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Dark matter subhalos in the Fermi first source catalog

Buckley, Matthew R. and Hooper, Dan (2010) Dark matter subhalos in the Fermi first source catalog. Physical Review D, 82 (6). Art. No. 063501. ISSN 2470-0010. doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.82.063501. https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechAUTHORS:20100920-090525230

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Abstract

The Milky Way’s dark matter halo is thought to contain large numbers of smaller subhalos. These objects can contain very high densities of dark matter and produce potentially observable fluxes of gamma rays. In this article, we study the gamma ray sources in the Fermi Gamma Ray Space Telescope’s recently published First Source Catalog and attempt to determine whether this catalog might contain a population of dark matter subhalos. We find that, while as many as approximately 20–60 of the catalog’s unidentified sources could plausibly be dark matter subhalos, such a population cannot be clearly identified as such at this time. From the properties of the sources in the First Source Catalog, we derive limits on the dark matter’s annihilation cross section that are comparably stringent to those derived from recent observations of dwarf spheroidal galaxies.


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Additional Information:© 2010 The American Physical Society. Received 16 April 2010; published 1 September 2010. M. B. is supported by the US Department of Energy, under Grant No. DE-FG03-92-ER40701. D. H. is supported by the US Department of Energy, including Grant No. DE-FG02-95ER40896, and by NASA Grant No. NAG5-10842.
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US Department of EnergyDE-FG03-92-ER40701
US Department of EnergyDE-FG02-95ER40896
NASANAG5-10842
Issue or Number:6
Classification Code:PACS: 95.35.+d
DOI:10.1103/PhysRevD.82.063501
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Deposited By: Tony Diaz
Deposited On:20 Sep 2010 16:48
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