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

Boyarsky, A.
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Franse, J.
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Iakubovskyi, D.
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2015
Physical Review Letters

We detect a line at 3.539 +/- 0.011 keV 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, tau(DM) similar to 6 - 8 x 10(27) sec. 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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DOI
10.1103/PhysRevLett.115.161301
Web of Science ID

WOS:000362908300001

Author(s)
Boyarsky, A.
Franse, J.
Iakubovskyi, D.
Ruchayskiy, O.  
Date Issued

2015

Publisher

Amer Physical Soc

Published in
Physical Review Letters
Volume

115

Issue

16

Article Number

161301

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REVIEWED

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December 2, 2015
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