Indirect dark matter detection limits from the ultrafaint Milky Way satellite Segue 1

被引:60
作者
Essig, Rouven [1 ]
Sehgal, Neelima [2 ]
Strigari, Louis E. [2 ]
Geha, Marla [3 ]
Simon, Joshua D. [4 ]
机构
[1] Stanford Linear Accelerator Ctr, Natl Accelerator Lab, Stanford, CA 94309 USA
[2] Stanford Univ, Kavli Inst Particle Astrophys & Cosmol, Stanford, CA 94305 USA
[3] Yale Univ, Dept Astron, New Haven, CT 06520 USA
[4] Observ Carnegie Inst Washington, Pasadena, CA 91101 USA
来源
PHYSICAL REVIEW D | 2010年 / 82卷 / 12期
关键词
DWARF SPHEROIDAL GALAXIES; GAMMA-RAY EMISSION;
D O I
10.1103/PhysRevD.82.123503
中图分类号
P1 [天文学];
学科分类号
0704 ;
摘要
We use new kinematic data from the ultrafaint Milky Way satellite Segue 1 to model its dark matter distribution and derive upper limits on the dark matter annihilation cross section. Using gamma-ray flux upper limits from the Fermi satellite and MAGIC, we determine cross section exclusion regions for dark matter annihilation into a variety of different particles including charged leptons. We show that these exclusion regions are beginning to probe the regions of interest for a dark matter interpretation of the electron and positron fluxes from PAMELA, Fermi, and HESS, and that future observations of Segue 1 have strong prospects for testing such an interpretation. We additionally discuss prospects for detecting annihilation with neutrinos using the IceCube detector, finding that in an optimistic scenario a few neutrino events may be detected. Finally, we use the kinematic data to model the Segue 1 dark matter velocity dispersion and constrain Sommerfeld enhanced models.
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