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用星系扭曲测试自相互作用的暗物质

Testing self-interacting dark matter with galaxy warps

Kris Pardo, Harry Desmond, Pedro G. Ferreira

摘要:

自相互作用暗物质(SIDM)是无碰撞暗物质的一种可能替代物。如果暗物质确实有自相互作用,我们就可以预期,当星系穿过暗物质介质时,会导致无碰撞恒星与星系的暗物质晕分离。对于排列在圆盘中的恒星,这将产生U形弯曲。这种弯曲的大小取决于SIDM截面、自相互作用的类型、星系和背景的相对速度、晕结构和暗物质介质的密度。在本文中,我们通过这个信号对长程(光介质)暗物质自相互作用设置了约束。我们首先测量斯隆数字巡天中$3,213$边缘盘星系的U形翘曲。然后,我们正向模型的预期翘曲从SIDM星系的基础上,通过结合模型的晕结构,密度和速度场重建,和模型的暗物质相互作用。我们没有发现任何证据表明,从SIDM的翘曲的贡献。我们的约束是高度依赖于我们的星系的不确定的速度:对于一个归一化的卢瑟福一样的横截面,我们发现$\tildeσ/m_{\rm{DM}} \lesssim 3\times 10^{-13}~\rm{cm}^2/\rm{g}$在固定的速度$v = 300~\rm{km/s}$ -一个边界,规模大致线性增加$v$。在附录中,我们将这些边界转化为动量传递截面的极限,得到$σ_T(300~\rm{km/s})/m_{\rm{DM}} \lesssim 0.1~\rm{cm}^2/\rm{g}$。[删节]

英文摘要:

Self-interacting dark matter (SIDM) is an able alternative to collisionless dark matter. If dark matter does have self-interactions, we would expect this to cause a separation between the collisionless stars and the dark matter halo of a galaxy as it falls through a dark matter medium. For stars arranged in a disk, this would generate a U-shaped warp. The magnitude of this warping depends on the SIDM cross section, type of self-interaction, relative velocity of galaxy and background, halo structure, and density of the dark matter medium. In this paper, we set constraints on long-range (light mediator) dark matter self-interaction by means of this signal. We begin by measuring U-shaped warps in $3,213$ edge-on disk galaxies within the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. We then forward-model the expected warp from SIDM on a galaxy-by-galaxy basis by combining models of halo structure, density and velocity field reconstructions, and models for the dark matter interactions. We find no evidence for a contribution to the warps from SIDM. Our constraints are highly dependent on the uncertain velocities of our galaxies: for a normalized Rutherford-like cross section we find $\tildeσ/m_{\rm{DM}} \lesssim 3\times 10^{-13}~\rm{cm}^2/\rm{g}$ at fixed velocity $v = 300~\rm{km/s}$ -- a bound that scales roughly linearly with increasing $v$. In the appendix we translate these bounds into limits on the momentum transfer cross section, finding $σ_T(300~\rm{km/s})/m_{\rm{DM}} \lesssim 0.1~\rm{cm}^2/\rm{g}$. [abridged]

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