Implications of High-Resolution Simulations on Indirect Dark Matter Searches

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2009-08-03

arxiv.org/abs/0908.0195v2

Phys.Rev.D83:023518,2011

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena

23 pages, 15 figures, revised version (e.g. more insights on the spatial distribution of subhalos)

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevD.83.023518

We study the prospects for detecting the annihilation products of Dark Matter [DM] in the framework of the two highest-resolution numerical simulations currently available, i.e. {\it Via Lactea II} and {\it Aquarius}. We propose a strategy to determine the shape and size of the region around the Galactic center that maximizes the probability of observing a DM signal, and we show that although the predicted flux can differ by a factor of 10 for a given DM candidate in the two simulation setups, the search strategy remains actually unchanged, since it relies on the angular profile of the annihilation flux, not on its normalization. We present mock gamma-ray maps that keep into account the diffuse emission produced by unresolved halos in the Galaxy, and we estimate that in an optimistic DM scenario a few individual clumps can be resolved above the background with the Fermi-LAT. Finally we calculate the energy-dependent boost factors for positrons and antiprotons, and show that they are always of $\cal O$(1), and therefore they cannot lead to the large enhancements of the antimatter fluxes required to explain the recent PAMELA, ATIC, Fermi and HESS data.

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