Perseus - A Huge Reservoir of Dark Matter investigated with MAGIC

Doro, Michele; Palacio, Joaquim; Rico, Javier; Vazquez Acosta, Monica
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IAU Symposium

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2020
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4
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1
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Galaxy clusters are excellent targets for high energy astrophysics with gamma rays. Not only they may host active galaxies, but they are often expected to provide signatures of accelerations of electrons and protons to PeV energies. Furthermore, according to ΛCDM scenario, they should be embedded in an extremely massive dark matter halo, the largest halo expected. In this report, we summarize the recently published MAGIC lower limits on the decaying dark matter lifetime using 202 h of selected high quality data taken on the Perseus galaxy cluster, in a 5-year long campaign.