Limits on Supersymmetric Dark Matter From EGRET Observations of the Galactic Center Region

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2002-10-29

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0210617v1

Phys.Rev. D70 (2004) 113007

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

4 pages, 3 figures

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevD.70.113007

In most supersymmetic models, neutralino dark matter particles are predicted to accumulate in the Galactic center and annihilate generating, among other products, gamma rays. The EGRET experiment has made observations in this region, and is sensitive to gamma rays from 30 MeV to $\sim$30 GeV. We have used an improved point source analysis including an energy dependent point spread function and an unbinned maximum likelihood technique, which has allowed us to significantly lower the limits on gamma ray flux from the Galactic center. We find that the present EGRET data can limit many supersymmetric models if the density of the Galactic dark matter halo is cuspy or spiked toward the Galactic center. We also discuss the ability of GLAST to test these models.

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