# Dark matter electron anisotropy: A universal upper limit

@article{Borriello2012DarkME,
title={Dark matter electron anisotropy: A universal upper limit},
author={Enrico Borriello and Luca Maccione and Alessandro Cuoco},
journal={Astroparticle Physics},
year={2012},
volume={35},
pages={537-546}
}
• Published 2012
• Physics
• Astroparticle Physics
We study the dipole anisotropy in the arrival directions of high energy CR electrons and positrons (CRE) of dark matter (DM) origin. We show that this quantity is very weakly model dependent and offers a viable criterion to discriminate among CRE from DM or from local discrete sources, like e.g. pulsars. In particular, we find that the maximum anisotropy which DM can provide is to a very good approximation a universal quantity and, as a consequence, if a larger anisotropy is detected, this… Expand
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