Simulations of galaxy cluster mergers with velocity-dependent, rare and frequent self-interactions
| Autor: | Sabarish, V. M., Brüggen, Marcus, Schmidt-Hoberg, Kai, Fischer, Moritz S., Kahlhoefer, Felix |
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| Rok vydání: | 2023 |
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| Zdroj: | Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 529, Issue 3, April 2024, Pages 2032-2046 |
| Druh dokumentu: | Working Paper |
| DOI: | 10.1093/mnras/stae664 |
| Popis: | Self-interacting dark matter (SIDM) has been proposed to solve small-scale problems in $\Lambda$CDM cosmology. In previous work, constraints on the self-interaction cross-section of dark matter have been derived assuming that the self-interaction cross-section is independent of velocity. However, a velocity-dependent cross-section is more natural in most theories of SIDM. Using idealized $N$-body simulations without baryons, we study merging clusters with velocity-dependent SIDM. In addition to the usual rare scattering in the isotropic limit, we also simulate these systems with anisotropic, small-angle (frequent) scatterings. We find that the collision-less brightest cluster galaxy (BCG) has an offset from the DM peak that grows at later stages. Finally, we also extend the existing upper bounds on the velocity-independent, isotropic self-interaction cross-section to the parameter space of rare and frequent velocity-dependent self-interactions by studying the central densities of dark matter-only isolated haloes. For these upper-bound parameters, the DM-BCG offsets just after the first pericentre in the dark matter-only simulations are found to be $\leq$ 10 kpc. On the other hand, because of BCG oscillations, we speculate that the distribution of BCG offsets in a relaxed cluster is a statistically viable probe. Therefore, this motivates further studies of BCG off-centring in hydrodynamic cosmological simulations. Comment: 12 pages, 9 figures + appendices, published in MNRAS |
| Databáze: | arXiv |
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