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矮球状星系3.55 keV谱线的叠加观测约束

Constraints on 3.55 keV line emission from stacked observations of dwarf spheroidal galaxies

D. Malyshev, A. Neronov, D. Eckert

摘要:

最近的几项工作报道了在3.55 keV处探测到一条未识别的X射线线,这可能归因于星系团晕和M31星系中暗物质(DM)粒子的衰变。我们分析了所有公开的XMM-牛顿数据的矮球状星系,以测试可能的DM起源的线。矮球状星系具有很高的质光比,而且它们的星际介质不是漫射X射线的发射源,因此它们有望提供最干净的DM衰变线信号。我们的分析表明,在矮星系的堆叠光谱中没有证据表明存在该线。它排除了Bulbul等人(2014)在4.1 sigma水平上报告的3.5 keV线的无菌中微子DM衰变起源,该水平是在选定矮星系方向上银河系DM柱密度的标准假设下,以及在3.2 sigma水平上假设银河系DM柱密度最小。我们的分析仍然与Boyarsky等人(2014)对无菌中微子DM参数的估计一致,因为它具有更大的不确定性。然而,他们估计的混合角的中心值与我们在3.4sigma(2.5sigma)水平假设的平均(最小)银河DM柱密度的矮椭球数据不一致。作为我们的分析的副产品,我们提供了更新的上限,在2和20千电子伏之间的质量范围内的无菌中微子DM的混合角。

英文摘要:

Several recent works have reported the detection of an unidentified X-ray line at 3.55~keV, which could possibly be attributed to the decay of dark matter (DM) particles in the halos of galaxy clusters and in the M31 galaxy. We analyze all publicly-available XMM-Newton data of dwarf spheroidal galaxies to test the possible DM origin of the line. Dwarf spheroidal galaxies have high mass-to-light ratios and their interstellar medium is not a source of diffuse X-ray emission, thus they are expected to provide the cleanest DM decay line signal. Our analysis shows no evidence for the presence of the line in the stacked spectra of the dwarf galaxies. It excludes the sterile neutrino DM decay origin of the 3.5 keV line reported by Bulbul et al. (2014) at the level of 4.1sigma under standard assumptions about the Galactic DM column density in the direction of selected dwarf galaxies and at the level of 3.2sigma assuming minimal Galactic DM column density. Our analysis is still consistent with the estimate of sterile neutrino DM parameters by Boyarsky et al. (2014), because of its larger uncertainty. However, the central value of their estimate of the mixing angle is inconsistent with our dwarf spheroidals data at 3.4sigma (2.5sigma) level assuming the mean (minimal) Galactic DM column density. As a by-product of our analysis, we provide updated upper limits to the mixing angle of sterile neutrino DM in the mass range between 2 and 20 keV.

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