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Motivated by the recent observation of the 511 keV $\gamma$-ray line emissions from the galactic bulge and an explanation for it by the decays of light dark matter particles, we consider the light axino whose mass can be in the 1-10 MeV…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-11 Eung Jin Chun , Hang Bae Kim

Observations of the Milky Way by the SPI/INTEGRAL satellite have confirmed the presence of a strong 511 KeV gamma-ray line emission from the bulge, which require an intense source of positrons in the galactic center. These observations are…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Francesc Ferrer , Tanmay Vachaspati

We propose that a dark matter (DM) spike around the Galactic Center's (GC) supermassive black hole, Sgr A*, could account for most of the bulge's measured 511 keV line intensity while remaining cosmologically compatible. DM annihilation can…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-09-08 Pedro De la Torre Luque , Shyam Balaji , Malcolm Fairbairn , Filippo Sala , Joseph Silk

The imaging spectrometer SPI on board ESA's INTEGRAL observatory provides us with an unprecedented view of positron annihilation in our Galaxy. The first sky maps in the 511 keV annihilation line and in the positronium continuum from SPI…

The 511 keV emission from the Galactic Bulge observed by INTEGRAL/SPI could be the product of light (1-100 MeV) annihilating dark matter particles. In order to distinguish between annihilating light dark matter scenarios and more…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 B. Cordier , D. Attie , M. Casse , J. Paul , S. Schanne , P. Sizun , P. Jean , J. -P. Roques , G. Vedrenne

We consider axino warm dark matter in a supersymmetric axion model with R-parity violation. In this scenario, axino with the mass $m_\axino\simeq 7$ keV can decay into photon and neutrino resulting in the X-ray line signal at $3.5$ keV,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-19 Ki-Young Choi , Osamu Seto

The 511 keV positron annihilation emission remains a mysterious component of the high energy emission of our Galaxy. Its study was one of the key scientific objective of the SPI spectrometer on-board the INTEGRAL satellite. In fact, a lot…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-19 Laurent Bouchet , Jean-Pierre Roques , Elisabeth Jourdain

It has been recently proposed that the observed 511 keV emission from the Galactic bulge could be the product of very light (1-100 MeV) annihilating dark matter particles. Other possible explanations for this signal are associated with…

Recently a weak X-ray emission around E ~ 3.5 keV was detected in the Andromeda galaxy and various galaxy clusters including the Perseus galaxy cluster but its source has been unidentified. Axino, the superpartner of axion, with a mass 2E…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-01-17 Kyoungchul Kong , Jong-Chul Park , Seong Chan Park

We discuss the possibility that the recent detection of 511 keV gamma rays from the galactic bulge, as observed by INTEGRAL, can be naturally explained by the supermassive very dense droplets (strangelets) of dark matter. These droplets are…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-10 David H. Oaknin , Ariel R. Zhitnitsky

Dark matter might be made of "warm" particles, such as sterile neutrinos in the keV mass range, which can decay into photons through mixing and are consequently detectable by X-ray telescopes. Axionlike particles (ALPs) are detectable by…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-08-04 Ariane Dekker , Ebo Peerbooms , Fabian Zimmer , Kenny C. Y. Ng , Shin'ichiro Ando

It has recently been pointed out that the 511 keV emission line detected by Integral/SPI from the bulge of our galaxy could be explained by annihilations of light Dark Matter particles into e^+ e^-. If such a signature is confirmed, then…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-02-20 C. Boehm , P. Fayet , J. Silk

The observed galactic 511 keV line has been interpreted in a number of papers as a possible signal of dark matter annihilation within the galactic bulge. If this is the case then we should expect a similar spectral feature associated with…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-03-08 Kyle Lawson , Ariel Zhitnitsky

We present a map of 511 keV electron-positron annihilation emission, based on data accumulated with the SPI spectrometer aboard ESA's INTEGRAL gamma-ray observatory, that covers approximately 95% of the celestial sphere. 511 keV line…

We show that the $e^++e^-$ decay of a light scalar boson of mass 1-10 MeV may account for the fluxes of 511 keV gamma ray observed by SPI/INTEGRAL. We argue that candidates of such a light scalar boson is one of the string moduli or a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-11 M. Kawasaki , T. Yanagida

A sufficiently long lived warm dark matter could be a source of X-rays observed by satellite based X-ray telescopes. We consider axinos and gravitinos with masses between 1 keV and 100 keV in supersymmetric models with small R-parity…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2012-06-01 Paramita Dey , Biswarup Mukhopadhyaya , Sourov Roy , Sudhir K. Vempati

Diffuse 511 keV line emission, from the annihilation of cold positrons, has been observed in the direction of the Galactic Centre for more than 30 years. The latest high-resolution maps of this emission produced by the SPI instrument on…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Reba M. Bandyopadhyay , Joseph Silk , James E. Taylor , Thomas J. Maccarone

We present a measurement of the sky distribution of positronium (Ps) annihilation continuum emission obtained with the SPI spectrometer on board ESA's INTEGRAL observatory. The only sky region from which significant Ps continuum emission is…

Recently, indications for an emission line at 3.55 keV have been found in the combined spectra of a large number of galaxy clusters and also in Andromeda. This line could not be identified with any known spectral line. It is tempting to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-05-14 Joerg Jaeckel , Javier Redondo , Andreas Ringwald

Gamma ray emission of 511 keV lines arising from electron-positron annihilation has been detected from the Galaxy since the 70s. Spatially resolved observations using the INTEGRAL satellite have shown its full sky distribution to be…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-07-11 Hagai B. Perets
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