Gamma-Ray Background from Neutralino Annihilation in the First Cosmological Objects

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2005-04-05

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0504096v2

Astrophys.J. 633 (2005) L65-L68

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

5 pages including 3 figures. The version accepted for publication in ApJL. Presentation improved, main conclusions unchanged

Scientific paper

10.1086/497691

The paradigm of the neutralino dark matter predicts that the first gravitationally bound objects are earth-mass sized microhaloes, which would emit annihilation gamma-rays. Here we show that, though the flux from individual nearest microhaloes is extremely difficult to detect, meaningful constraints on their survival probability and internal density profile can be set by requiring that the galactic and extragalactic gamma-ray background flux from the microhaloes does not exceed the existing EGRET background data. Possible disruption of microhaloes by stellar encounters does not significantly reduce the background flux. If the probability for microhaloes to survive the hierarchical clustering process of dark matter is as large as indicated by a recent simulation, they could be a significant component of the observed background flux in some photon energy range, even with the standard annihilation cross section and conservative internal density profile of microhaloes. The integrated gamma-ray flux from microhaloes in the halo of the Andromeda galaxy may also be detectable by observations in the near future.

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