WMAP Microwave Emission Interpreted as Dark Matter Annihilation in the Inner Galaxy

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Dec 2004

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2004aas...205.8201f&link_type=abstract

American Astronomical Society Meeting 205, #82.01; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 36, p.1478

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Synchrotron emission from a population of ultra-relativistic electrons in the inner Galaxy has been observed by the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP). After careful modeling of the microwave foreground signals from Galactic interstellar medium (free-free, "ordinary" synchrotron, thermal dust, and spinning dust) a residual microwave signal is present within 10-20 degrees of the Galactic center, uncorrelated with any known foreground template. The most likely explanation for this mysterious component is synchrotron emission from an unusually hot electron energy distribution. The source of these electrons is still uncertain, but the spatial distribution, inferred energy spectrum, and total number are consistent with their being positron-electron pairs produced by WIMP annihilation. I will review the evidence for this hot electron component, and show that it could be produced by dark matter particles, assuming masses and cross sections previously considered in the literature. I will also briefly discuss complementary observations that could confirm its interpretation as an indirect detection of WIMP annihilation.

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