Indications for a gamma-ray line(s) signal toward the Galactic Center at an energy of about 130 GeV have been recently presented. While dark matter annihilations are a viable candidate for this signal, it is generally expected that such a flux would be correlated to a gamma-ray component with continuum energy spectrum due to dark matter pair annihilating into other Standard Model particles. We use the gamma-ray data from the inner 10 degrees x 10 degrees window to derive limits for a variety of dark matter annihilation final states. Extending the window of observation, we discuss bounds on the morphological shape of a dark matter signal associated to the line, applying both standard templates for the dark matter profile, such as an Einasto or a Navarro-Frenk-White profile, and introducing a new more general parametrization.

Searching for the continuum spectrum photons correlated to the 130 GeV gamma-ray line / Cholis, I; Tavakoli, M; Ullio, Piero. - In: PHYSICAL REVIEW D, PARTICLES, FIELDS, GRAVITATION, AND COSMOLOGY. - ISSN 1550-7998. - 86:8(2012), pp. 083525.1-083525.8. [10.1103/PhysRevD.86.083525]

Searching for the continuum spectrum photons correlated to the 130 GeV gamma-ray line

Ullio, Piero
2012-01-01

Abstract

Indications for a gamma-ray line(s) signal toward the Galactic Center at an energy of about 130 GeV have been recently presented. While dark matter annihilations are a viable candidate for this signal, it is generally expected that such a flux would be correlated to a gamma-ray component with continuum energy spectrum due to dark matter pair annihilating into other Standard Model particles. We use the gamma-ray data from the inner 10 degrees x 10 degrees window to derive limits for a variety of dark matter annihilation final states. Extending the window of observation, we discuss bounds on the morphological shape of a dark matter signal associated to the line, applying both standard templates for the dark matter profile, such as an Einasto or a Navarro-Frenk-White profile, and introducing a new more general parametrization.
2012
86
8
1
8
083525
https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.86.083525
https://arxiv.org/abs/1207.1468
Cholis, I; Tavakoli, M; Ullio, Piero
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