Milky Way Satellite Census. IV. Constraints on Decaying Dark Matter from Observations of Milky Way Satellite Galaxies

Autor: A Mau, S., Nadler, E. O., Wechsler, R. H., Drlica-Wagner, A., Bechtol, K., Green, G., Huterer, D., Li, T. S., Mao, Y. -Y., Martínez-Vázquez, C. E., McNanna, M., Mutlu-Pakdil, B., Pace, A. B., Peter, A., Riley, A. H., Strigari, L., Wang, M. -Y., Aguena, M., Allam, S., Annis, J., Bacon, D., Bertin, E., Bocquet, S., Brooks, D., Burke, D. L., Rosell, A. Carnero, Kind, M. Carrasco, Carretero, J., Costanzi, M., Crocce, M., Pereira, M. E. S., Davis, T. M., Vicente, J. De, Desai, S., Doel, P., Ferrero, I., Flaugher, B., Frieman, J., García-Bellido, J., Gatti, M., Giannini, G., Gruen, D., Gruendl, R. A., Gschwend, J., Gutierrez, G., Hinton, S. R., Hollowood, D. L., Honscheid, K., James, D. J., Kuehn, K., Lahav, O., Maia, M. A. G., Marshall, J. L., Miquel, R., Mohr, J. J., Morgan, R., Ogando, R. L. C., Paz-Chinchón, F., Pieres, A., Rodriguez-Monroy, M., Sanchez, E., Scarpine, V., Serrano, S., Sevilla-Noarbe, I., Suchyta, E., Tarle, G., To, C., Tucker, D. L., Weller, J., DES Collaboration
Přispěvatelé: Mau, S [0000-0003-3519-4004], Nadler, EO [0000-0002-1182-3825], Wechsler, RH [0000-0003-2229-011X], Drlica-Wagner, A [0000-0001-8251-933X], Bechtol, K [0000-0001-8156-0429], Green, G [0000-0001-5417-2260], Huterer, D [0000-0001-6558-0112], Li, TS [0000-0002-9110-6163], Mao, YY [0000-0002-1200-0820], Martínez-Vázquez, CE [0000-0002-9144-7726], McNanna, M [0000-0001-5435-7820], Mutlu-Pakdil, B [0000-0001-9649-4815], Pace, AB [0000-0002-6021-8760], Peter, A [0000-0002-8040-6785], Riley, AH [0000-0001-5805-5766], Strigari, L [0000-0001-5672-6079], Wang, MY [0000-0002-8226-6237], Aguena, M [0000-0001-5679-6747], Allam, S [0000-0002-7069-7857], Annis, J [0000-0002-0609-3987], Bacon, D [0000-0002-2562-8537], Bertin, E [0000-0002-3602-3664], Bocquet, S [0000-0002-4900-805X], Brooks, D [0000-0002-8458-5047], Burke, DL [0000-0003-1866-1950], Rosell, AC [0000-0003-3044-5150], Kind, MC [0000-0002-4802-3194], Carretero, J [0000-0002-3130-0204], Costanzi, M [0000-0001-8158-1449], Crocce, M [0000-0002-9745-6228], Davis, TM [0000-0002-4213-8783], Vicente, JD [0000-0001-8318-6813], Desai, S [0000-0002-0466-3288], Ferrero, I [0000-0002-1295-1132], Flaugher, B [0000-0002-2367-5049], Frieman, J [0000-0003-4079-3263], García-Bellido, J [0000-0002-9370-8360], Giannini, G [0000-0002-3730-1750], Gruen, D [0000-0003-3270-7644], Gruendl, RA [0000-0002-4588-6517], Gschwend, J [0000-0003-3023-8362], Gutierrez, G [0000-0003-0825-0517], Hinton, SR [0000-0003-2071-9349], Hollowood, DL [0000-0002-9369-4157], Honscheid, K [0000-0002-6550-2023], James, DJ [0000-0001-5160-4486], Kuehn, K [0000-0003-0120-0808], Lahav, O [0000-0002-1134-9035], Maia, MAG [0000-0001-9856-9307], Marshall, JL [0000-0003-0710-9474], Miquel, R [0000-0002-6610-4836], Morgan, R [0000-0002-7016-5471], Ogando, RLC [0000-0003-2120-1154], Paz-Chinchón, F [0000-0003-1339-2683], Pieres, A [0000-0001-9186-6042], Sanchez, E [0000-0002-9646-8198], Serrano, S [0000-0002-0211-2861], Sevilla-Noarbe, I [0000-0002-1831-1953], Suchyta, E [0000-0002-7047-9358], Tarle, G [0000-0003-1704-0781], To, C [0000-0001-7836-2261], Tucker, DL [0000-0001-7211-5729], Weller, J [0000-0002-8282-2010], Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository, UAM. Departamento de Física Teórica, Department of Energy (US), National Science Foundation (US), Ministerio de Educación y Ciencia (España), Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology, Science and Technology Facilities Council (UK), Fundação Carlos Chagas Filho de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (Brasil), Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad (España), German Research Foundation, Agencia Estatal de Investigación (España), Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades (España), European Commission, Generalitat de Catalunya, European Research Council, A Mau, S., Nadler, E. O., Wechsler, R. H., Drlica-Wagner, A., Bechtol, K., Green, G., Huterer, D., T. S., Li, Mao, Y. -Y., Martínez-Vázquez, C. E., Mcnanna, M., Mutlu-Pakdil, B., Pace, A. B., Peter, A., Riley, A. H., Strigari, L., Wang, M. -Y., Aguena, M., Allam, S., Annis, J., Bacon, D., Bertin, E., Bocquet, S., Brooks, D., Burke, D. L., Rosell, A. Carnero, Kind, M. Carrasco, Carretero, J., Costanzi, M., Crocce, M., Pereira, M. E. S., Davis, T. M., Vicente, J. De, Desai, S., Doel, P., Ferrero, I., Flaugher, B., Frieman, J., García-Bellido, J., Gatti, M., Giannini, G., Gruen, D., Gruendl, R. A., Gschwend, J., Gutierrez, G., Hinton, S. R., Hollowood, D. L., Honscheid, K., James, D. J., Kuehn, K., Lahav, O., Maia, M. A. G., Marshall, J. L., Miquel, R., Mohr, J. J., Morgan, R., Ogando, R. L. C., Paz-Chinchón, F., Pieres, A., Rodriguez-Monroy, M., Sanchez, E., Scarpine, V., Serrano, S., Sevilla-Noarbe, I., Suchyta, E., Tarle, G., To, C., Tucker, D. L., Weller, J., Des, Collaboration
Rok vydání: 2022
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ISSN: 0004-637X
Popis: Mau et al.
