Published July 12, 2007 | Version v1
Journal article

GLAST and Dark Matter Substructure in the Milky Way

  • 1. School of Natural Science, Institute for Advanced Study, Einstein Lane, Princeton, NJ 08540 (United States)
  • 2. Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics, UC Santa Cruz, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA (United States)
  • 3. Max-Planck-Institut fuer Astrophysik Karl-Schwarzschild-Str. 1, 85740 Garching (Germany)

Description

We discuss the possibility of GLAST detecting gamma-rays from the annihilation of neutralino dark matter in the Galactic halo. We have used ''Via Lactea'', currently the highest resolution simulation of cold dark matter substructure, to quantify the contribution of subhalos to the annihilation signal. We present a simulated allsky map of the expected gamma-ray counts from dark matter annihilation, assuming standard values of particle mass and cross section. In this case GLAST should be able to detect the Galactic center and several individual subhalos

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Publishing Information

Journal Title
AIP Conference Proceedings
Journal Volume
921
Journal Issue
1
Journal Page Range
p. 135-138
ISSN
0094-243X
CODEN
APCPCS

Conference

Title
1. GLAST symposium
Dates
5-8 Feb 2007
Place
Stanford, CA (United States)

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(c) 2007 American Institute of Physics
Collaborations
Hubble Fellow