Dark Matter Searche with GLAST
Astrophysics
2009-06-23 v1
Abstract
The Gamma-Ray Large Area Space Telescope (GLAST), scheduled to be launched in fall 2007, is the next generation satellite for high-energy gamma-ray astronomy. The Large Area Telescope (LAT), GLAST main instrument, with a wide field of view (> 2 sr), a large effective area (> 8000 cm^2 at 1 GeV) and 20 MeV - 300 GeV energy range, will provide excellent high energy gamma-ray observations for Dark Matter searches. In this paper we examine the potential of the LAT to detect gamma-rays coming from WIMPS annihilation in the context of supersymmetry. As an example, two search regions are investigated: the galactic center and the galactic satellites.
Cite
@article{arxiv.0704.2738,
title = {Dark Matter Searche with GLAST},
author = {E. Nuss},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0704.2738},
year = {2009}
}