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On the correlation between the local dark matter and stellar velocities

Bozorgnia, Nassim; Fattahi, Azadeh; Cerdeño, David G.; Frenk, Carlos S.; Gómez, Facundo A.; Grand, Robert J.J.; Marinacci, Federico; Pakmor, Rüdiger

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Authors

Nassim Bozorgnia

David G. Cerdeño

Facundo A. Gómez

Robert J.J. Grand

Federico Marinacci

Rüdiger Pakmor



Abstract

The dark matter velocity distribution in the Solar neighbourhood is an important astrophysical input which enters in the predicted event rate of dark matter direct detection experiments. It has been recently suggested that the local dark matter velocity distribution can be inferred from that of old or metal-poor stars in the Milky Way. We investigate this potential relation using six high resolution magneto-hydrodynamical simulations of Milky Way-like galaxies of the Auriga project. We do not find any correlation between the velocity distributions of dark matter and old stars in the Solar neighbourhood. Likewise, there are no strong correlations between the local velocity distributions of dark matter and metal-poor stars selected by applying reasonable cuts on metallicity. In some simulated galaxies, extremely metal-poor stars have a velocity distribution that is statistically consistent with that of the dark matter, but the sample of such stars is so small that we cannot draw any strong conclusions.

Citation

Bozorgnia, N., Fattahi, A., Cerdeño, D. G., Frenk, C. S., Gómez, F. A., Grand, R. J., …Pakmor, R. (2019). On the correlation between the local dark matter and stellar velocities. Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, 2019(06), Article 045. https://doi.org/10.1088/1475-7516/2019/06/045

Journal Article Type Article
Acceptance Date Jun 11, 2019
Online Publication Date Jun 21, 2019
Publication Date Jun 30, 2019
Deposit Date Aug 1, 2019
Publicly Available Date Mar 28, 2024
Journal Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics
Publisher IOP Publishing
Peer Reviewed Peer Reviewed
Volume 2019
Issue 06
Article Number 045
DOI https://doi.org/10.1088/1475-7516/2019/06/045

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