Significant impact of Galactic dark matter particles on annihilation signals from Sagittarius analogues

Vienneau, Evan; Evans, Addy J.; Hartl, Odelia V.; Bozorgnia, Nassim; Strigari, Louis E.; Riley, Alexander H.; Shipp, Nora

Abstract

We examine the gamma-ray signal from dark matter (DM) annihilation from analogues of the Sagittarius (Sgr) dwarf spheroidal galaxy in the Auriga cosmological simulations. For velocity-dependent annihilation cross sections, we compute emissions from simulated Sgr subhalos and from the Milky Way (MW) foreground. In addition to the annihilation signals from DM particles bound to Sgr, we consider for the first time the annihilation of DM particles bound to the MW that overlap spatially with Sgr. For p-wave models this contribution can enhance the signal by over an order of magnitude, while for d-wave models the enhancement can be over three orders of magnitude. For Sommerfeld and s-wave models, the corresponding emission does not significantly change. For the Sommerfeld model, the Sgr source can be visible above the MW foreground emission, while for s, p and d-wave models, the signal towards Sgr is most likely dominated by foreground MW emission. We interpret our results within the context of the observed gamma-ray emission from Sgr. We find that, given the background emission estimated from this region, the templates from simulations likely have spatial morphology that is too extended to explain the point-like emission that is observed.

Citation

Vienneau, E., Evans, A. J., Hartl, O. V., Bozorgnia, N., Strigari, L. E., Riley, A. H., & Shipp, N. (2024). Significant impact of Galactic dark matter particles on annihilation signals from Sagittarius analogues. Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, 2024(10), Article 019. https://doi.org/10.1088/1475-7516/2024/10/019

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Acceptance Date: Sep 17, 2024
• Online Publication Date: Oct 4, 2024
• Publication Date: Oct 1, 2024
• Deposit Date: Oct 25, 2024
• Publicly Available Date: Oct 25, 2024
• Journal: Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics
• Electronic ISSN: 1475-7516
• Publisher: IOP Publishing
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 2024
• Issue: 10
• Article Number: 019
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1088/1475-7516/2024/10/019
• Keywords: dark matter simulations, hydrodynamical simulations, dark matter theory, dwarfs galaxies
• Public URL: https://durham-repository.worktribe.com/output/2954870