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Article Dans Une Revue Physical Review D Année : 2014

Dark matter contribution to Galactic diffuse gamma ray emission

Lin F. Yang
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Alexander S. Szalay
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Rosemary F. G. Wyse
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Brandon Bozek
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Piero Madau
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Résumé

Observations of diffuse Galactic gamma ray emission (DGE) by the Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) allow a detailed study of cosmic rays and the interstellar medium. However, diffuse emission models of the inner Galaxy underpredict the Fermi-LAT data at energies above a few GeV and hint at possible nonastrophysical sources including dark matter (DM) annihilations or decays. We present a study of the possible emission components from DM using the high-resolution Via Lactea II N-body simulation of a Milky Way—sized DM halo. We generate full-sky maps of DM annihilation and decay signals that include modeling of the adiabatic contraction of the host density profile, Sommerfeld-enhanced DM annihilations, p-wave annihilations, and decaying DM. We compare our results with the DGE models produced by the Fermi-LAT team over different sky regions, including the Galactic center, high Galactic latitudes, and the Galactic anticenter. This work provides possible smooth component templates of DM to fit the observational data. The subhalo contributions can be considered to provide statistically meaningful templates and demonstrate how spatial profiles are significantly modified according to different annihilation or decay scenarios. We argue that a subhalo-based approach can help constrain the DM physics.
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insu-03645684 , version 1 (24-04-2022)

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Lin F. Yang, Joseph Silk, Alexander S. Szalay, Rosemary F. G. Wyse, Brandon Bozek, et al.. Dark matter contribution to Galactic diffuse gamma ray emission. Physical Review D, 2014, 89, ⟨10.1103/PhysRevD.89.063530⟩. ⟨insu-03645684⟩
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