The spatial distribution of dark-matter-annihilation originated gamma-ray line signal
Abstract
The GeV-TeV γ-ray line signal is the smoking gun signature of the dark matter annihilation or decay. The detection of such a signal is one of the main targets of some space-based telescopes, including Fermi-LAT and the upcoming CALET, DAMPE and Gamma-400. An important feature of the dark-matter-annihilation originated γ-ray line photons is their concentration at the center of the Galaxy. So far no reliable γ-ray line has been detected by Fermi-LAT and the upper limits on the cross section of annihilation into γ-rays have been reported. We use these upper limits to estimate the "maximal" number of γ-ray line photons detectable for Fermi-LAT, DAMPE and Gamma-400 and then investigate the spatial distribution of these photons. We show that usually the center of the distribution region will be offset from the Galactic centre (Sgr A) due to the limited statistics. Such a result is almost independent of the dark matter distribution models and renders the reconstruction of the dark matter distribution with the γ-ray line signal very challenging for the foreseeable space-based detectors.
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