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来自Milky Way卫星群的暗物质微物理学约束

Constraints on Dark Matter Microphysics from the Milky Way Satellite Population

Ethan O. Nadler, Vera Gluscevic, Kimberly K. Boddy, Risa H. Wechsler

摘要:

冷的、无碰撞的暗物质(DM)范式的替代方案,其中DM表现为碰撞流体,通常抑制小尺度结构。在这里,我们使用观测到的银河系(MW)卫星星系的人口来约束DM的碰撞性质,专注于DM重子散射。我们首先推导出解析上限的速度无关的DM重子散射截面上的最低质量的晕推断到主机卫星的线性物质功率谱的特征截止尺度的上限。然后,我们确认和改进这些结果通过详细的概率推断MW卫星人口边缘化相关的天体物理学的不确定性。这就产生了DM粒子质量$m_χ$为~ $10\ \rm{keV}$($10\ \rm{GeV}$)的DM重子散射截面$2\times10^{-29}\ \rm{cm}^2$($6\times 10^{-27}\ \rm{cm}^2$)的$95\%$置信上限;这些极限的尺度为$m_χ\ll 1\ \rm{GeV}$的$m_χ^{1/4}$和~ $m_χ\gg 1\ \rm{GeV}$的$m_χ$。这种分析改进了宇宙学边界来自宇宙微波背景各向异性测量的多个数量级的DM质量范围很广,不包括以前未探索的其他方法,包括直接检测实验的参数空间的区域。我们的工作揭示了DM重子散射和其他替代DM模型之间的映射,我们讨论了我们的结果温暖和模糊DM方案的影响。

英文摘要:

Alternatives to the cold, collisionless dark matter (DM) paradigm in which DM behaves as a collisional fluid generically suppress small-scale structure. Herein we use the observed population of Milky Way (MW) satellite galaxies to constrain the collisional nature of DM, focusing on DM-baryon scattering. We first derive analytic upper limits on the velocity-independent DM-baryon scattering cross section by translating the upper bound on the lowest mass of halos inferred to host satellites into a characteristic cutoff scale in the linear matter power spectrum. We then confirm and improve these results through a detailed probabilistic inference of the MW satellite population that marginalizes over relevant astrophysical uncertainties. This yields $95\%$ confidence upper limits on the DM-baryon scattering cross section of $2\times10^{-29}\ \rm{cm}^2$ ($6\times 10^{-27}\ \rm{cm}^2$) for DM particle masses $m_χ$ of~$10\ \rm{keV}$ ($10\ \rm{GeV}$); these limits scale as $m_χ^{1/4}$ for $m_χ\ll 1\ \rm{GeV}$ and $m_χ$ for~$m_χ\gg 1\ \rm{GeV}$. This analysis improves upon cosmological bounds derived from cosmic-microwave-background anisotropy measurements by multiple orders of magnitude over a wide range of DM masses, excluding regions of parameter space previously unexplored by other methods, including direct-detection experiments. Our work reveals a mapping between DM-baryon scattering and other alternative DM models, and we discuss the implications of our results for warm and fuzzy DM scenarios.

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