Journal
JOURNAL OF COSMOLOGY AND ASTROPARTICLE PHYSICS
Volume -, Issue 4, Pages -Publisher
IOP Publishing Ltd
DOI: 10.1088/1475-7516/2012/04/030
Keywords
dark matter theory; gamma ray experiments
Funding
- Natural Science Foundation of China [11075169, 11075074, 11065004, 11105155, 11105157, 11175251]
- 973 project [2010CB833000]
- Chinese Academy of Science [KJCX2-EW-W01]
- Research Fund for the Doctoral Program of Higher Education [200802840009]
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The globular clusters are probably good targets for dark matter (DM) searches in gamma-rays due to the possible adiabatic contraction of DM by baryons. In this work we analyse the three-year data collected by Fermi Large Area Telescope of globular clusters NGC 6388 and M 15 to search for possible DM signals. For NGC 6388 the detection of gamma-ray emission was reported by Fermi collaboration, which is consistent with the emission of a population of millisecond pulsars. The spectral shape of NGC 6388 is also shown to be consistent with a DM contribution if assuming the annihilation final state is b (b) over bar. No significant gamma-ray emission from M 15 is observed. We give the upper limits of DM contribution to gamma-ray emission in both NGC 6388 and M 15, for annihilation final states b (b) over bar, W+W-, mu(+)mu(-), tau(+)tau(-) and monochromatic line. The constraints are stronger than that derived from observation of dwarf galaxies by Fermi.
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