http://arxiv.org/abs/1711.08323
Recent high-energy data from Fermi-LAT on the diffuse gamma-background (DGRB) have been used to set among the best constraints on annihilating TeV cold dark matter (DM) candidates. In order to assess the robustness of these limits, we revisit and update the calculation of the isotropic extragalactic gamma-ray intensity from DM annihilation. The emission from halos with masses $\geq10^{10}\,M_{\odot}$ provides a robust lower bound on the predicted intensity. The intensity including smaller halos whose properties are extrapolated from their higher mass counterparts is typically 5 times higher, and boost from subhalos yields an additional factor ~1.5. We also rank the uncertainties from all ingredients and provide a detailed error budget in table 1. Overall, our fiducial intensity is a factor 5 lower than the one derived by the Fermi-LAT collaboration for their latest analysis. This indicates that the limits set on extragalactic DM annihilations could be relaxed by the same factor. We also calculate the expected intensity for self-interacting dark matter (SIDM) in massive halos and find the emission reduced by a factor 3 compared to the collisionless counterpart. The next release of the CLUMPY code will provide all the tools necessary to reproduce and ease future improvements of this prediction.
M. Hutten, C. Combet and D. Maurin
Thu, 23 Nov 17
32/52
Comments: 21 pages + appendix, 10 figures