Constraints on Dark Matter Annihilation in Clusters of Galaxies with the Fermi Large Area Telescope

Markus Ackermann; Marco Ajello; A. Allafort; Luca Baldini; Jean Ballet; Guido Barbiellini; D. Bastieri; K. Bechtol; R. Bellazzini; R.D. Blandford; E.D. Bloom; E. Bonamente; A.W. Borgland; A. Bouvier; T.J. Brandt; J. Bregeon; M. Brigida; Pascal Bruel; R. Buehler; S. Buson; G.A. Caliandro; R.A. Cameron; P. A. Caraveo; S. Carrigan; J.M. Casandjian; C. Cecchi; E. Charles; A. Chekhtman; C.C. Cheung; J. Chiang; S. Ciprini; R. Claus; J. Cohen-Tanugi; L.R. Cominsky; J. Conrad; A. de Angelis; F. de Palma; E. Do Couto E Silva; P.S. Drell; A. Drlica-Wagner; R. Dubois; D. Dumora; Y. Edmonds; C. Farnier; C. Favuzzi; S.J. Fegan; M. Frailis; Y. Fukazawa; P. Fusco; F. Gargano; D. Gasparrini; N. Gehrels; S. Germani; N. Giglietto; F. Giordano; T. Glanzman; G. Godfrey; I.A. Grenier; S. Guiriec; M. Gustafsson; A.K. Harding; M. Hayashida; D. Horan; R.E. Hughes; T.E. Jeltema; G. Jóhannesson; A. S. Johnson; W.N. Johnson; T. Kamae; H. Katagiri; J. Kataoka; Jürgen Knödlseder; M. Kuss; J. Lande; L. Latronico; S.-H. Lee; M. Llena Garde; F. Longo; F. Loparco; M.N. Lovellette; P. Lubrano; G.M. Madejski; A. Makeev; M.N. Mazziotta; P.F. Michelson; W. Mitthumsiri; T. Mizuno; A.A. Moiseev; C. Monte; M.E. Monzani; A. Morselli; I.V. Moskalenko; S. Murgia; P.L. Nolan; J.P. Norris; E. Nuss; M. Ohno; T. Ohsugi; N. Omodei; E. Orlando; J.F. Ormes; J.H. Panetta; M. Pepe; M. Pesce-Rollins; F. Piron; T.A. Porter; S. Profumo; S. Rainò; M. Razzano; T. Reposeur; S. Ritz; A.Y. Rodriguez; M. Roth; H.F.-W. Sadrozinski; A. Sander; J.D. Scargle; C. Sgrò; E.J. Siskind; P.D. Smith; G. Spandre; P. Spinelli; Jean-Luc Starck; M.S. Strickman; D.J. Suson; H. Takahashi; T. Tanaka; J.B. Thayer; J.G. Thayer; L. Tibaldo; D.F. Torres; G. Tosti; T.L. Usher; V. Vasileiou; V. Vitale; A.P. Waite; P. Wang; B.L. Winer; K.S. Wood; Z. Yang; T. Ylinen; M. Ziegle

doi:10.1088/1475-7516/2010/05/025

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Constraints on Dark Matter Annihilation in Clusters of Galaxies with the Fermi Large Area Telescope

Markus Ackermann, Marco Ajello, A. Allafort, Luca Baldini, Jean Ballet, Guido Barbiellini, D. Bastieri, K. Bechtol, R. Bellazzini, R.D. Blandford, …

Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics

05/2010

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1088/1475-7516/2010/05/025

Abstract

gamma ray experiments

galaxy clusters

supersymmetry and cosmology

dark energy theory

Nearby clusters and groups of galaxies are potentially bright sources of high-energy gamma-ray emission resulting from the pair-annihilation of dark matter particles. However, no significant gamma-ray emission has been detected so far from clusters in the first 11 months of observations with the Fermi Large Area Telescope. We interpret this non-detection in terms of constraints on dark matter particle properties. In particular for leptonic annihilation final states and particle masses greater than ~200 GeV, gamma-ray emission from inverse Compton scattering of CMB photons is expected to dominate the dark matter annihilation signal from clusters, and our gamma-ray limits exclude large regions of the parameter space that would give a good fit to the recent anomalous Pamela and Fermi-LAT electron-positron measurements. We also present constraints on the annihilation of more standard dark matter candidates, such as the lightest neutralino of supersymmetric models. The constraints are particularly strong when including the fact that clusters are known to contain substructure at least on galaxy scales, increasing the expected gamma-ray flux by a factor of ~5 over a smooth-halo assumption. We also explore the effect of uncertainties in cluster dark matter density profiles, finding a systematic uncertainty in the constraints of roughly a factor of two, but similar overall conclusions. In this work, we focus on deriving limits on dark matter models; a more general consideration of the Fermi-LAT data on clusters and clusters as gamma-ray sources is forthcoming.

