Synchrotron Emission from Dark Matter Annihilation: Predictions for Constraints from Non-detections of Galaxy Clusters with New Radio Surveys

Storm, Emma; Jeltema, Tesla E.; Splettstoesser, Megan; Profumo, Stefano

doi:10.3847/1538-4357/aa6748

Synchrotron Emission from Dark Matter Annihilation: Predictions for Constraints from Non-detections of Galaxy Clusters with New Radio Surveys

Journal Article · Mon Apr 10 00:00:00 EDT 2017 · The Astrophysical Journal (Online)

DOI:https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/aa6748· OSTI ID:1537181

Storm, Emma ^[1]; Jeltema, Tesla E. ^[2]; Splettstoesser, Megan ^[3]; Profumo, Stefano ^[2]

Univ. of Amsterdam (Netherlands); DOE/OSTI
Univ. of California, Santa Cruz, CA (United States). Dept. of Physics, and Santa Cruz Inst. for Particle Physics
Univ. of California, Santa Cruz, CA (United States). Dept. of Physics

The annihilation of dark matter particles is expected to yield a broad radiation spectrum via the production of Standard Model particles in astrophysical environments. In particular, electrons and positrons from dark matter annihilation produce synchrotron radiation in the presence of magnetic fields. Galaxy clusters are the most massive collapsed structures in the universe, and are known to host ~$$μ$$G-scale magnetic fields. They are therefore ideal targets to search for, or to constrain the synchrotron signal from dark matter annihilation. In this work, we use the expected sensitivities of several planned surveys from the next generation of radio telescopes to predict the constraints on dark matter annihilation models which will be achieved in the case of non-detections of diffuse radio emission from galaxy clusters. Specifically, we consider the Tier 1 survey planned for the Low Frequency Array (LOFAR) at 120 MHz, the Evolutionary Map of the Universe (EMU) survey planned for the Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder (ASKAP) at 1.4 GHz, and planned surveys for Aperture Tile in Focus (APERTIF) at 1.4 GHz. For massive clusters and dark matter masses $$\lesssim 100\,\mathrm{GeV}$$, the predicted limits on the annihilation cross section would rule out vanilla thermal relic models for even the shallow LOFAR Tier 1, ASKAP, and APERTIF surveys.

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Research Organization:: Univ. of California, Santa Cruz, CA (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Science (SC)

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OSTI ID:: 1537181

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Journal Information:: The Astrophysical Journal (Online), Journal Name: The Astrophysical Journal (Online) Journal Issue: 1 Vol. 839; ISSN 1538-4357

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