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by essive 3117 days ago
Hmmmm...scientists are still debating whether the signal is dark matter or pulsar output (high energies create electron-positron pairs). I see this recent Chinese paper debating if DAMPE can even distinguish dark matter positron remnants or pulsars - Wang et al. (2017) say this - "For the pulsar case, the latest Fermi-LAT anisotropy limits have also been taken into account. Our results show that the cases of DM annihilations to τ+τ− and all charged leptons are difficult to be distinguished from the pulsar cases by the current experiments and DAMPE"