Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 171303 (2005) [4 pages]

Can Dark Matter Annihilation Dominate the Extragalactic Gamma-Ray Background?

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Shin’ichiro Ando
Department of Physics, School of Science, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo 113-0033, Japan

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
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.94.171303
PACS: 95.35.+d, 98.35.Gi, 98.70.Rz, 98.70.Vc

* Electronic address: ando@utap.phys.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp

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