Published November 11, 2011 | Version v1
Journal article

A comment on the emission from the Galactic Center as seen by the Fermi telescope

  • 1. Bogolyubov Institute for Theoretical Physics, Metrologichna str., 14-b, Kiev 03680 (Ukraine)
  • 2. Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, FSB/ITP/LPPC, BSP CH-1015, Lausanne (Switzerland)
  • 3. Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, Astronomy and Astrophysics Section, 31 Fitzwilliam Place, Dublin 2 (Ireland)
  • 4. CERN TH-Division, PH-TH, Case C01600, CERN, CH-1211 Geneva 23 (Switzerland)

Description

In the recent paper of Hooper and Goodenough (2010) it was reported that γ-ray emission from the Galactic Center region contains an excess compared to the contributions from the large-scale diffuse emission and known point sources. This excess was argued to be consistent with a signal from annihilation of Dark Matter with a power law density profile. We reanalyze the Fermi data and find instead that it is consistent with the "standard model" of diffuse emission and of known point sources. The main reason for the discrepancy with the interpretation of Hooper and Goodenough (2010) is different (as compared to the previous works) spectrum of the point source at the Galactic Center assumed by Hooper and Goodenough (2010) . We discuss possible reasons for such an interpretation.

Availability note (English)

Available from http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.physletb.2011.10.014

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Identifiers

DOI
10.1016/j.physletb.2011.10.014;
arXiv
arXiv:1012.5839v1;
PII
S0370-2693(11)01246-9;

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Physics Letters. Section B
Journal Volume
705
Journal Issue
3
Journal Page Range
p. 165-169
ISSN
0370-2693
CODEN
PYLBAJ

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