Constraints on dark matter and astrophysics from tomographic γ-ray cross-correlations
<p>We study the cross-correlation between maps of the unresolved 𝛾-ray background constructed from the 12-year data release of the <em>Fermi</em> Large-Area Telescope, and the overdensity of galaxies in the redshift range 𝑧≲0.4 as measur...
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2024
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| author | Paopiamsap, A Alonso, D Bartlett, D Bilicki, M |
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| description | <p>We study the cross-correlation between maps of the unresolved 𝛾-ray background constructed from the 12-year data release of the <em>Fermi</em> Large-Area Telescope, and the overdensity of galaxies in the redshift range 𝑧≲0.4 as measured by the 2MASS photometric redshift survey and the WISE-SuperCOSMOS photometric survey. A signal is detected at the 8−10𝜎 level, which we interpret in terms of both astrophysical 𝛾-ray sources, and weakly interacting massive particles (WIMP) dark matter decay and annihilation. The sensitivity achieved allows us to characterise the energy and redshift dependence of the signal, and we show that the latter is incompatible with a pure dark matter origin. We thus use our measurement to place an upper bound on the WIMP decay rate and the annihilation cross section, finding constraints that are competitive with those found in other analyses. Our analysis is based on the extraction of clean model-independent observables that can then be used to constrain arbitrary astrophysical and particle physics models. In this sense we produce measurements of the 𝛾-ray emissivity as a function of redshift and rest-frame energy 𝜖, and of a quantity 𝐹(𝜖) encapsulating all WIMP parameters relevant for dark matter decay or annihilation. We make these measurements, together with a full account of their statistical uncertainties, publicly available.</p> |
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| spelling | oxford-uuid:6c1a0875-a76c-4a8f-847f-9a659b5360e42024-06-07T10:26:28ZConstraints on dark matter and astrophysics from tomographic γ-ray cross-correlationsJournal articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_dcae04bcuuid:6c1a0875-a76c-4a8f-847f-9a659b5360e4EnglishSymplectic ElementsAmerican Physical Society2024Paopiamsap, AAlonso, DBartlett, DBilicki, M<p>We study the cross-correlation between maps of the unresolved 𝛾-ray background constructed from the 12-year data release of the <em>Fermi</em> Large-Area Telescope, and the overdensity of galaxies in the redshift range 𝑧≲0.4 as measured by the 2MASS photometric redshift survey and the WISE-SuperCOSMOS photometric survey. A signal is detected at the 8−10𝜎 level, which we interpret in terms of both astrophysical 𝛾-ray sources, and weakly interacting massive particles (WIMP) dark matter decay and annihilation. The sensitivity achieved allows us to characterise the energy and redshift dependence of the signal, and we show that the latter is incompatible with a pure dark matter origin. We thus use our measurement to place an upper bound on the WIMP decay rate and the annihilation cross section, finding constraints that are competitive with those found in other analyses. Our analysis is based on the extraction of clean model-independent observables that can then be used to constrain arbitrary astrophysical and particle physics models. In this sense we produce measurements of the 𝛾-ray emissivity as a function of redshift and rest-frame energy 𝜖, and of a quantity 𝐹(𝜖) encapsulating all WIMP parameters relevant for dark matter decay or annihilation. We make these measurements, together with a full account of their statistical uncertainties, publicly available.</p> |
| spellingShingle | Paopiamsap, A Alonso, D Bartlett, D Bilicki, M Constraints on dark matter and astrophysics from tomographic γ-ray cross-correlations |
| title | Constraints on dark matter and astrophysics from tomographic γ-ray cross-correlations |
| title_full | Constraints on dark matter and astrophysics from tomographic γ-ray cross-correlations |
| title_fullStr | Constraints on dark matter and astrophysics from tomographic γ-ray cross-correlations |
| title_full_unstemmed | Constraints on dark matter and astrophysics from tomographic γ-ray cross-correlations |
| title_short | Constraints on dark matter and astrophysics from tomographic γ-ray cross-correlations |
| title_sort | constraints on dark matter and astrophysics from tomographic γ ray cross correlations |
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