期刊
ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL
卷 686, 期 1, 页码 262-278出版社
IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.1086/590337
关键词
dark matter; galaxies : halos; Galaxy : structure; gamma rays : theory; methods : n-body simulations
资金
- NASA [NAG5-11513, NNG04GK85G, HST-HF-01194.01]
- DOE's Office of Science
- Novel Computational Impact on Theory and Experiment (INCITE) program
We present quantitative predictions for the detectability of individual Galactic dark matter subhalos in gamma rays from dark matter pair annihilations in their centers. Our method is based on a hybrid approach, employing the highest resolution numerical simulations available (including the recently completed 1 billion particle Via Lactea II simulation), as well as analytical models, for extrapolating beyond the simulations' resolution limit. We include a self-consistent treatment of subhalo boost factors, motivated by our numerical results, and a realistic treatment of the expected backgrounds that individual subhalos must outshine. We show that for reasonable values of the dark matter particle physics parameters (M-chi similar to 50-500 GeV and similar to 10(-26)-10(-25) cm(3) s(-1)) GLAST may very well discover a few, even up to several dozen, such subhalos at 5 sigma significance, and some at more than 20 sigma. We predict that the majority of luminous sources would be resolved with GLAST's expected angular resolution. For most observer locations, the angular distribution of detectable subhalos is consistent with a uniform distribution across the sky. The brightest subhalos tend to be massive ( median V-max of 24 km s(-1)) and therefore likely hosts of dwarf galaxies, but many subhalos with Vmax as low as 5 km s(-1) are also visible. Typically detectable subhalos are 20-40 kpc from the observer, and only a small fraction are closer than 10 kpc. The total number of observable subhalos has not yet converged in our simulations, and we estimate that we may be missing up to 3/4 of all detectable subhalos.
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