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| العنوان: |
Hunting dark matter in galaxy clusters with non-thermal electrons. |
| المؤلفون: |
Beck, Geoff1 (AUTHOR) geoffrey.beck@wits.ac.za |
| المصدر: |
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 05/01/2020, Vol. 494 Issue 1, p1128-1132. 5p. |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: |
*GALAXY clusters, *DARK matter, *SYNCHROTRON radiation, *ELECTRONS, *MAGNETIC fields, *ANNIHILATION reactions, *ELECTRON distribution |
| مستخلص: |
The electron population inferred to be responsible for the mini-halo within the Ophiuchus galaxy cluster is a steep power law in energy with a slope of 3.8. This is substantially different to that predicted by dark matter (DM) annihilation models. In this work, we present a method of indirect comparison between the observed electron spectrum and that predicted for indirect DM emissions. This method utilizes differences in the consequences of a given electron distribution on the subsequent spectral features of synchrotron emissions. To fully exploit this difference, by leveraging the fact that the peak and cut-off synchrotron frequencies are substantially different to hard power-law cases for WIMP masses above ∼50 GeV, we find that we need μJy sensitivities at frequencies above 10 GHz while being sensitive to arcminute scales. We explore the extent to which this electron spectrum comparison can be validated with the up-coming next-generation Very Large Array (ngVLA) instrument. We show that, with the ngVLA, this method allows us to produce far stronger constraints than existing VLA data, indeed these exceed the Fermi -LAT dwarf searches in a wide variety of annihilation channels and for all studied magnetic field scenarios. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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