Constraints on the dark matter particle mass from the number of Milky Way satellites

被引：152

作者：

Polisensky, Emil ^{[1
,2
]}

Ricotti, Massimo ^{[2
]}

机构：

[1] USN, Res Lab, Washington, DC 20375 USA

[2] Univ Maryland, Dept Astron, College Pk, MD 20745 USA

来源：

PHYSICAL REVIEW D | 2011年 / 83卷 / 04期

关键词：

1ST BLACK-HOLES; DWARF GALAXIES; STERILE NEUTRINOS; DENSITY PROFILES; ROTATION CURVE; LEO V; WARM; SUBSTRUCTURE; HALOS; OSCILLATIONS;

D O I：

10.1103/PhysRevD.83.043506

中图分类号：

P1 [天文学];

学科分类号：

0704 ;

摘要：

We have conducted N-body simulations of the growth of Milky Way-sized halos in cold and warm dark matter cosmologies. The number of dark matter satellites in our simulated Milky Ways decreases with decreasing mass of the dark matter particle. Assuming that the number of dark matter satellites exceeds or equals the number of observed satellites of the Milky Way, we derive lower limits on the dark matter particle mass. We find with 95% confidence m(s) > 13.3 keV for a sterile neutrino produced by the Dodelson and Widrow mechanism, m(s) > 8: 9 keV for the Shi and Fuller mechanism, m(s) > 3.0 keV for the Higgs decay mechanism, and m(WDM) > 2.3 keV for a thermal dark matter particle. The recent discovery of many new dark matter dominated satellites of the Milky Way in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey allows us to set lower limits comparable to constraints from the complementary methods of Lyman-alpha forest modeling and x-ray observations of the unresolved cosmic x-ray background and of dark matter halos from dwarf galaxy to cluster scales. Future surveys like LSST, DES, PanSTARRS, and SkyMapper have the potential to discover many more satellites and further improve constraints on the dark matter particle mass.

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