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Title: Constraints on Dark Matter Annihilation in Clusters of Galaxies with the Fermi Large Area Telescope
Creators - without role: Markus Ackermann - Stanford University
Marco Ajello - Stanford University
A. Allafort - Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology
Luca Baldini - Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Pisa
Jean Ballet - Astrophysique, Instrumentation et Modélisation
Guido Barbiellini - University of Trieste
D. Bastieri - University of Padua
K. Bechtol - Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology
R. Bellazzini - Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Pisa
R.D. Blandford - Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology
E.D. Bloom - Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology
E. Bonamente - University of Perugia
A.W. Borgland - Stanford University
A. Bouvier - Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology
T.J. Brandt - The Ohio State University
J. Bregeon - Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Pisa
M. Brigida - Polytechnic University of Bari
Pascal Bruel - École Polytechnique
R. Buehler - Stanford University
S. Buson - INFN Sezione di Padova
G.A. Caliandro - Institute of Space Sciences
R.A. Cameron - Stanford University
P. A. Caraveo - Istituto di Astrofisica Spaziale e Fisica Cosmica di Milano
S. Carrigan - University of Padua
J.M. Casandjian - Université Paris Cité
C. Cecchi - University of Perugia
E. Charles - Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology
A. Chekhtman - George Mason University
C.C. Cheung - United States Naval Research Laboratory
J. Chiang - SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
S. Ciprini - University of Perugia
R. Claus - Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology
J. Cohen-Tanugi - Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules
L.R. Cominsky - Sonoma State University
J. Conrad - Stockholm University
A. de Angelis - Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Trieste
F. de Palma - Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Bari
E. Do Couto E Silva
P.S. Drell - Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology
A. Drlica-Wagner - SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
R. Dubois - SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
D. Dumora - Laboratoire de Physique des deux infinis Bordeaux
Y. Edmonds - Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology
C. Farnier - Laboratoire de Physique Théorique
C. Favuzzi - Polytechnic University of Bari
S.J. Fegan - Laboratoire Leprince-Ringuet
M. Frailis - Trieste Astronomical Observatory
Y. Fukazawa - Hiroshima University
P. Fusco - Polytechnic University of Bari
F. Gargano - Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Bari
D. Gasparrini - Agenzia Spaziale Italiana
N. Gehrels - Goddard Space Flight Center
S. Germani - University of Perugia
N. Giglietto - Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Bari
F. Giordano - Polytechnic University of Bari
T. Glanzman - Stanford University
G. Godfrey - Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology
I.A. Grenier - CEA Paris-Saclay
S. Guiriec - University of Alabama in Huntsville
M. Gustafsson - Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Padova
A.K. Harding - Goddard Space Flight Center
M. Hayashida - Stanford University
D. Horan - Laboratoire Leprince-Ringuet
R.E. Hughes - The Ohio State University
T.E. Jeltema - University of California, Santa Cruz
G. Jóhannesson - SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
A. S. Johnson
W.N. Johnson - United States Naval Research Laboratory
T. Kamae - SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
H. Katagiri - Hiroshima University
J. Kataoka - Waseda University
Jürgen Knödlseder - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
M. Kuss - Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Pisa
J. Lande - Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology
L. Latronico - Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Pisa
S.-H. Lee - Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology
M. Llena Garde
F. Longo - Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Trieste
F. Loparco - Polytechnic University of Bari
M.N. Lovellette - United States Naval Research Laboratory
P. Lubrano - University of Perugia
G.M. Madejski - Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology
A. Makeev - United States Naval Research Laboratory
M.N. Mazziotta - Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Bari
P.F. Michelson - Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology
W. Mitthumsiri - Stanford University
T. Mizuno - Hiroshima University
A.A. Moiseev - University of Maryland, College Park
C. Monte - Polytechnic University of Bari
M.E. Monzani - Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology
A. Morselli - Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Roma Tor Vergata
I.V. Moskalenko - Stanford University
S. Murgia - Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology
P.L. Nolan - Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology
J.P. Norris - University of Denver
E. Nuss - Laboratoire de Physique Théorique
M. Ohno - Institute of Space and Astronautical Science
T. Ohsugi - Hiroshima University
N. Omodei - Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology
E. Orlando - Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics
J.F. Ormes - University of Denver
J.H. Panetta - Stanford University
M. Pepe - University of Perugia
M. Pesce-Rollins - Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Pisa
F. Piron - Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules
T.A. Porter - Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology
S. Profumo - University of California, Santa Cruz
S. Rainò - Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Bari
M. Razzano - Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Pisa
T. Reposeur - Laboratoire de Physique des deux infinis Bordeaux
S. Ritz - University of California, Santa Cruz
A.Y. Rodriguez - Institute of Space Sciences
M. Roth - University of Washington
H.F.-W. Sadrozinski - University of California, Santa Cruz
A. Sander - The Ohio State University
J.D. Scargle - Ames Research Center
C. Sgrò - Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Pisa
E.J. Siskind - Real Time Tomography
P.D. Smith - The Ohio State University
G. Spandre - Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Pisa
P. Spinelli - Polytechnic University of Bari
Jean-Luc Starck - Astrophysique Interprétation Modélisation
M.S. Strickman - United States Naval Research Laboratory
D.J. Suson - Purdue University Northwest
H. Takahashi - Hiroshima University
T. Tanaka - Stanford University
J.B. Thayer - Stanford University
J.G. Thayer - Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology
L. Tibaldo - Université Paris Cité
D.F. Torres - Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats
G. Tosti - University of Perugia
T.L. Usher - Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology
V. Vasileiou - Goddard Space Flight Center
V. Vitale - University of Rome Tor Vergata
A.P. Waite - Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology
P. Wang - Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology
B.L. Winer - The Ohio State University
K.S. Wood - United States Naval Research Laboratory
Z. Yang - AlbaNova
T. Ylinen - Fraunhofer Chalmers Research Centre for Industrial Mathematics
M. Ziegle
Publication Details: Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics
Identifiers: 9938335409311
Academic Unit: Université de Montpellier
Language: English
Resource Type: Journal article
Local Fields: in2p3-00528694