Towards Testing Sterile Neutrino Dark Matter with Spectrum-Roentgen-Gamma Mission
V. V. Barinov, R. A. Burenin, D. S. Gorbunov, R. A. Krivonos
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9 pages, 7 figures; v2: refined with measured background, added new plot with expected limits for already collected data, then for 1 year and 4 years in the survey mode; v3: replaced with journal version
We investigate the prospects of the SRG mission in searches for the keV-scale mass sterile neutrino dark matter radiatively decaying into active neutrino and photon. The ongoing all-sky X-ray survey of the SRG space observatory with data acquired by the ART-XC and eROSITA telescopes can provide a possibility to fully explore the resonant production mechanism of the dark matter sterile neutrino, which exploits the lepton asymmetry in the primordial plasma consistent with cosmological limits from the Big Bang Nucleosynthesis. In particular, it is shown that at the end of the four year all-sky survey, the sensitivity of the eROSITA telescope near the 3.5 keV line signal reported earlier can be comparable to that of the XMM-Newton with all collected data, which will allow one to carry out another independent study of the possible sterile neutrino decay signal in this area. In the energy range below $\approx2.4$ keV, the expected constraints on the model parameters can be significantly stronger than those obtained with XMM-Newton. From the ART-XC data, in the energy range approximately from 5 to 20 keV, it can be possible to get more stringent constraints than those obtained with NuSTAR so far. We conclude that the SRG mission has a very high potential in testing the sterile neutrino dark matter hypothesis.
We provide a correlation analysis of signatures associated with traces of the dark matter decay and the galaxy spatial distribution according to the 2MRS catalog of galaxies. Signature data analysis plays an important role in the context of current and future observations and cosmological constraints. Attention is paid to the constraints that can be obtained for decaying sterile neutrinos when analyzing observations in the context of the Spectr-Roentegn-Gamma (SRG) mission. We study the correlation spectra of dark matter and galaxies, which can be obtained both for the eROSITA telescope and fo…
The cosmological X-ray emission associated to the possible radiative decay of sterile neutrinos is composed by a collection of lines at different energies. For a given mass, each line corresponds to a given redshift. In this work, we cross correlate such line emission with catalogs of galaxies tracing the dark matter distribution at different redshifts. We derive observational prospects by correlating the X-ray sky that will be probed by the eROSITA and Athena missions with current and near future photometric and spectroscopic galaxy surveys. A relevant and unexplored fraction of the parameter…
We calculate the most stringent constraints up to date on the parameter space for sterile neutrino warm dark matter models possessing a radiative decay channel into X-rays. These constraints arise from the X-ray flux observations from the Galactic center (central parsec), taken by the XMM and NuSTAR missions. We compare the results obtained from using different dark matter density profiles for the Milky Way, such as NFW, Burkert or Einasto, to that produced by the Ruffini-Argüelles-Rueda (RAR) fermionic model, which has the distinct feature of depending on the particle mass. We show that due t…
We present a precise analysis to test hypothetical models involving sterile neutrinos beyond the standard flat-$Λ$CDM cosmology with the CMB observations from the $Planck$ mission and BAO measurements. This analysis shows that adding the locally measured Hubble parameter $H_{0}$ = $73.00\pm1.75 $ km $\textrm s^{-1}$ Mp$\textrm c^{-1} $ to the data removes the need for the informative physical $m_{sterile}^{thermal}$ prior in CMB constraints of $ m_{ν,sterile}^{eff}$. Under the constraints from the data containing the locally measured $H_{0}$ we obtain an upper limit $ m_{ν,sterile}^{eff} < 0.3…
We search for sterile neutrinos in the holographic dark energy cosmology by using the latest observational data. To perform the analysis, we employ the current cosmological observations, including the cosmic microwave background temperature power spectrum data from the Planck mission, the baryon acoustic oscillation measurements, the type Ia supernova data, the redshift space distortion measurements, the shear data of weak lensing observation, the Planck lensing measurement, and the latest direct measurement of $H_0$ as well. We show that, compared to the $Λ$CDM cosmology, the holographic dark…
The possibility that the so-called "lithium problem", i.e. the disagreement between the theoretical abundance predicted for primordial $^7$Li assuming standard nucleosynthesis and the value inferred from astrophysical measurements, can be solved through a non-thermal BBN mechanism has been investigated by several authors. In particular, it has been shown that the decay of a MeV-mass particle, like, e.g., a sterile neutrino, decaying after BBN not only solves the lithium problem, but also satisfies cosmological and laboratory bounds, making such a scenario worth to be investigated in further de…
MeV dark matter decay forecasts for the COSI mission
University of California, Berkeley（加州大学伯克利分校）；Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory（劳伦斯伯克利国家实验室）；University of California, Los Angeles（加州大学洛杉矶分校）；Southeastern Universities Research Association (SURA)（东南大学研究协会）；NASA Goddard Space Flight Center（美国宇航局戈达德太空飞行中心）；Laboratoire d’Annecy de Physique Théorique (LAPTh), CNRS, USMB（阿讷西理论物理实验室，法国国家科学研究中心，萨瓦大学）；Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz（美因茨约翰内斯·古腾堡大学）；Harvard University（哈佛大学）；Clemson University（克莱姆森大学）；Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe (IPMU, WPI), The University of Tokyo（东京大学宇宙物理数学研究所）
Observations of nearby galaxies and galaxy clusters have reported an unexpected X-ray emission line around 3.5 kilo-electron volts (keV). Proposals to explain this line include decaying dark matter$-$in particular, that the decay of sterile neutrinos with a mass around 7 keV could match the available data. If this interpretation is correct, the 3.5 keV line should also be emitted by dark matter in the halo of the Milky Way. We used more than 30 megaseconds of XMM-Newton (X-ray Multi-Mirror Mission) blank-sky observations to test this hypothesis, finding no evidence of the 3.5-keV line emission…
The SRG/eROSITA All-Sky Survey: Early dark energy and Hubble constant from the cluster mass function
Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics（马克斯·普朗克地外物理研究所）；LMU München（慕尼黑大学）；Universität Innsbruck（因斯布鲁克大学）；IRAP, Université de Toulouse, CNRS, UPS, CNES（图卢兹大学/法国国家科学研究中心/法国航天研究中心天体物理学与行星学研究所）；INAF, Osservatorio di Astrofisica e Scienza dello Spazio（意大利国家天体物理研究所空间天体物理观测站）；Beijing Normal University（北京师范大学）；Université Grenoble Alpes, CNRS, Grenoble INP, LPSC-IN2P3（格勒诺布尔阿尔卑斯大学）；National Cheng Kung University（国立成功大学）；Nagoya University（名古屋大学）；The University of Tokyo（东京大学）
