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用Fermi-LAT对银河系中心γ射线约束暗物质性质的研究

Constraining Dark Matter Properties with Gamma-Rays from the Galactic Center with Fermi-LAT

Nicolas Bernal, Sergio Palomares-Ruiz

摘要:

我们研究的费米-LAT仪器上的费米任务约束粒子暗物质的属性,作为湮灭截面,质量和分支比占主导地位的湮灭通道,从银河系中心的伽马射线观测的能力。除了瞬发γ射线通量,我们还考虑了暗物质湮灭中产生的电子/正电子通过星际光子背景的逆康普顿散射对γ射线信号的贡献,这在暗物质湮灭为mu+mu-和e+e-对的情况下是至关重要的。我们研究了信号对不同参数的依赖性,如观测区域、密度分布、暗物质模型的假设和传播模型中的不确定性。我们还显示了在伽马射线背景中包含20%的系统不确定性的影响。如果费米-LAT是能够区分一个可能的暗物质信号从大的伽马射线背景,我们表明,对于暗物质质量低于200 GeV,费米-LAT将可能能够确定暗物质的性能具有良好的精度。

英文摘要:

We study the capabilities of the Fermi-LAT instrument on board of the Fermi mission to constrain particle dark matter properties, as annihilation cross section, mass and branching ratio into dominant annihilation channels, with gamma-ray observations from the galactic center. Besides the prompt gamma-ray flux, we also take into account the contribution from the electrons/positrons produced in dark matter annihilations to the gamma-ray signal via inverse Compton scattering off the interstellar photon background, which turns out to be crucial in the case of dark matter annihilations into mu+mu- and e+e- pairs. We study the signal dependence on different parameters like the region of observation, the density profile, the assumptions for the dark matter model and the uncertainties in the propagation model. We also show the effect of the inclusion of a 20% systematic uncertainty in the gamma-ray background. If Fermi-LAT is able to distinguish a possible dark matter signal from the large gamma-ray background, we show that for dark matter masses below ~200 GeV, Fermi-LAT will likely be able to determine dark matter properties with good accuracy.

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