Galactic diffuse gamma rays --- recalculation based on the new measurements of cosmic electron spectrum

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2009-08-09

arxiv.org/abs/0908.1236v2

ApJ 720 (2010) 9

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena

23pages,7figures; Fermi diffuse gamma ray data are used, the corresponding discussion and figs are changed, sections are reorg

Scientific paper

10.1088/0004-637X/720/1/9

In this work, we revisit the all-sky Galactic diffuse $\gamma$-ray emission taking into account the new measurements of cosmic ray electron/positron spectrum by PAMELA, ATIC and Fermi, which show excesses of cosmic electrons/positrons beyond the expected fluxes in the conventional model. Since the origins of the extra electrons/positrons are not clear, we consider three different scenarios to account for the excesses: the astrophysical sources such as the Galactic pulsars, dark matter decay and annihilation. Further, new results from Fermi-LAT of the (extra-)Galactic diffuse $\gamma$-ray are adopted. The background cosmic rays without the new sources give lower diffuse $\gamma$ rays compared to Fermi-LAT observation, which is consistent with previous analysis. The scenario with astrophysical sources predicts diffuse $\gamma$-rays with little difference with the background. The dark matter annihilation models with $\tau^{\pm}$ final state are disfavored by the Fermi diffuse $\gamma$-ray data, while there are only few constraints on the decaying dark matter scenario. Furthermore, these is always a bump at higher energies ($\sim$ TeV) of the diffuse $\gamma$-ray spectra for the dark matter scenarios due to final state radiation. Finally we find that the Fermi-LAT diffuse $\gamma$-ray data can be explained by simply enlarging the normalization of the electron spectrum without introduce any new sources, which may indicate that the current constraints on the dark matter models can be much stronger given a precise background estimate.

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