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arxiv: 0802.2534 · v1 · pith:CRS5TVXXnew · submitted 2008-02-18 · 🌌 astro-ph

Dark matter accretion wakes of high-redshift black holes

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keywords blackholesdarkmatterapapsisbackgroundemissiongamma-ray
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Anisotropic emission of gravitational waves during the merger or formation of black holes can lead to the ejection of these black holes from their host galaxies. A recoiled black hole which moves on an almost radial bound orbit outside the virial radius of its central galaxy, in the cold dark matter background, reaches its apapsis in a finite time. The low value of dark matter velocity dispersion at high redshifts and also the black hole velocity near the apapsis passage yield a high-density wake around these black holes. Gamma-ray emission can result from the enhancement of dark matter annihilation in these wakes. The diffuse high-energy gamma-ray background from the ensemble of such black holes in the Hubble volume is also evaluated.

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