Constraining Annihilating Dark Matter by the Radio Continuum Spectrum of the Large Magellanic Cloud

Abstract

Abstract Recent radio observations have obtained stringent constraints for annihilating dark matter. In this article, we use the radio continuum spectral data of the Large Magellanic Cloud to analyze the dark matter annihilation signals. We have discovered a slightly positive signal of dark matter annihilation with a 1.5σ statistical significance. The overall best-fit dark matter mass is m DM ≈ 90 GeV, annihilating via the b b ¯ channel. We have also constrained the 3σ lower limits of dark matter mass with the standard thermal dark matter annihilation cross section for the e + e −, μ + μ −, τ + τ −, and b b ¯ channels.