BS. That’s not exactly right; for details see bulletin.case.edu/arts-science...