Fermi Constrains Dark Matter Origin of High Energy Positron Anomaly

Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics – High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena

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ApJ Letters, in press, revised version

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Fermi measurements of the high-latitude gamma-ray background strongly constrain a decaying-dark-matter origin for the 1--100 GeV Galactic positron anomaly measured with PAMELA. Inverse-Compton scattering of the microwave background by the emergent positrons produces a bump in the diffuse 100-200 MeV gamma-ray background that would protrude from the observed background at these energies. The positrons are thus constrained to emerge from the decay process at a typical energy between ~100 GeV and ~250 GeV. By considering only gamma-ray emission of the excess positrons and electrons, we derive a minimum diffuse gamma-ray flux that, apart from the positron spectrum assumed, is independent of the actual decay modes. Any gamma-rays produced directly by the dark-matter decay leads to an additional signal that make the observational limits more severe. A similar constraint on the energy of emergent positrons from annihilation in dark-matter substructures is argued to exist, according to recent estimates of enhancement in low-mass dark-matter substructures, and improved simulations of such substructure will further sharpen this constraint.

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