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Old March 8th 16, 08:15 AM posted to sci.astro.research
Craig Markwardt[_2_]
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Default No WIMP Annihilation Observed In SMC

On Saturday, March 5, 2016 at 4:33:57 AM UTC-5, Robert L. Oldershaw wrote:
http://arxiv.org/abs/1603.00965

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Six years of Fermi-LAT data used.

"no signal"

Agrees no signal and with stronger limits for LMC (and MWG center?)


Thanks for quoting out of context. More context from the abstract
reveals, "we found that the SMC was well described by standard
astrophysical sources, and no signal from dark matter annihilation was
detected."

I.e. the Fermi analysis was not sensitive enough to detect to detect a
signal, which is different than claiming that Fermi detected a lack of
signal (which was not claimed).

And to be clear, there *IS* a claimed dark matter signal by Fermi from
the Milky Way galactic center.

CM