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Effective $J$-factors for Milky Way dwarf spheroidal galaxies with velocity-dependent annihilation

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics 2020-08-04 v4 Astrophysics of Galaxies High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

Abstract

We calculate the effective JJ-factors, which determine the strength of indirect detection signals from dark matter annihilation, for 25 dwarf spheroidal galaxies (dSphs). We consider several well-motivated assumptions for the relative velocity dependence of the dark matter annihilation cross section: σAv\sigma_A v: ss-wave (velocity independent), pp-wave (σAvv2\sigma_A v \propto v^2), dd-wave (σAvv4\sigma_A v \propto v^4), and Sommerfeld-enhancement in the Coulomb limit (σAv1/v\sigma_A v \propto 1/v). As a result we provide the largest and most updated sample of J-factors for velocity-dependent annihilation models. For each scenario, we use Fermi-LAT gamma-ray data to constrain the annihilation cross section. Due to the assumptions made in our gamma-ray data analysis, our bounds are comparable to previous bounds on both the pp-wave and Sommerfeld-enhanced cross sections using dSphs. Our bounds on the dd-wave cross section are the first such bounds using indirect detection data.

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@article{arxiv.1909.13197,
  title  = {Effective $J$-factors for Milky Way dwarf spheroidal galaxies with velocity-dependent annihilation},
  author = {Kimberly K. Boddy and Jason Kumar and Andrew B. Pace and Jack Runburg and Louis E. Strigari},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1909.13197},
  year   = {2020}
}

Comments

v3: Fix minor formatting issues. v2: Accepted to PRD with minor changes. 13 pages, 6 figures, 1 table