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Title: Diffuse gamma-ray constraints on dark matter revisited I: the impact of subhalos

Abstract

We make a detailed analysis of the indirect diffuse gamma-ray signals from dark matter annihilation in the Galaxy. We include the prompt emission, as well as the emission from inverse Compton scattering whenever the annihilation products contain light leptons. We consider both the contribution from the smooth dark matter halo and that from substructures. The main parameters for the latter are the mass function index and the minimal subhalo mass. We use recent results from N-body simulations to set the most reasonable range of parameters, and find that the signal can be boosted by a factor ranging from 2 to 15 towards the Galactic poles, slightly more towards the Galactic anticenter, with an important dependence on the subhalo mass index. This uncertainty is however much less than that of the extragalactic signal studied in the literature. We derive upper bounds on the dark matter annihilation cross section using the isotropic gamma-ray emission measured by Fermi-LAT, for two directions in the sky, the Galactic anticenter and the Galactic pole(s). The former represents the lowest irreducible signal from dark matter annihilation, and the latter is robust as the astrophysical background, dominated by the hadronic contribution, is rather well established in that direction.more » Finally, we show how the knowledge of the minimal subhalo mass, which formally depends on the dark matter particle interactions with normal matter, can be used to derive the mass function index.« less

Authors:
 [1];  [2]
  1. Institut de Théorie des Phénomènes Physiques, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, CH-1015 Lausanne (Switzerland)
  2. Laboratoire Univers and Particules de Montpellier (LUPM) CNRS-IN2P3 / Université Montpellier II (UMR-5299), Place Eugène Bataillon – CC 72 F-34095 Montpellier Cedex 05 (France)
Publication Date:
OSTI Identifier:
22279738
Resource Type:
Journal Article
Journal Name:
Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Volume: 2012; Journal Issue: 11; Other Information: Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA); Journal ID: ISSN 1475-7516
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
79 ASTROPHYSICS, COSMOLOGY AND ASTRONOMY; ANNIHILATION; ASTROPHYSICS; COMPTON EFFECT; COMPUTERIZED SIMULATION; COSMOLOGY; CROSS SECTIONS; GAMMA RADIATION; HADRONS; LEPTONS; MASS; MILKY WAY; NONLUMINOUS MATTER; VISIBLE RADIATION

Citation Formats

Blanchet, Steve, and Lavalle, Julien. Diffuse gamma-ray constraints on dark matter revisited I: the impact of subhalos. United States: N. p., 2012. Web. doi:10.1088/1475-7516/2012/11/021.
Blanchet, Steve, & Lavalle, Julien. Diffuse gamma-ray constraints on dark matter revisited I: the impact of subhalos. United States. https://doi.org/10.1088/1475-7516/2012/11/021
Blanchet, Steve, and Lavalle, Julien. 2012. "Diffuse gamma-ray constraints on dark matter revisited I: the impact of subhalos". United States. https://doi.org/10.1088/1475-7516/2012/11/021.
@article{osti_22279738,
title = {Diffuse gamma-ray constraints on dark matter revisited I: the impact of subhalos},
author = {Blanchet, Steve and Lavalle, Julien},
abstractNote = {We make a detailed analysis of the indirect diffuse gamma-ray signals from dark matter annihilation in the Galaxy. We include the prompt emission, as well as the emission from inverse Compton scattering whenever the annihilation products contain light leptons. We consider both the contribution from the smooth dark matter halo and that from substructures. The main parameters for the latter are the mass function index and the minimal subhalo mass. We use recent results from N-body simulations to set the most reasonable range of parameters, and find that the signal can be boosted by a factor ranging from 2 to 15 towards the Galactic poles, slightly more towards the Galactic anticenter, with an important dependence on the subhalo mass index. This uncertainty is however much less than that of the extragalactic signal studied in the literature. We derive upper bounds on the dark matter annihilation cross section using the isotropic gamma-ray emission measured by Fermi-LAT, for two directions in the sky, the Galactic anticenter and the Galactic pole(s). The former represents the lowest irreducible signal from dark matter annihilation, and the latter is robust as the astrophysical background, dominated by the hadronic contribution, is rather well established in that direction. Finally, we show how the knowledge of the minimal subhalo mass, which formally depends on the dark matter particle interactions with normal matter, can be used to derive the mass function index.},
doi = {10.1088/1475-7516/2012/11/021},
url = {https://www.osti.gov/biblio/22279738}, journal = {Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics},
issn = {1475-7516},
number = 11,
volume = 2012,
place = {United States},
year = {Thu Nov 01 00:00:00 EDT 2012},
month = {Thu Nov 01 00:00:00 EDT 2012}
}