Author: Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages : 12
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A galactic halo of cold dark matter particles has a sheet-like structure in phase-space. The energy and momentum spectra of such particles on earth has a set of peaks whose central values and intensities form a record of the formation of the Galaxy. Scattering of the dark matter particles by stars and globular clusters broadens the peaks but does not erase them entirely. The giant shells around some elliptical galaxies may be a manifestation of this structure.
Author: Miguel A. Sánchez-Conde Publisher: MDPI ISBN: 3039360442 Category : Mathematics Languages : en Pages : 220
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An important, open research topic today is to understand the relevance that dark matter halo substructure may have for dark matter searches. In the standard cosmological model, halo substructure or subhalos are predicted to be largely abundant inside larger halos, for example, galaxies such as ours, and are thought to form first and later merge to form larger structures. Dwarf satellite galaxies—the most massive exponents of halo substructure in our own galaxy—are already known to be excellent targets for dark matter searches, and indeed, they are constantly scrutinized by current gamma-ray experiments in the search for dark matter signals. Lighter subhalos not massive enough to have a visible counterpart of stars and gas may be good targets as well, given their typical abundances and distances. In addition, the clumpy distribution of subhalos residing in larger halos may boost the dark matter signals considerably. In an era in which gamma-ray experiments possess, for the first time, the exciting potential to put to test the preferred dark matter particle theories, a profound knowledge of dark matter astrophysical targets and scenarios is mandatory should we aim for accurate predictions of dark matter-induced fluxes for investing significant telescope observing time on selected targets and for deriving robust conclusions from our dark matter search efforts. In this regard, a precise characterization of the statistical and structural properties of subhalos becomes critical. In this Special Issue, we aim to summarize where we stand today on our knowledge of the different aspects of the dark matter halo substructure; to identify what are the remaining big questions, and how we could address these; and, by doing so, to find new avenues for research.
Author: Daniel R. Hunter Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages : 127
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This work focuses on models of galactic dark matter halos and observational prospects. We investigate the impact of careful computation of the phase-space density and velocity distribution of weakly-interacting massive particles, a major class of dark matter particle candidates, in the Milky Way. In particular, the possibility of a non-trivial velocity-dependence in the self-annihilation cross-section from the Sommerfeld effect is considered in indirect detection; we derive an upper limit on the local velocity dispersion and examine the significance of local anisotropy in the local dark matter distribution in direct detection efforts.
Author: Anael Berrouet Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages : 84
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This thesis examines the nature of mixing and heating during the merging of single, isolated dark matter halos, as well as a short discussion of the statistical nature of repeated mergers in a cosmological setting. A small set of gravitational \N-body" simulations of halo mergers are used to study heating and mixing, by measuring the dynamical properties of individual particles, as well as the overall properties of the merging halos. The accretion of mass onto a host halo is known to change the overall structure of the halo. Many previous studies have determined the general effect of mass accretion on the structure of the halo in general, and the concentration parameter in particular. Changes in this concentration parameter over the course of the merger are measured as a function of the mass of the incoming satellite and the circularity of the satellite's orbit. The amount of self-mixing in the radii and energies are also examined in order to determine the amount of memory preserved in the host halo throughout merger, as well as the amount of phase-space mixing between the host and satellite halos. Three possibilities are considered when observing how the host and satellite are mixed: that new material is layered onto the outside of the host halo and that new material falls into the center of the host halo, and that new material is evenly distributed throughout the host. Halos are found to be unevenly heated by in-falling material. The heating overall tends to make the halo expand and experience a drop in its concentration parameter due to the increase in scale radius. Examining the cumulative mass distribution and the density pro le of each halo through time, it is clear that material from the core is transported to larger radii during the merger. The scale radius presents the most relevant parameter with which to measure heating, as it represents the extent of the core of the halo. The relative increase in this observable appears to have non-trivial dependence on the mass ratio of the merging halos. We develop a simple model which provides the ability to estimate the change in the scale radius as function of the mass ratio of the merging objects. The model does not take circularity, or the total energy of the orbit into consideration, but the orbital energy of each orbit is representative of cosmological energies expected and any dependence on the circularity is actually extremely weak. Future work will examine the particular nature of these dependencies. Mixing within the host is found to be relatively inefficient, with a maximum mixing leading to a rank correlation of approximately 0:7 in radius and 0:65 in energy. This relatively small amount of mixing is even less visible when particles are binned in to radial shells, explaining previous findings of very little mixing in the literature. We also investigated the nature of phase-space mixing, that is mixing in position-velocity space, between the host and satellite halos. We expected a certain amount of phase-space mixing among the merging structures, due to the fact that they must overlap spatially, and that exchanges of energy would bring their velocity distributions closer together. Overall, merging halos will tend towards equipartition of their energies through dynamical friction. We nd that phase-space mixing is most e cient at mass ratios close to 1:1. The distance between the phase-space distributions of each halo, as measured by a statistic outlined in this work, is found to be anti-correlated to the mass ratio. Finally a few simple applications to previous work performed by Wong & Taylor (2012) as well as Fakhouri & Ma (2008) is replicated. Using the mass accretion histories developed during this work, the heating model is applied to the mass accretion histories in order to build a theoretical concentration distribution prediction for halos at redshift z = 0.
