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通过伽马射线绘制河外暗物质结构

Mapping extragalactic dark matter structures through gamma-rays

Jesus Zavala, Volker Springel, Michael Boylan-Kolchin

摘要:

如果暗物质是由中性伴子组成的,那么它们湮灭时产生的伽马射线辐射就为暗物质的探测提供了一个诱人的可能性。这一过程可能对FERMI卫星正在以前所未有的灵敏度测量的河外伽马射线背景辐射有很大贡献。利用高分辨率的千禧年-II宇宙结构形成模拟,我们已经产生了第一个全天空地图的预期贡献的暗物质湮灭的EGB辐射。我们的地图包括一个适当的归一化的信号根据一个特定的超对称模型的基础上最小的超引力。新的模拟地图允许从暗物质湮灭,它具有独特的功能与湮灭过程的性质相关的伽马射线背景的角功率谱的研究。我们的研究结果是在广泛的协议与分析模型的伽马射线背景,但它们也包括高阶相关性不容易在分析计算,此外,提供详细的光谱信息,每个像素。特别是,我们发现,不同能量的彩色图可以揭示宇宙的大尺度结构在低和中等红移。

英文摘要:

If dark matter is composed of neutralinos, the gamma-ray radiation produced in their annihilation offers an attractive possibility for dark matter detection. This process may contribute significantly to the extragalactic gamma-ray background (EGB) radiation, which is being measured by the FERMI satellite with unprecedented sensitivity. Using the high-resolution Millennium-II simulation of cosmic structure formation we have produced the first full-sky maps of the expected contribution of dark matter annihilation to the EGB radiation. Our maps include a proper normalization of the signal according to a specific supersymmetric model based on minimal supergravity. The new simulated maps allow a study of the angular power spectrum of the gamma-ray background from dark matter annihilation, which has distinctive features associated with the nature of the annihilation process. Our results are in broad agreement with analytic models for the gamma-ray background, but they also include higher-order correlations not readily accessible in analytic calculations and, in addition, provide detailed spectral information for each pixel. In particular, we find that color maps combining different energies can reveal the cosmic large-scale structure at low and intermediate redshifts.

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