Dr Matthieu Schaller matthieu.schaller@durham.ac.uk
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The low abundance and insignificance of dark discs in simulated Milky Way galaxies
Schaller, Matthieu; Frenk, Carlos S.; Fattahi, Azadeh; Navarro, Julio F.; Oman, Kyle A.; Sawala, Till
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Professor Carlos Frenk c.s.frenk@durham.ac.uk
Professor
Azadeh Fattahi
Julio F. Navarro
Kyle A. Oman
Till Sawala
Abstract
We investigate the presence and importance of dark matter discs in a sample of 24 simulated Milky Way galaxies in the apostle project, part of the eagle programme of hydrodynamic simulations in ΛCDM cosmology. It has been suggested that a dark disc in the Milky Way may boost the dark matter density and modify the velocity modulus relative to a smooth halo at the position of the Sun, with ramifications for direct detection experiments. From a kinematic decomposition of the dark matter and a real space analysis of all 24 haloes, we find that only one of the simulated Milky Way analogues has a detectable dark disc component. This unique event was caused by a merger at late time with an LMC-mass satellite at very low grazing angle. Considering that even this rare scenario only enhances the dark matter density at the solar radius by 35 per cent and affects the high-energy tail of the dark matter velocity distribution by less than 1 per cent, we conclude that the presence of a dark disc in the Milky Way is unlikely, and is very unlikely to have a significant effect on direct detection experiments.
Citation
Schaller, M., Frenk, C. S., Fattahi, A., Navarro, J. F., Oman, K. A., & Sawala, T. (2016). The low abundance and insignificance of dark discs in simulated Milky Way galaxies. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society: Letters, 461(1), L56-L61. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnrasl/slw101
Journal Article Type | Article |
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Acceptance Date | May 12, 2016 |
Online Publication Date | May 16, 2016 |
Publication Date | Sep 1, 2016 |
Deposit Date | Aug 15, 2016 |
Publicly Available Date | Aug 15, 2016 |
Journal | Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society: Letters |
Electronic ISSN | 1745-3933 |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Peer Reviewed | Peer Reviewed |
Volume | 461 |
Issue | 1 |
Pages | L56-L61 |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1093/mnrasl/slw101 |
Related Public URLs | http://arxiv.org/abs/1605.02770 |
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