Sommerfeld-enhanced -factors for dwarf spheroidal galaxies
Abstract
For models where dark matter annihilation is Sommerfeld-enhanced, the annihilation cross section increases at low relative velocities. Dwarf spheroidal galaxies (dSphs) have low characteristic dark matter particle velocities and are thus ideal candidates to study such models. Here, we model the dark matter phase space of dSphs as isotropic and spherically-symmetric, and determine the J-factors for several of the most important targets for indirect dark matter searches. For Navarro-Frenk-White density profiles, we quantify the scatter in the J-factor arising from the astrophysical uncertainty in the dark matter potential. We show that, in Sommerfeld-enhanced models, the ordering of the most promising dSphs may be different relative to the standard case of velocity-independent cross sections. This result can have important implications for derived upper limits on the annihilation cross section, or on possible signals, from dSphs
- Authors:
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- Univ. of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI (United States)
- Texas A & M Univ., College Station, TX (United States)
- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- Univ. of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC), High Energy Physics (HEP); National Science Foundation (NSF)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1598604
- Grant/Contract Number:
- SC0010504; PHY-1250573; PHY-1522717
- Resource Type:
- Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- Physical Review D
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Volume: 95; Journal Issue: 12; Journal ID: ISSN 2470-0010
- Publisher:
- American Physical Society (APS)
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 72 PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS; 79 ASTRONOMY AND ASTROPHYSICS
Citation Formats
Boddy, Kimberly K., Kumar, Jason, Strigari, Louis E., and Wang, Mei-Yu. Sommerfeld-enhanced J-factors for dwarf spheroidal galaxies. United States: N. p., 2017.
Web. doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.95.123008.
Boddy, Kimberly K., Kumar, Jason, Strigari, Louis E., & Wang, Mei-Yu. Sommerfeld-enhanced J-factors for dwarf spheroidal galaxies. United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.95.123008
Boddy, Kimberly K., Kumar, Jason, Strigari, Louis E., and Wang, Mei-Yu. Fri .
"Sommerfeld-enhanced J-factors for dwarf spheroidal galaxies". United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.95.123008. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1598604.
@article{osti_1598604,
title = {Sommerfeld-enhanced J-factors for dwarf spheroidal galaxies},
author = {Boddy, Kimberly K. and Kumar, Jason and Strigari, Louis E. and Wang, Mei-Yu},
abstractNote = {For models where dark matter annihilation is Sommerfeld-enhanced, the annihilation cross section increases at low relative velocities. Dwarf spheroidal galaxies (dSphs) have low characteristic dark matter particle velocities and are thus ideal candidates to study such models. Here, we model the dark matter phase space of dSphs as isotropic and spherically-symmetric, and determine the J-factors for several of the most important targets for indirect dark matter searches. For Navarro-Frenk-White density profiles, we quantify the scatter in the J-factor arising from the astrophysical uncertainty in the dark matter potential. We show that, in Sommerfeld-enhanced models, the ordering of the most promising dSphs may be different relative to the standard case of velocity-independent cross sections. This result can have important implications for derived upper limits on the annihilation cross section, or on possible signals, from dSphs},
doi = {10.1103/PhysRevD.95.123008},
journal = {Physical Review D},
number = 12,
volume = 95,
place = {United States},
year = {Fri Jun 16 00:00:00 EDT 2017},
month = {Fri Jun 16 00:00:00 EDT 2017}
}
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