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Gamma-ray evidences of the dark matter clumps

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena 2014-04-09 v1 Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics

Abstract

We discuss the possibility of identification of point-like gamma-ray sources (PGS) with small scale dark matter (DM) clumps in our Galaxy. Gamma-rays are supposed to originate from annihilation of DM particles in the clumps, where annihilation rate is supposed to be enhanced, besides higher density, due to smaller relative velocities vv of DM particles. We parameterized the annihilation cross section σann(v)\sigma_\text{ann}(v) in the form of an arbitrary power law dependence on the relative velocity vv with/without factor of Sommerfeld-Gamow-Sakharov, implying existence of a new Coulomb-like interaction. Adopting different parameters of cross section and clump, satisfying condition Ω0.2\Omega\lesssim 0.2 on density of DM particles of question, they are constrained from comparison with Fermi/LAT data on unidentified PGS as well as on diffuse γ\gamma-radiation; results are applied to concrete DM candidates. Such analysis is found to be sensitive enough to existing uncertainty in the density profiles of DM in the clump what can provide a tool for their test. Also we discuss possibilities when gamma-radiating clump changes visibly its position on celestial sphere and it is seen as a spatially extended gamma-source (EGS), what can be probed in future experiments like Gamma-400.

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@article{arxiv.1212.6087,
  title  = {Gamma-ray evidences of the dark matter clumps},
  author = {K. M. Belotsky and A. A. Kirillov and M. Yu. Khlopov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1212.6087},
  year   = {2014}
}