Constraints on light decaying dark matter candidates from 16 years of INTEGRAL/SPI observations

Autor: Calore, Francesca, Dekker, Ariane, Serpico, Pasquale Dario, Siegert, Thomas
Rok vydání: 2022
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Zdroj: Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc. 520 (2023) 3, 4167-4172
Druh dokumentu: Working Paper
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stad457
Popis: We apply the recently developed analysis of 16 years of INTEGRAL/SPI data including a dark matter spatial template to derive bounds on dark matter candidates lighter than WIMPs (like sterile neutrinos or axion-like particles) decaying into line or continuum electromagnetic final state channels. The bounds obtained are the strongest to date for dark matter masses between $\sim $60 keV and $\sim$16 MeV experiencing two-body decays producing photon lines.
Comment: 6 pages, 5 figures. Version accepted for publication in MNRAS. Code and supplementary material available at https://zenodo.org/record/7984451
Databáze: arXiv