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暗物质湮灭的同步辐射:用新的射电巡天预测星系团未探测到的限制

Synchrotron Emission from Dark Matter Annihilation: Predictions for Constraints from Non-detections of Galaxy Clusters with New Radio Surveys

Emma Storm, Tesla E. Jeltema, Megan Splettstoesser, Stefano Profumo

摘要:

暗物质粒子的湮灭预计将通过天体物理环境中标准模型粒子的产生产生广泛的辐射光谱。特别是,来自暗物质湮灭的电子和正电子在存在磁场的情况下产生同步辐射。星系团是宇宙中质量最大的坍缩结构,并且已知拥有$\simμ$ G尺度的磁场。因此,它们是搜寻或限制来自暗物质湮灭的同步信号的理想目标。在这项工作中,我们使用的几个计划的调查,从下一代射电望远镜的预期灵敏度来预测暗物质湮灭模型,这将实现在非检测的情况下,从星系团的漫射无线电发射的约束。具体来说,我们考虑了计划在120 MHz的低频阵列(LOFAR)的第1级调查,计划在1.4 GHz的澳大利亚平方公里阵列探路者(ASKAP)的EMU调查,以及计划在1.4 GHz的APERTIF调查。我们发现,对于大质量的星系团和暗物质质量$\lesssim 100$ GeV,湮灭截面的预测限制将排除香草热遗迹模型,即使是浅LOFAR第1层,ASKAP和APERTIF调查。

英文摘要:

The annihilation of dark matter particles is expected to yield a broad radiation spectrum via the production of Standard Model particles in astrophysical environments. In particular, electrons and positrons from dark matter annihilation produce synchrotron radiation in the presence of magnetic fields. Galaxy clusters are the most massive collapsed structures in the universe, and are known to host $\simμ$G-scale magnetic fields. They are therefore ideal targets to search for, or to constrain the synchrotron signal from dark matter annihilation. In this work we use the expected sensitivities of several planned surveys from the next generation of radio telescopes to predict the constraints on dark matter annihilation models which will be achieved in the case of non-detections of diffuse radio emission from galaxy clusters. Specifically, we consider the Tier 1 survey planned for the Low Frequency Array (LOFAR) at 120 MHz, the EMU survey planned for the Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder (ASKAP) at 1.4 GHz, and planned surveys for APERTIF at 1.4 GHz. We find that, for massive clusters and dark matter masses $\lesssim 100$ GeV, the predicted limits on the annihilation cross section would rule out vanilla thermal relic models for even the shallow LOFAR Tier 1, ASKAP, and APERTIF surveys.

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