Search for Dark Matter Satellites using the FERMI-LAT

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2012-01-12

arxiv.org/abs/1201.2691v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena

29 pages, 5 figures, 3 tables; Accepted by ApJ; Contact authors: Alex Drlica-Wagner, Ping Wang, Louie Strigari, and Elliott Bl

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Numerical simulations based on the Lambda-CDM model of cosmology predict a large number of as yet unobserved Galactic dark matter satellites. We report the results of a Large Area Telescope (LAT) search for these satellites via the gamma-ray emission expected from the annihilation of weakly interacting massive particle (WIMP) dark matter. Some dark matter satellites are expected to have hard gamma-ray spectra, finite angular extents, and a lack of counterparts at other wavelengths. We sought to identify LAT sources with these characteristics, focusing on gamma-ray spectra consistent with WIMP annihilation through the $b \bar b$ channel. We found no viable dark matter satellite candidates using one year of data, and we present a framework for interpreting this result in the context of numerical simulations to constrain the velocity-averaged annihilation cross section for a conventional 100 GeV WIMP annihilating through the $b \bar b$ channel.

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