Does the gamma-ray signal from the central Milky Way indicate Sommerfeld enhancement of dark matter annihilation?. (October 2016)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Chan, Man-Ho
• Is Part Of: Research in astronomy and astrophysics. Volume 16:Number 10(2016:Oct.)
• Publication Date: 2016-10
• Subjects: (cosmology): dark matter; Astronomy -- Periodicals; Astrophysics -- Periodicals; 520.5
• DOI: 10.1088/1674-4527/16/10/163
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1674-4527

Abstract

Abstract: Recently, some studies showed that the GeV gamma-ray excess signal from the central Milky Way can be explained by the annihilation of ∼ 40 GeV dark matter through the bb̄ channel. Based on the morphology of the gamma-ray flux, the best-fit inner slope of the dark matter density profile is γ = 1.26. However, recent analyses of the Milky Way dark matter profile favor γ = 0.6 – 0.8. In this article, we show that the GeV gamma-ray excess can also be explained by the Sommerfeld-enhanced dark matter annihilation through the bb̄ channel with γ = 0.85 – 1.05. We constrain the parameters of the Sommerfeld-enhanced annihilation by using data from Fermi-LAT. We also show that the predicted gamma-ray fluxes emitted from dwarf galaxies generally satisfy recent upper limits on gamma-ray fluxes detected by Fermi-LAT.