Annihilating dark matter or noise?: A statistical examination of the Fermi GeV excess around the Galactic Centre

Abstract

I acknowledge support from the Spanish taxpayers through a Ram´on y Cajal fellowship during the early stages of this work. I thank Jos´e Luis Contreras for helpful comments. I would like to acknowledge all the cooks at the ramen shop inside the Kanayama Station in Nagoya, where the bulk of the calculations were completed during the Fifth International Fermi Symposium. This research was supported by a senior appointment to the NASA Postdoctoral Program at the Goddard Space Flight Center, administered by Oak Ridge Associated Universities through a contract with NASA.