A search for dark matter in Triangulum II with the MAGIC telescopes
Creators: name: MAGIC Collaboration
name: Acciari, V. A.
name: Ansoldi, S.
name: Antonelli, L. A.
name: Engels, A. Arbet
name: Baack, D.
name: Babić, A.
name: Banerjee, B.
name: de Almeida, U. Barres
name: Barrio, J. A.
name: González, J. Becerra
name: Bednarek, W.
name: Bellizzi, L.
name: Bernardini, E.
name: Berti, A.
name: Besenrieder, J.
name: Bhattacharyya, W.
name: Bigongiari, C.
name: Biland, A.
name: Blanch, O.
name: Bonnoli, G.
name: Bošnjak, Ž.
name: Busetto, G.
name: Carosi, R.
name: Ceribella, G.
name: Chai, Y.
name: Chilingarian, A.
name: Cikota, S.
name: Colak, S. M.
name: Colin, U.
name: Colombo, E.
name: Contreras, J. L.
name: Cortina, J.
name: Covino, S.
name: D'Elia, V.
name: Da Vela, P.
name: Dazzi, F.
name: De Angelis, A.
name: De Lotto, B.
name: Delfino, M.
name: Delgado, J.
name: Depaoli, D.
name: Di Pierro, F.
name: Di Venere, L.
name: Espiñeira, E. Do Souto
name: Prester, D. Dominis
name: Donini, A.
name: Dorner, D.
name: Doro, M.
name: Elsaesser, D.
name: Ramazani, V. Fallah
name: Fattorini, A.
name: Ferrara, G.
name: Fidalgo, D.
name: Foffano, L.
name: Fonseca, M. V.
name: Font, L.
name: Fruck, C.
name: Fukami, S.
name: López, R. J. García
name: Garczarczyk, M.
name: Gasparyan, S.
name: Gaug, M.
name: Giglietto, N.
name: Giordano, F.
name: Gliwny, P.
name: Godinović, N.
name: Green, D.
name: Green, J. G.
name: Guberman, D.
name: Hadasch, D.
name: Hahn, A.
name: Herrera, J.
name: Hoang, J.
name: Hrupec, D.
name: Hütten, M.
name: Inada, T.
name: Inoue, S.
name: Ishio, K.
name: Iwamura, Y.
name: Jouvin, L.
name: Kerszberg, D.
name: Kubo, H.
name: Kushida, J.
name: Lamastra, A.
name: Lelas, D.
name: Leone, F.
name: Lindfors, E.
name: Lombardi, S.
name: Longo, F.
name: López, M.
name: López-Coto, R.
name: López-Oramas, A.
name: Loporchio, S.
name: Fraga, B. Machado de Oliveira
name: Maggio, C.
name: Majumdar, P.
name: Makariev, M.
name: Mallamaci, M.
name: Maneva, G.
name: Manganaro, M.
name: Mannheim, K.
name: Maraschi, L.
name: Mariotti, M.
name: Martínez, M.
name: Mazin, D.
name: Mićanović, S.
name: Miceli, D.
name: Miener, T.
name: Minev, M.
name: Miranda, J. M.
name: Mirzoyan, R.
name: Molina, E.
name: Moralejo, A.
name: Morcuende, D.
name: Moreno, V.
name: Moretti, E.
name: Munar-Adrover, P.
name: Neustroev, V.
name: Nigro, C.
name: Nilsson, K.
name: Ninci, D.
name: Nishijima, K.
name: Noda, K.
name: Nogués, L.
name: Nozaki, S.
name: Paiano, S.
name: Palacio, J.
name: Palatiello, M.
name: Paneque, D.
name: Paoletti, R.
name: Paredes, J. M.
name: Peñil, P.
name: Peresano, M.
name: Persic, M.
name: Moroni, P. G. Prada
name: Prandini, E.
name: Puljak, I.
name: Rhode, W.
name: Ribó, M.
name: Rico, J.
name: Righi, C.
name: Rugliancich, A.
name: Saha, L.
name: Sahakyan, N.
name: Saito, T.
name: Sakurai, S.
name: Satalecka, K.
name: Saturni, F. G.
name: Schmidt, K.
name: Schweizer, T.
name: Sitarek, J.
name: Šnidarić, I.
name: Sobczynska, D.
name: Somero, A.
name: Stamerra, A.
name: Strom, D.
name: Suda, Y.
name: Surić, T.
name: Takahashi, M.
name: Tavecchio, F.
name: Temnikov, P.
name: Terzić, T.
name: Teshima, M.
name: Torres-Albà, N.
name: Tosti, L.
name: Vagelli, V.
name: van Scherpenberg, J.
name: Vanzo, G.
name: Acosta, M. Vazquez
name: Vigorito, C. F.
name: Vitale, V.
name: Vovk, I.
name: Will, M.
name: Zarić, D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present the first results from very-high-energy observations of the dwarf spheroidal satellite candidate Triangulum II with the MAGIC telescopes from 62.4 hours of good-quality data taken between August 2016 and August 2017. We find no gamma-ray excess in the direction of Triangulum II, and upper limits on both the differential and integral gamma-ray flux are presented. Currently, the kinematics of Triangulum II are affected by large uncertainties leading to a bias in the determination of the properties of its dark matter halo. Using a scaling relation between the annihilation J-factor and heliocentric distance of well-known dwarf spheroidal galaxies, we estimate an annihilation J-factor for Triangulum II for WIMP dark matter of $\log[J_{\text{ann}}({0.5^{\circ}})/$ GeV$^{2}$ cm$^{-5}] = 19.35 \pm 0.37$. We also derive a dark matter density profile for the object relying on results from resolved simulations of Milky Way sized dark matter halos. We obtain 95% confidence-level limits on the thermally averaged annihilation cross section for WIMP annihilation into various Standard Model channels. The most stringent limits are obtained in the $τ^{+}τ^{-}$ final state, where a cross section for annihilation down to $\langle σ_{\text{ann}} v \rangle = 3.05 \times 10^{-24}$ cm$^{3}$ s$^{-1}$ is excluded.
description: 14 pages, 8 figures, accepted for publication in Physics of the Dark Universe