RT Journal Article
T1 Searches for dark matter annihilation signatures in the Segue 1 satellite galaxy with the MAGIC-I telescope
A1 Antoranz Canales, Pedro
A1 Barrio Uña, Juan Abel
A1 Contreras González, José Luis
A1 Fonseca González, María Victoria
A1 López Moya, Marcos
A1 Miranda Pantoja, José Miguel
A1 Scapin, Valeria
AB We report the results of the observation of the nearly satellite galaxy Segue 1 performed by the MAGIC-I ground-based gamma-ray telescope between November 2008 and March 2009 for a total of 43.2 hours. No significant gamma-ray emission was found above the bmkground. Differential upper limits on the grimma-ray flux are derived assuming various power-law slopes for the possible emission spectrum. Integral upper limits are also calculated for several power-law spectra and for different energy thresholds. The values are of the order of 10(-11) ph cm(-2) s(-1) above 100 GeV and 10(-12) ph cm(-2) s(-1) above 200 GeV. Segue 1 is currently considered one of the most interesting targets for indirect dark matter searches. In these terms, the upper limits have been also interpreted in the context of annihilating dark matter particles. For such purpose, we performed a grid scan over a reasonable portion of the parameter space for the minimal SuperGravity model and computed the flux upper limit for each point separately, taking fully into account the peculiar spectral features of each model. We found that in order to match the experimental upper limits with the model predictions, a minimum flux boost of 10(3) is required, and that the upper limits are quite dependent on the shape of the gamma-ray energy spectrum predicted by each specific model. Finally we compared the upper limits with the predictions of some dark matter models able to explain the PAMELA rise in the positron ratio, finding that Segue 1 data are in tension with the dark matter explanation of the PAMELA spectrum in the case of a dark matter candidate annihilating into tau(+)tau(-). A complete exclusion however is not possible due to the uncertainties in the Segue 1 astrophysical factor.
PB Iop Publishing Ltd
SN 1475-7516
YR 2011
FD 2011-06
LK https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/43891
UL https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/43891
LA eng
NO © 2011 IOP Publishing Ltd and SISSA. We would like to thank the Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias for the excellent working conditions at the Observatorio del Roque de los Muchachos in La Palma. The support of the German BMBF and MPG, the Italian INFN, the Swiss National Fund SNF, and the Spanish MICINN is gratefully acknowledged. This work was also supported by the Marie Curie program, by the CPAN CSD2007-00042 and MultiDark CSD2009-00064 projects of the Spanish Consolider-Ingenio 2010 programme, by grant DO02-353 of the Bulgarian NSF, by grant 127740 of the Academy of Finland, by the YIP of the Helmholtz Gemeinschaft, by the DFG Cluster of Excellence "Origin and Structure of the Universe", and by the Polish MNiSzW grant 745/N-HESS-MAGIC/2010/0.
NO German BMBF
NO German MPG
NO Italian INFN
NO Swiss National Fund SNF
NO Spanish MICINN
NO Marie Curie program
NO Spanish Consolider-Ingenio 2010 programme
NO Bulgarian NSF
NO Academy of Finland
NO YIP of the Helmholtz Gemeinschaft
NO DFG
NO Polish MNiSzW
DS Docta Complutense
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