Possibility of a dark matter interpretation for the excess in isotropic radio emission reported by ARCADE

Phys Rev Lett. 2011 Dec 30;107(27):271302. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.107.271302. Epub 2011 Dec 29.

Abstract

The ARCADE 2 Collaboration has recently measured an isotropic radio emission which is significantly brighter than the expected contributions from known extra-galactic sources. The simplest explanation of such excess involves a "new" population of unresolved sources which become the most numerous at very low (observationally unreached) brightness. We investigate this scenario in terms of synchrotron radiation induced by weakly interacting massive particle (WIMP) annihilations or decays in extra-galactic halos. Intriguingly, for light-mass WIMPs with a thermal annihilation cross section, the level of expected radio emission matches the ARCADE observations.