The impact of propagation uncertainties on the potential Dark Matter contribution to the Fermi LAT mid-latitude gamma-ray data

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2010-03-14

arxiv.org/abs/1003.2808v2

Phys.Rev.D82:103521,2010

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena

V2: 25 pages, 9 figures and 13 tables. Replaced to match version accepted for publication in PRD. Major revisions to address r

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevD.82.103521

We investigate the extent to which the uncertainties associated with the propagation of Galactic cosmic rays impact upon estimates for the gamma-ray flux from the mid-latitude region. We consider contributions from both standard astrophysical background (SAB) processes as well as resolved point sources. We have found that the uncertainties in the total gamma-ray flux from the mid-latitude region relating to propagation parameter values consistent with local B/C and Be10/Be9 data dominate by 1-2 orders of magnitude. These uncertainties are reduced to less than an order of magnitude when the normalisations of the SAB spectral components are fitted to the corresponding Fermi LAT data. We have found that for many propagation parameter configurations (PPCs) our fits improve when an extragalactic background (EGB) component is simultaneously fitted to the data. We also investigate the improvement in our fits when a flux contribution from neutralino dark matter (DM), described by the Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model, was simultaneously fitted to the data. We consider three representative cases of neutralino DM for both Burkert and Einasto DM density profiles, in each case simultaneously fitting a boost factor of the DM contribution together with the SAB and EGB components. We have found that for several PPCs there are significant improvements in our fits, yielding both substantial EGB and DM components, where for a few of these PPCs the best-fit EGB component is consistent with recent estimates by the Fermi Collaboration.

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