Dark Matter constraints from Planck observations of the Galactic polarized synchrotron emission
Abstract
Dark Matter (DM) annihilation in our Galaxy may produce a linearly polarized synchrotron signal. We use, for the first time, synchrotron polarization to constrain the DM annihilation cross section by comparing theoretical predictions with the latest polarization maps obtained by the Planck satellite collaboration. We find that synchrotron polarization is typically more constraining than synchrotron intensity by about one order of magnitude, independently of uncertainties in the modeling of electron and positron propagation, or of the Galactic magnetic field. Our bounds compete with Cosmic Microwave Background limits in the case of leptophilic DM.
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@article{arxiv.2204.04232,
title = {Dark Matter constraints from Planck observations of the Galactic polarized synchrotron emission},
author = {Silvia Manconi and Alessandro Cuoco and Julien Lesgourgues},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2204.04232},
year = {2022}
}
Comments
6+11 pages, 3+9 figures. Minor comments added, results unchanged. Matches the version accepted by PRL