Monday 29 March, 2:30 pm, Curia II
Edward Baltz (KIPAC, Stanford)
@: eabaltz AT SLAC.Stanford.EDU
Diffuse emission from annihilations in galactic satellites

Annihilating dark matter particles produce roughly as much power in
electrons and positrons as in gamma ray photons.  The charged particles
lose essentially all of their energy to inverse Compton and synchrotron
processes in the galactic environment.  We discuss the diffuse signature
of dark matter annihilations in satellites of the Milky Way (which may
be optically dark with few or no stars), providing a tail of emission
trailing the satellite in its orbit.  Inverse Compton processes provide
X-rays and gamma rays, and synchrotron emission at radio wavelengths
might be seen.  We discuss the possibility of detecting these signals
with current and future observations, in particular EGRET and GLAST for
the gamma rays.