We present an analysis of Murchison Widefield Array radio telescope data from ω Cen, possibly a stripped dwarf spheroidal galaxy core captured by our Galaxy. Recent interpretations of Fermi-LAT γ-ray data by Brown {\it et al.} (2019) and Reynoso-Cordova {\it et al.} (2019) suggest that ω 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 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.
@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}
}
Comments
Accepted in Physics of the Dark Universe, 7 pages, 4 figures, 1 table