Annihilation vs. Decay: Constraining Dark Matter Properties from a Gamma-Ray Detection in Dwarf Galaxies

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2010-12-10

arxiv.org/abs/1012.2335v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics

7 pp, 3 figs. Contribution to the proceedings of the 8th Workshop on Identification of Dark Matter (IDM 2010), July 26-30, 201

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Although most proposed dark matter candidates are stable, in order for dark matter to be present today, the only requirement is that its lifetime is longer than the age of the Universe, t_U ~ 4 10^17 s. Moreover, the dark matter particle could be produced via non-thermal processes and have a larger annihilation cross section from the canonical value for thermal dark matter, ~ 3 10^{-26} cm3/s. We propose a strategy to distinguish between dark matter annihilation and/or decay in the case that a clear signal is detected in future gamma-ray observations of Milky Way dwarf galaxies with gamma-ray experiments. The discrimination between these cases would not be possible in the case of the measurement of only the energy spectrum. We show that by studying the dependence of the intensity and energy spectrum on the angular distribution of the signal, the origin of the signal could be identified, and some information about the presence of substructure might be extracted.

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