We use a recent census of the Milky Way (MW) satellite galaxy population to constrain the lifetime of particle dark matter (DM). We consider two-body decaying dark matter (DDM) in which a heavy DM particle decays with lifetime τ comparable to the age of the universe to a lighter DM particle (with mass splitting epsilon) and to a dark radiation species. These decays impart a characteristic "kick velocity," Vkick = epsilonc, on the DM daughter particles, significantly depleting the DM content of low-mass subhalos and making them more susceptible to tidal disruption. We fit the suppression of the present-day DDM subhalo mass function (SHMF) as a function of τ and Vkick using a suite of high-resolution zoom-in simulations of MW-mass halos, and we validate this model on new DDM simulations of systems specifically chosen to resemble the MW. We implement our DDM SHMF predictions in a forward model that incorporates inhomogeneities in the spatial distribution and detectability of MW satellites and uncertainties in the mapping between galaxies and DM halos, the properties of the MW system, and the disruption of subhalos by the MW disk using an empirical model for the galaxy–halo connection. By comparing to the observed MW satellite population, we conservatively exclude DDM models with τ < 18 Gyr (29 Gyr) for Vkick = 20 kms−1 (40 kms−1) at 95% confidence. These constraints are among the most stringent and robust small-scale structure limits on the DM particle lifetime and strongly disfavor DDM models that have been proposed to alleviate the Hubble and S8 tensions.
Funding for the DES Projects has been provided by the U.S. Department of Energy, the U.S. National Science Foundation, the Ministry of Science and Education of Spain, the Science and Technology Facilities Council of the United Kingdom, the Higher Education Funding Council for England, the National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, the Kavli Institute of Cosmological Physics at the University of Chicago, the Center for Cosmology and Astro-Particle Physics at the Ohio State University, the Mitchell Institute for Fundamental Physics and Astronomy at Texas A&M University, Financiadora de Estudos e Projetos, Fundação Carlos Chagas Filho de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico and the Ministério da Ciência, Tecnologia e Inovação, the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, and the Collaborating Institutions in the Dark Energy Survey. The Collaborating Institutions are Argonne National Laboratory, the University of California at Santa Cruz, the University of Cambridge, Centro de Investigaciones Energéticas, Medioambientales y Tecnológicas-Madrid, the University of Chicago, University College London, the DES-Brazil Consortium, the University of Edinburgh, the Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule (ETH) Zürich, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, the Institut de Ciències de l'Espai (IEEC/CSIC), the Institut de Física d'Altes Energies, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, the Ludwig-Maximilians Universität München and the associated Excellence Cluster Universe, the University of Michigan, NSF's NOIRLab, the University of Nottingham, The Ohio State University, the University of Pennsylvania, the University of Portsmouth, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Stanford University, the University of Sussex, Texas A&M University, and the OzDES Membership Consortium. Based in part on observations at Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory at NSF's NOIRLab (NOIRLab Prop. ID 2012B-0001; PI: J. Frieman), which is managed by the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy (AURA) under a cooperative agreement with the National Science Foundation. The DES data management system is supported by the National Science Foundation under grant No. AST-1138766 and AST-1536171. The DES participants from Spanish institutions are partially supported by MICINN under grants ESP2017-89838, PGC2018-094773, PGC2018-102021, SEV-2016-0588, SEV-2016-0597, and MDM-2015-0509, some of which include ERDF funds from the European Union. IFAE is partially funded by the CERCA program of the Generalitat de Catalunya. Research leading to these results has received funding from the European Research Council under the European Union's Seventh Framework Program (FP7/2007-2013) including ERC grant agreements 240672, 291329, and 306478. We acknowledge support from the Brazilian Instituto Nacional de Ciência e Tecnologia (INCT) do e-Universo (CNPq grant 465376/2014-2). This manuscript has been authored by Fermi Research Alliance, LLC under contract No. DE-AC02-07CH11359 with the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science, Office of High Energy Physics.
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