Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Scientific paper
2010-06-28
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
9 pages, 11 figures, added references
Scientific paper
The observed angular profile of the 511-keV photon excess from the Milky Way galactic center can allow us to select among combinations of various dark matter and other positron production mechanisms with various models for the dark matter distribution. We find that a relic decay scenario gives too flat an angular distribution for any dark matter distribution in our survey, but that a dark matter-dark matter collisional scenario, or a scenario that involves particles emitted from a localized central source producing positrons some distance out, can match the observed galactic center angular profile if the dark matter distribution is neither too flat nor too cuspy. Additionally, positron migration or diffusion before annihilation broadens the angular profile to an extent that an average migration of more than half a kiloparsec is not viable with most dark matter distributions. The observed angular profile is also consistent with the occurrence of transient events in the past, followed by isotropic positron diffusion.
Abidin Zainul
Afanasev Andrei
Carlson Carl E.
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