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Dark matter annihilation in $\omega$ Centauri: Astrophysical implications derived from the MWA radio data

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena 2020-07-20 v2 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

Abstract

We present an analysis of Murchison Widefield Array radio telescope data from ω\omega Cen, possibly a stripped dwarf spheroidal galaxy core captured by our Galaxy. Recent interpretations of Fermi-LAT γ\gamma-ray data by Brown {\it et al.} (2019) and Reynoso-Cordova {\it et al.} (2019) suggest that ω\omega Cen may contain significant Dark Matter. We utilise their best-fit Dark Matter annihilation models, and an estimate of the magnetic field strength in ω\omega Cen, to calculate the expected radio synchrotron signal from annihilation, and show that one can usefully rule out significant parts of the magnetic field - diffusion coefficient plane using our current observational limits on the radio emission. Improvement by a factor of 10-100 on these limits could constrain the models even more tightly.

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@article{arxiv.2005.11962,
  title  = {Dark matter annihilation in $\omega$ Centauri: Astrophysical implications derived from the MWA radio data},
  author = {Arpan Kar and Biswarup Mukhopadhyaya and Steven Tingay and Ben McKinley and Marijke Haverkorn and Sam McSweeney and Natasha Hurley-Walker and Sourav Mitra and Tirthankar Roy Choudhury},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2005.11962},
  year   = {2020}
}

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Accepted in Physics of the Dark Universe, 7 pages, 4 figures, 1 table