Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2008-02-26
Phys.Rev.D78:083505,2008
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
16 pages, REVTeX4. Updated to correspond with published version: includes additional appendices discussing finite-size effects
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevD.78.083505
In this paper we show that dark matter in the form of dense matter/antimatter nuggets could provide a natural and unified explanation for several distinct bands of diffuse radiation from the core of the Galaxy spanning over 12 orders of magnitude in frequency. We fix all of the phenomenological properties of this model by matching to x-ray observations in the keV band, and then calculate the unambiguously predicted thermal emission in the microwave band, at frequencies smaller by 10 orders of magnitude. Remarkably, the intensity and spectrum of the emitted thermal radiation are consistent with--and could entirely explain--the so-called "WMAP haze": a diffuse microwave excess observed from the core of our Galaxy by the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP). This provides another strong constraint of our proposal, and a remarkable nontrivial validation. If correct, our proposal identifies the nature of the dark matter, explains baryogenesis, and provides a means to directly probe the matter distribution in our Galaxy by analyzing several different types of diffuse emissions.
Forbes Michael McNeil
Zhitnitsky Ariel R.
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