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Black Holes, Dark Matter Spikes, and Constraints on Simplified Models with $t$-Channel Mediators

Pearl Sandick·Kuver Sinha·Takahiro Yamamoto
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The density spike of dark matter (DM) in the subparsec region near the supermassive black hole at the Galactic Center can provide potentially observable gamma-ray signals coming from DM annihilations. Taking Fermi-$LAT$ data for the gamma-ray flux from the point source 3FGL J1745.6-2859c (Sgr A*), we calculate the resulting constraints on generic models of DM, allowing for the possibility of a non-negligible velocity-dependent component of the annihilation cross section. We consider a variety of selections for the astrophysical parameters that describe the spike profile and find that the gamma-ray flux is strongly dependent on these selections, particularly the modelling of spike depletion effects due to gravitational interactions with baryons, which affect the spike radius and steepness profile. We calculate constraints on the DM parameter space for both attenuated and idealized spikes, considering different choices for the steepness profiles in each case. We find that for the most conservative selection of parameters, corresponding to a depleted spike with an NFW cusp profile, the gamma-ray flux for a 100 GeV thermal relic is lower than current observational constraints by several orders of magnitude. For more optimistic choices of parameters corresponding to spikes that have not been attenuated, bounds on DM masses can be obtained for a variety of choices of steepness profiles. We then specialize to a class of simplified models of fermionic DM that annihilate dominantly through the $t-$channel exchange of two scalar mediators with arbitrary mixing angle $\alpha$, and calculate the indirect detection constraints coming from the DM spike. Along the way, we discuss constraints on the astrophysical parameters describing the DM spike, taking the Galactic Center excess as a signal of DM annihilation.

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Pearl Sandick, Kuver Sinha, Takahiro Yamamoto. 2016-12-31. Black Holes, Dark Matter Spikes, and Constraints on Simplified Models with $t$-Channel Mediators. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevd.98.035004

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