Bremsstrahlung gamma rays from light Dark Matter
  We discuss the often-neglected role of bremsstrahlung processes on the
interstellar gas in computing indirect signatures of Dark Matter (DM)
annihilation in the Galaxy, particularly for light DM candidates in the
phenomenologically interesting O(10) GeV mass range. Especially from directions
close to the Galactic Plane, the expected gamma-ray spectrum is altered via two
effects: directly, by the photons emitted in the bremsstrahlung process on the
interstellar gas by energetic electrons which are among the DM annihilation
byproducts; indirectly, by the modification of the same electron spectrum, due
to the additional energy loss process in the diffusion-loss equation (e.g. the
resulting inverse Compton emission is altered). We quantify the importance of
the bremsstrahlung emission in the GeV energy range, showing that it is the
dominant component of the gamma-ray spectrum for some cases. We also find that,
in regions in which bremsstrahlung dominates energy losses, the related
gamma-ray emission is only moderately sensitive to possible large variations in
the gas density. Still, we stress that, for computing precise spectra in the
(sub-)GeV range, it is important to obtain a reliable description of the inner
Galaxy gas distribution as well as to compute self-consistently the gamma
emission and the solution to the diffusion-loss equation. For example, these
are crucial issues to quantify and interpret meaningfully gamma-ray map
`residuals' in terms of (light) DM annihilations.
