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合并中星系团1 E 0657-5暗物质自相互作用截面的限制

Constraints on the Self-Interaction Cross-Section of Dark Matter from Numerical Simulations of the Merging Galaxy Cluster 1E 0657-5

Scott W. Randall, Maxim Markevitch, Douglas Clowe, Anthony H. Gonzalez, Marusa Bradac

摘要:

我们比较了最近的X射线,强透镜,弱透镜和光学观测的结果与合并星系团1 E0657 -56的数值模拟。X射线观测揭示了一个具有突出弓形激波的子弹状子星系团,而透镜结果显示总质量峰的位置与无碰撞星系的质心一致(与X射线亮度峰不一致)。以前的研究,基于较旧的观测数据集,已经把上限的自我相互作用截面的暗物质每单位质量,西格玛/米,使用简化的分析技术。在这项工作中,我们利用新的,更高质量的观测数据集,通过运行N体模拟1 E0657 -56,包括自相互作用的暗物质的影响,并将结果与观测结果进行比较。此外,最近的数据允许一个新的独立的方法约束西格玛/米,基于子弹子集群质量峰值和星系质心之间的偏移量的非观测。这种新方法的上限(68%置信度)为sigma/m < 1.25 cm^2/g。如果我们假设子星系团和主星系团在合并之前具有相等的质光比,我们得出最严格的限制条件sigma/m < 0.7 cm^2/g,这是因为子星系团的观测质光比与主星系团的一致性,并且与普遍的星系团值一致,排除了大部分暗物质粒子由于碰撞而散射的可能性。我们的极限比以前的分析估计结果略有改进,并且排除了用来解释标准无碰撞冷暗物质模型和观测之间不一致的0.5 - 5 cm ^2/g范围的大部分。

英文摘要:

(Abridged) We compare recent results from X-ray, strong lensing, weak lensing, and optical observations with numerical simulations of the merging galaxy cluster 1E0657-56. X-ray observations reveal a bullet-like subcluster with a prominent bow shock, while lensing results show that the positions of the total mass peaks are consistent with the centroids of the collisionless galaxies (and inconsistent with the X-ray brightness peaks). Previous studies, based on older observational datasets, have placed upper limits on the self-interaction cross-section of dark matter per unit mass, sigma/m, using simplified analytic techniques. In this work, we take advantage of new, higher-quality observational datasets by running N-body simulations of 1E0657-56 that include the effects of self-interacting dark matter, and comparing the results with observations. Furthermore, the recent data allow for a new independent method of constraining sigma/m, based on the non-observation of an offset between the bullet subcluster mass peak and galaxy centroid. This new method places an upper limit (68% confidence) of sigma/m < 1.25 cm^2/g. If we make the assumption that the subcluster and the main cluster had equal mass-to-light ratios prior to the merger, we derive our most stringent constraint of sigma/m < 0.7 cm^2/g, which comes from the consistency of the subcluster's observed mass-to-light ratio with the main cluster's, and with the universal cluster value, ruling out the possibility of a large fraction of dark matter particles being scattered away due to collisions. Our limit is a slight improvement over the previous result from analytic estimates, and rules out most of the 0.5 - 5cm^2/g range invoked to explain inconsistencies between the standard collisionless cold dark matter model and observations.

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