Constraining Light Dark Matter with Diffuse X-Ray and Gamma-Ray
  Observations
  We present constraints on decaying and annihilating dark matter (DM) in the 4
keV to 10 GeV mass range, using published results from the satellites HEAO-1,
INTEGRAL, COMPTEL, EGRET, and the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope. We derive
analytic expressions for the gamma-ray spectra from various DM decay modes, and
find lifetime constraints in the range 10^24-10^28 sec, depending on the DM
mass and decay mode. We map these constraints onto the parameter space for a
variety of models, including a hidden photino that is part of a kinetically
mixed hidden sector, a gravitino with R-parity violating decays, a sterile
neutrino, DM with a dipole moment, and a dark pion. The indirect constraints on
sterile-neutrino and hidden-photino DM are found to be more powerful than other
experimental or astrophysical probes in some parts of parameter space. While
our focus is on decaying DM, we also present constraints on DM annihilation to
electron-positron pairs. We find that if the annihilation is p-wave suppressed,
the galactic diffuse constraints are, depending on the DM mass and velocity at
recombination, more powerful than the constraints from the Cosmic Microwave
Background.
