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Cross-correlation of weak lensing and gamma rays: implications for the nature of dark matter

Tröster, T, Camera, S, Fornasa, M, Regis, M, van Waerbeke, L, Harnois-Déraps, J, Ando, S, Bilicki, M, Erben, T, Fornengo, N, Heymans, C, Hildebrandt, H, Hoekstra, H, Kuijken, K and Viola, M (2017) Cross-correlation of weak lensing and gamma rays: implications for the nature of dark matter. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 467 (3). pp. 2706-2722. ISSN 0035-8711

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Abstract

We measure the cross-correlation between Fermi gamma-ray photons and over 1000 deg2 of weak lensing data from the Canada–France–Hawaii Telescope Lensing Survey (CFHTLenS), the Red Cluster Sequence Lensing Survey (RCSLenS), and the Kilo Degree Survey (KiDS). We present the first measurement of tomographic weak lensing cross-correlations and the first application of spectral binning to cross-correlations between gamma rays and weak lensing. The measurements are performed using an angular power spectrum estimator while the covariance is estimated using an analytical prescription. We verify the accuracy of our covariance estimate by comparing it to two internal covariance estimators. Based on the non-detection of a cross-correlation signal, we derive constraints on weakly interacting massive particle (WIMP) dark matter. We compute exclusion limits on the dark matter annihilation cross-section 〈σannv〉, decay rate Γdec and particle mass mDM. We find that in the absence of a cross-correlation signal, tomography does not significantly improve the constraining power of the analysis. Assuming a strong contribution to the gamma-ray flux due to small-scale clustering of dark matter and accounting for known astrophysical sources of gamma rays, we exclude the thermal relic cross-section for particle masses of mDM ≲ 20 GeV.

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Additional Information: This article has been accepted for publication in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society ©: 2017 The Authors Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Royal Astronomical Society. All rights reserved.
Uncontrolled Keywords: 0201 Astronomical and Space Sciences
Subjects: Q Science > QB Astronomy
Q Science > QC Physics
Divisions: Astrophysics Research Institute
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Date Deposited: 23 Jul 2020 11:21
Last Modified: 04 Sep 2021 06:57
DOI or ID number: 10.1093/mnras/stx365
URI: https://researchonline.ljmu.ac.uk/id/eprint/13354
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