Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 171303 (2005) [4 pages]Can Dark Matter Annihilation Dominate the Extragalactic Gamma-Ray Background?
Shin’ichiro Ando Received 22 November 2004; revised 8 February 2005; published 5 May 2005 Annihilating dark matter (DM) has been discussed as a possible source of gamma rays from the galactic center and as a contribution to the extragalactic gamma-ray background. Assuming universality of the density profile of DM halos, we show that it is quite unlikely that DM annihilation is a main constituent of extragalactic gamma-ray background, without exceeding the observed gamma-ray flux from the galactic center. This argument becomes stronger when we include enhancement of the density profiles by supermassive black holes or baryon cooling. The presence of a substructure may loosen the constraint, but only if a very large cross section as well as the rather flat profile are realized. ©2005 The American Physical Society
URL: http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.94.171303 * Electronic address: ando@utap.phys.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp [ Abstract | Previous article | Next article | Issue 17 ] |
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