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Implications of the intermediate mass black hole in globular cluster G1 on dark matter detection

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PHYSICAL REVIEW D
Volume 78, Issue 2, Pages -

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AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.78.027301

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  1. U. S. Department of Energy
  2. Division of High Energy Physics [DE-AC02-06CH11357]

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Recently there has been growing evidence in favor of the presence of an intermediate mass black hole in the globular cluster G1, in Andromeda Galaxy. Under the assumption that formation of this globular cluster occurred within a dark matter halo, we explore whether the presence of a black hole could result in an observable gamma ray signal due to dark matter annihilation in this globular cluster. Starting from an initial Navarro-Frenk-White matter profile, with density parameters consistent with G1 observations, we find that indeed, if the spike in the density has been formed and has survived until the present, the signal could be observed by GLAST and current atmospheric Cerenkov telescope detectors.

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