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Zhang, Le; Sigl, Guenter; Miniati, Francesco
Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY), Hamburg (Germany)2010
Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY), Hamburg (Germany)2010
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[en] High energy electrons and positrons from annihilating dark matter can imprint unique angular anisotropies on the diffuse gamma-ray flux by inverse Compton scattering off the interstellar radiation field. We develop a numerical tool to compute gamma-ray emission from such electrons and positrons diffusing in the smooth host halo and in substructure halos with masses down to 10-6Msun. We show that, unlike the total gamma-ray angular power spectrum observed by Fermi-LAT, the angular power spectrum from inverse Compton scattering is exponentially suppressed below an angular scale determined by the diffusion length of electrons and positrons. For TeV scale dark matter with a canonical thermal freeze-out cross section 3 x 10-26 cm3/s, this feature may be detectable by Fermi-LAT in the energy range 100-300 GeV after more sophisticated foreground subtraction. We also find that the total flux and the shape of the angular power spectrum depends sensitively on the spatial distribution of subhalos in the Milky Way. Finally, the contribution from the smooth host halo component to the gamma-ray mean intensity is negligibly small compared to subhalos. (orig.)
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Aug 2010; 23 p; ISSN 0418-9833;
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ANGULAR DISTRIBUTION, ANISOTROPY, ANNIHILATION, COMPTON EFFECT, COSMIC ELECTRONS, COSMIC PHOTONS, COSMIC POSITRONS, COSMIC RAY FLUX, COSMIC RAY PROPAGATION, DIFFUSION, GEV RANGE 100-1000, INTERSTELLAR MAGNETIC FIELDS, MILKY WAY, NONLUMINOUS MATTER, PHOTON-ELECTRON INTERACTIONS, SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION, STATISTICAL MODELS, TRANSPORT THEORY
ANTILEPTONS, ANTIMATTER, ANTIPARTICLES, BASIC INTERACTIONS, BOSONS, COSMIC RADIATION, DISTRIBUTION, ELASTIC SCATTERING, ELECTROMAGNETIC INTERACTIONS, ELECTRONS, ELEMENTARY PARTICLES, ENERGY RANGE, FERMIONS, GALAXIES, GEV RANGE, INTERACTIONS, IONIZING RADIATIONS, LEPTONS, MAGNETIC FIELDS, MASSLESS PARTICLES, MATHEMATICAL MODELS, MATTER, PARTICLE INTERACTIONS, PHOTON-LEPTON INTERACTIONS, PHOTONS, POSITRONS, RADIATION FLUX, RADIATIONS, SCATTERING, SECONDARY COSMIC RADIATION
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