The presence of dark matter in the Universe is nowadays widely supported by a large body of astronomical and cosmological observations. One of the best targets to look for dark matter particle self-annihilation into very high energy gamma-rays is the Galactic Center (GC) region. A search for annihilating dark matter in the central 300 parsecs around the GC is performed with the H.E.S.S. array of ground-based Cherenkov telescopes. Using the full H.E.S.S.- I dataset (2004-2014) for this region, new constraints are derived on the velocity-weighted annihilation cross section with a 2D likelihood method, taking advantage of differences in both spectral and spatial morphologies of signal and background. Higher statistics from the 10-years GC dataset of H.E.S.S. I together with a novel analysis technique, allow to improve the present constraints by a factor of 2 for a DM particle mass of 1 TeV. The expected improvement in sensitivity of the new analysis technique, applied to performances of the H.E.S.S.-II array, is also presented.
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Lefranc, V., & Moulin, E. (2015). Dark matter search in the inner Galactic halo with H.E.S.S. i and H.E.S.S. II. In Proceedings of Science (Vol. 30-July-2015). Proceedings of Science (PoS). https://doi.org/10.22323/1.236.1208
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