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MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY
Volume 488, Issue 2, Pages 1572-1579Publisher
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stz1816
Keywords
gravitational lensing: strong; gravitational lensing: weak; galaxies: clusters: general; dark matter
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Funding
- Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF)
- Merac foundation
- ITP Delta foundation
- European Research Council [ERC-StG-716532-PUNCA]
- UK STFC [ST/N001494/1]
- Royal Society University Research Fellowship
- European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union [769130]
- BIS National E-infrastructure capital grant [ST/K00042X/1]
- STFC capital grants [ST/H008519/1, ST/K00087X/1]
- STFC DiRAC Operations grant [ST/K003267/1]
- Durham University
- STFC [ST/R001049/1, ST/M007618/1, ST/H008519/1, ST/R000832/1, ST/K00042X/1, ST/R00689X/1, ST/T001372/1, ST/S002529/1, ST/M007065/1, ST/M007006/1, ST/P000541/1, ST/M007073/1, ST/M006948/1, ST/R001014/1, ST/T001569/1, ST/T001348/1, ST/T001550/1, ST/R001006/1] Funding Source: UKRI
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Models of cold dark matter (CDM) predict that the distribution of dark matter in galaxy clusters should be cuspy, centrally concentrated. Constant density cores would be strong evidence for beyond CDM physics, such as self-interacting dark matter (SIDM). An observable consequence would be oscillations of the brightest cluster galaxy (BCG) in otherwise relaxed galaxy clusters. Offset BCGs have indeed been observed - but only interpreted via a simplified, analytic model of oscillations. We compare these observations to the BAryons and HAloes of MAssive Sysmtes (BAHAMAS)-SIDM suite of cosmological simulations, which include SIDM and a fully hydrodynamical treatment of star formation and feedback. We predict that the median offset of BCGs increases with the SIDM cross-section, cluster mass, and the amount of stellar mass within 10 kpc, while CDM exhibits no trend in mass. Interpolating between the simulated cross-sections, we find that the observations (of 10 clusters) are consistent with CDM at the similar to 1.5 sigma level, and prefer cross-section sigma/m < 0.12(0.39) cm(2) g(-1) at 68 per cent (95 per cent) confidence level. This is on the verge of ruling out velocity-independent dark matter self-interactions as the solution to discrepancies between the predicted and observed behaviour of dwarf galaxies, and will be improved by larger surveys by Euclid or Superpressure Balloon-borne Imaging Telescope (SuperBIT).
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