Searching for decaying and annihilating dark matter with line intensity mapping

Cyril Creque-Sarbinowski and Marc Kamionkowski
Phys. Rev. D 98, 063524 – Published 20 September 2018

Abstract

The purpose of line-intensity mapping (IM), an emerging tool for extragalactic astronomy and cosmology, is to measure the integrated emission along the line of sight from spectral lines emitted from galaxies and the intergalactic medium. The observed frequency of the line then provides a distance determination allowing the three-dimensional distribution of the emitters to be mapped. Here we discuss the possibility to use these measurements to seek monoenergetic photons from dark-matter decay or possibly annihilation. The photons from decays or annihilations (should such lines arise) will be correlated with the mass distribution, which can be determined from galaxy surveys, weak-lensing surveys, or the IM mapping experiments themselves. We discuss how to seek this cross-correlation and then estimate the sensitivity of various IM experiments in the dark-matter mass-lifetime parameter space. We find prospects for improvements of nine orders of magnitude in sensitivity to decaying/annihilating dark matter in the frequency bands targeted for IM experiments.

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  • Received 2 July 2018

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.98.063524

© 2018 American Physical Society

Physics Subject Headings (PhySH)

Gravitation, Cosmology & Astrophysics

Authors & Affiliations

Cyril Creque-Sarbinowski* and Marc Kamionkowski

  • Department of Physics and Astronomy, Johns Hopkins University, 3400 N. Charles Street, Baltimore, Maryland 21218, USA

  • *creque@jhu.edu
  • kamion@jhu.edu

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Vol. 98, Iss. 6 — 15 September 2018

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