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JOURNAL OF COSMOLOGY AND ASTROPARTICLE PHYSICS
卷 -, 期 7, 页码 -出版社
IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.1088/1475-7516/2012/07/011
关键词
dark matter theory; dark matter experiments; gamma ray theory; gamma ray experiments
资金
- NASA [NNX11AQ10G]
- Department of Energy
- DoE [DE-FG02-04ER41286]
- NASA [NNX11AQ10G]
- Department of Energy
- DoE [DE-FG02-04ER41286]
- NASA [NNX11AQ10G] Funding Source: Federal RePORTER
- NASA [139196] Funding Source: Federal RePORTER
Recently, tentative evidence for an excess of gamma rays at energies around 130 GeV has been reported from analyses of data from the Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT). The excess is potentially of great interest, as it could be associated with the pair-annihilation of Galactic dark matter and the subsequent production of monochromatic or internal bremsstrahlung, gamma, rays. The 130 GeV excess appears when an optimized selection of the target region of interest is employed, a procedure that depends upon the assumed dark matter density profile. For the profiles producing an appreciable signal, these target regions vastly overlap with the region corresponding to the so-called Fermi bubbles. We argue that the tentative evidence for a line feature is likely due to hard photons in the Fermi bubbles regions, where the gamma-ray spectrum contains a spectral break in the energy range of interest (100-150 GeV). Although the origin of this broken power-law is unclear, it is probably related to standard astrophysical processes and not to dlark matter annihilation. A broken power-law provides as good a fit as a line excess, even within small energy windows, and a significantly better fit for large energy windows.
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