Galactic Substructure and Dark Matter Annihilation in the Milky Way Halo

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2010-01-18

arxiv.org/abs/1001.3144v2

Phys.Rev.D81:043532,2010

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Galaxy Astrophysics

10 pages, 7 figures, submitted to Phys. Rev. D; added a few references

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevD.81.043532

We study the effects of substructure on the rate of dark-matter annihilation in the Galactic halo. We use an analytic model for substructure that can extend numerical simulation results to scales too small to be resolved by the simulations. We first calibrate the analytic model to numerical simulations, and then determine the annihilation boost factor, for standard WIMP models as well as those with Sommerfeld (or other) enhancements, as a function of Galactocentric radius in the Milky Way. We provide an estimate of the dependence of the gamma-ray intensity of WIMP annihilation as a function of angular distance from the Galactic center. This methodology, coupled with future numerical simulation results can be a powerful tool that can be used to constrain WIMP properties using Fermi all-sky data.

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