Author: Hans Volker Klapdor-kleingrothaus Publisher: World Scientific ISBN: 9814546364 Category : Languages : en Pages : 758
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This volume contains the talks presented at the International Workshop on Aspects of Dark Matter in Astro- and Particle Physics (DARK '96). It provides a thorough presentation and discussion of the topic of dark matter, which currently seems to be one of the most exciting problems of modern physics, in the perspectives of different disciplines like astronomy, astrophysics, cosmology and particle physics.The lectures and talks range from astronomical evidence in galaxies and galaxy clusters, recent information provided by X rays (ROSAT satellite) and by observation of MACHOs, to early universe and particle physics solutions to the dark matter problem, including simultaneous solutions to the problems of baryogenesis and dark matter. Beyond the favoured supersymmetric candidates, the more exotic dark matter proposals are also discussed. The experimental section examines the most recent efforts in direct and indirect experiments, including new techniques like cryogenic detectors and superheated droplet detectors, as well as efforts with large scale underground detectors like MACRO, Baksan, Baikal and AMANDA. Also, the potential of present and future (LHC) high energy accelerators is thoroughly discussed. A section on hot dark matter gives the current status of experiments searching for a neutrino mass, like double beta decay and neutrino oscillation experiments, including intermediate scale long baseline experiments.
Author: Karia Radh Dibert Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages : 40
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Self-interacting dark matter, which serves as an alternative to collisionless cold dark matter, may be useful for solving the small-scale galaxy formation problems present in the Lambda-Cold Dark Matter model. So far, most self-interacting dark matter simulations have considered only elastic collisions between particles. Using the results of a numerical implementation in the AREPO code, the effects of two-state inelastic dark matter on the density profiles, velocity dispersions, pseudo-phase-space density profiles, orbital anisotropy parameter profiles, and principal axis ratios of galactic halos are examined. We find that inelastic self-interacting dark matter halos differ from both cold dark matter halos and elastic self-interacting dark matter halos in density profiles, in velocity dispersion profiles, in pseudo-phase-space density profiles, and in orbital anisotropy parameter profiles, while the shapes of the halos generated by elastic and inelastic self-interacting dark matter models are relatively similar.
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We study the structure and substructure of Lambda-CDM halos using a suite of high-resolution cosmological N-body simulations. Our analysis of the substructure population of dark matter halos focuses on their mass and peak circular velocity functions, as well as their spatial distribution and dynamics. In our analysis, we consider the whole population of subhalos physically associated with the main halo, defined as those that have, at some time, crossed within the virial radius of the main progenitor. We find that this population extends beyond 3 times the virial radius and includes objects on unorthodox orbits, several of which travel at velocities approaching the nominal escape speed from the system. We trace the origin of these unorthodox orbits to the tidal dissociation of bound groups, which results in the ejection of some systems along tidal streams. This process primarily influences low-mass systems leading to clear mass-dependent biases in their spatial distribution and kinematics: the lower the subhalo mass at accretion time the more concentrated and kinematically hotter their descendant population. When quantified in terms of present day subhalo mass these trends disappear, presumably due to the increased effect of dynamical friction and tidal stripping on massive systems. We confirm several of these results using the ultra-high resolution Aquarius simulations, which extend the dynamic range of the subhalo mass function by nearly 3 orders of magnitude. Using these simulations we confirm that the substructure mass function follows a power-law, $dN/dM\propto M^{-1.9}$, and exhibits very little halo-to-halo scatter. This implies that the total mass in substructure within a given halo is bounded to a small fraction of the total halo mass, with the smooth component dominating the halo inner regions. Using the Aquarius simulations we study the structure of galaxy-sized Lambda-CDM halos. We find that the spherically averaged density profiles become increasingly sh.
Author: Neil J. C. Spooner Publisher: World Scientific ISBN: 9789810246020 Category : Science Languages : en Pages : 666
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The objective of the workshop series ?The Identification of Dark Matter? is to assess critically the status of work attempting to identify what constitutes dark matter; in particular, to consider what techniques are currently being used, how successful they are, and what new techniques are likely to improve the prospects for identifying dark matter candidates in the future. This proceedings volume includes reviews on major particle astrophysics topics in the field of dark matter, as well as short contributed papers.
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