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透镜星系团Abell 3827中的光/质量偏移:碰撞暗物质的证据?

Light/Mass Offsets in the Lensing Cluster Abell 3827: Evidence for Collisional Dark Matter?

Liliya L. R. Williams, Prasenjit Saha

摘要:

如果暗物质具有非零的自相互作用截面,那么星系团核心中的单个星系的暗物质晕应该受到来自星系团周围暗物质的拖曳力,这不会影响星系的恒星成分,从而导致恒星和暗物质之间的分离。如果横截面仅比目前天体物理学确定的上限低几十年,那么就会产生kpc尺度的分离。然而,这种分离只有在非常有利的条件下才能观察到。Abell 3827是一个邻近的晚期星系团合并,有四个巨大的中央椭圆星系,彼此相距不到20千秒差距。十个强透镜图像紧紧围绕椭圆提供了一个很好的约束,自由形式的镜头重建。我们的自由形式质量图显示了一个巨大的黑暗扩展团块,距离其中一个椭圆星系约6千秒差距。这一结果的鲁棒性已经过多次重建测试,并通过使用合成透镜质量分布的实验得到证实。用暗物质碰撞性来解释,我们的结果得到σ/m ~ 4.5 × 10^{-7}(t/10^{10} yr)^{-2} cm ^2/g,其中t是合并的年龄。

英文摘要:

If dark matter has a non-zero self-interaction cross-section, then dark matter halos of individual galaxies in cluster cores should experience a drag force from the ambient dark matter of the cluster, which will not affect the stellar components of galaxies, and thus will lead to a separation between the stellar and dark matter. If the cross-section is only a few decades below its current astrophysically determined upper limit, then kpc-scale separations should result. However, such separations will be observable only under very favorable conditions. Abell 3827 is a nearby late stage cluster merger with four massive central ellipticals within 20 kpc of each other. The ten strong lensing images tightly surrounding the ellipticals provide an excellent set of constraints for a free-form lens reconstruction. Our free-form mass maps show a massive dark extended clump, about 6 kpc from one of the ellipticals. The robustness of this result has been tested with many reconstructions, and confirmed with experiments using synthetic lens mass distributions. Interpreted in terms of dark matter collisionality, our result yields sigma/m ~ 4.5 10^{-7} (t/10^{10} yr)^{-2} cm^2/g, where t is the merger's age.

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