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]
Testing the isothermal Jeans model for self-interacting dark matter halos in the collapse phase
School of Physics and Astronomy, Beijing Normal University(北京师范大学物理与天文学院);National Astronomical Observatories, Chinese Academy of Sciences(中国科学院国家天文台);School of Astronomy and Space Science, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences(中国科学院大学天文与空间科学学院);Donostia International Physics Center (DIPC)(圣塞巴斯蒂安国际物理中心);Department of Astronomy, Peking University(北京大学天文学系);Kavli Institute for Astronomy and Astrophysics, Peking University(北京大学科维理天文与天体物理研究所);Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of California, Riverside(加州大学河滨分校物理与天文学系)
Survival of the most compact: the life and death of satellite halos in self-interacting dark matter
Goethe University(法兰克福歌德大学);Donostia International Physics Center (DIPC)(圣塞巴斯蒂安国际物理中心);Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München(慕尼黑路德维希-马克西米利安大学);Excellence Cluster ORIGINS(ORIGINS卓越集群);The University of Texas at Austin(得克萨斯大学奥斯汀分校);University of California - Irvine(加州大学尔湾分校)
Beyond $w_0-w_a$ and Phantom Crossing: Testing Models of Coupled Dark Sector
Instituto de Física Teórica da Universidade Estadual Paulista(圣保罗州立大学理论物理研究所);ICTP South American Institute for Fundamental Research(国际理论物理中心南美基础研究所);Department of Astronomy/Steward Observatory, University of Arizona(亚利桑那大学天文学系/斯图尔德天文台)
Testing the Direction of Dark Sector Interaction Using Late-Time Datasets
Department of Physics, St.Xavier’s College, Tribhuvan University(特莱布万大学圣泽维尔学院物理系);School of Science & College of Graduate Studies, Walailak University(瓦拉柴拉科大学理学院及研究生院);Department of Physics, Faculty of Science, Istanbul University(伊斯坦布尔大学理学院物理系);Kimyo International University in Tashkent(塔什干金宇国际大学)