期刊
MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY
卷 474, 期 1, 页码 388-399出版社
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stx2715
关键词
astroparticle physics; galaxies: clusters: general; dark matter
资金
- DFG [KA 4662/1-1]
- ERC [638528]
- European Research Council (ERC) [638528] Funding Source: European Research Council (ERC)
Self-interacting dark matter may have striking astrophysical signatures, such as observable offsets between galaxies and dark matter in merging galaxy clusters. Numerical N-body simulations used to predict such observables typically treat the galaxies as collisionless test particles, a questionable assumption given that each galaxy is embedded in its own dark matter halo. To enable a more accurate treatment, we develop an effective description of small dark matter haloes taking into account the two major effects due to dark matter self-scatterings: deceleration and evaporation. We point out that self-scatterings can have a sizeable impact on the trajectories of galaxies, diminishing the separation between galaxies and dark matter in merging clusters. This effect depends sensitively on the underlying particle physics, in particular, the angular dependence of the self-scattering cross-section, and cannot be predicted from the momentum transfer cross-section alone.
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