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Checking the Dark Matter Origin of a 3.53 keV Line with the Milky Way Center

A. Boyarsky, J. Franse, D. Iakubovskyi, and O. Ruchayskiy
Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 161301 – Published 14 October 2015
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Abstract

We detect a line at 3.539±0.011keV in the deep exposure data set of the Galactic center region, observed with the x-ray multi-mirror mission Newton. The dark matter interpretation of the signal observed in the Perseus galaxy cluster, the Andromeda galaxy [A. Boyarsky et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 251301 (2014)], and in the stacked spectra of galaxy clusters [E. Bulbul et al., Astrophys. J. 789, 13 (2014)], together with nonobservation of the line in blank-sky data, put both lower and upper limits on the possible intensity of the line in the Galactic center data. Our result is consistent with these constraints for a class of Milky Way mass models, presented previously by observers, and would correspond to the radiative decay dark matter lifetime, τDM68×1027sec. Although it is hard to exclude an astrophysical origin of this line based on the Galactic center data alone, this is an important consistency check of the hypothesis that encourages us to check it with more observational data that are expected by the end of 2015.

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  • Received 10 September 2014

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.115.161301

© 2015 American Physical Society

Physics Subject Headings (PhySH)

Particles & FieldsGravitation, Cosmology & Astrophysics

Authors & Affiliations

A. Boyarsky1, J. Franse1,2, D. Iakubovskyi3, and O. Ruchayskiy4

  • 1Instituut-Lorentz for Theoretical Physics, Universiteit Leiden, Niels Bohrweg 2, Leiden, The Netherlands
  • 2Leiden Observatory, Leiden University, Niels Bohrweg 2, Leiden, The Netherlands
  • 3Bogolyubov Institute of Theoretical Physics, Metrologichna Street 14-b, 03680 Kyiv, Ukraine
  • 4Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, FSB/ITP/LPPC, BSP, CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland

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Vol. 115, Iss. 16 — 16 October 2015

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