Planck Lensing and Cosmic Infrared Background Cross-Correlation with Fermi-LAT: Tracing Dark Matter Signals in the Gamma-Ray Background

Abstract

The extragalactic $\gamma$-ray background and its spatial anisotropy could potentially contain a signature of dark matter (DM) annihilation or particle decay. Astrophysical foregrounds, such as blazars and star-forming galaxies (SFGs), however, dominate the $\gamma$-ray background, precluding an easy detection of the signal associated with the DM annihilation or decay in the background intensity spectrum. The DM imprint on the $\gamma$-ray background is expected to be correlated with large-scale structure tracers. In some cases, such a cross-correlation is even expected to have a higher signal-to-noise ratio than the auto-correlation. One reliable tracer of the DM distribution in the large-scale structure is lensing of the cosmic microwave background (CMB), and the cosmic infrared background (CIB) is a reliable tracer of SFGs. We analyze Fermi-LAT data taken over 92 months and study the cross-correlation with Planck CMB lensing, Planck CIB, and Fermi-$\gamma$ maps. We put upper limits on the DM annihilation cross-section from the cross-power spectra with the $\gamma$-ray background anisotropies. The unbiased power spectrum estimation is validated with simulations that include cross-correlated signals. We also provide a set of systematic tests and show that no significant contaminations are found for the measurements presented here. Using $\gamma$-ray background map from data gathered over 92 months, we find the best constraint on the DM annihilation with a $1\sigma$ confidence level upper limit of $10^{-25}$-$10^{-24}$ cm${}^3$ s${}^{-1}$, when the mass of DM particles is between 20 and 100 GeV.

14 pages, 16 figures. Version accepted for publication in ApJ

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