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Gamma-ray Signal from Earth-mass Dark Matter Microhalos

  • Authors: Tomoaki Ishiyama, Junichiro Makino, and Toshikazu Ebisuzaki

ISHIYAMA, MAKINO, & EBISUZAKI 2010 The Astrophysical Journal Letters 723 L195.

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Caption: Figure 5.

All-sky map of the gamma-ray annihilation signal of our Galaxy. Pointlike sources indicated by arrows show the contributions from microhalos less than 1 pc from the observer and with flux larger than 0.03 photons m −2 s −1 sr −1. Here, we assume that the number of photons per annihilation is N γ = 30, the interaction cross section of dark matter is langσ v rang = 3.0 × 10 −26 cm 3 s -1, and the mass of dark matter particle is m χ = 100 GeV. The flux of the integrated emission of microhalos in the galactic center is 1.40 photons m −2 s −1 sr −1. The flux of the most brightest microhalo is 0.069 photons m −2 s −1 sr −1. The flux needed for a 10σ detection for Fermi is ~0.4 × 10 −6 photons cm −2 s −1 for low Galactic latitude and is ~0.1 × 10 −6 photons cm −2 s −1 for high Galactic latitude (Abdo et al. 2009a). The angular resolution of Fermi is about 0.1 deg for energies above 1 GeV.

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