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Dwarf irregular galaxies (dIrrs), as rotationally-supported systems, have more reliable J-factor measurements than dwarf spheroidal galaxies and have received attention as targets for dark matter detection in recent years. In this paper, we…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-01-15 Yi-Fei Lü , Ben-Yang Zhu , Rong-Lan Li , Xue-Kang Guo , Tian-Ci Liu , Yong-Bo Huang , Yun-Feng Liang

This study searches for neutrino signals from 18 dwarf spheroidal galaxies (dSphs) using 10 years of publicly available muon-track data of the IceCube neutrino observatory. We apply an unbinned likelihood analysis on each of these dSphs to…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-08-16 Xue-Kang Guo , Yi-Fei Lü , Yong-Bo Huang , Rong-Lan Li , Ben-Yang Zhu , Yun-Feng Liang

Some extensions of standard particle physics postulate that dark matter may be partially composed of weakly interacting sterile neutrino particles that have so far eluded detection. We use a short (~5 ks) archival X-ray observation of Segue…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-20 N. Mirabal

All presently known stellar-dynamical constraints on the size and mass of the supermassive compact dark object at the Galactic center are consistent with a ball of self-gravitating, nearly non-interacting, degenerate fermions with mass…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Neven Bilic , Gary B. Tupper , Raoul D. Viollier

In the indirect detection of dark matter through its annihilation products, the signals depend on the square of the dark matter density, making precise knowledge of the distribution of dark matter in the Universe critical for robust…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Hasan Yuksel , Shunsaku Horiuchi , John F. Beacom , Shin'ichiro Ando

We derive an accurate mass estimator for dispersion-supported stellar systems and demonstrate its validity by analyzing resolved line-of-sight velocity data for globular clusters, dwarf galaxies, and elliptical galaxies. Specifically, by…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 Joe Wolf , Gregory D. Martinez , James S. Bullock , Manoj Kaplinghat , Marla Geha , Ricardo R. Munoz , Joshua D. Simon , Frank F. Avedo

We explore the range of parameters for dark-matter sterile neutrinos in an extention of the Minimal Standard Model by three singlet fermions with masses below the electroweak scale (the $\nu$MSM). This simple model can explain a wide range…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 Takehiko Asaka , Mikhail Shaposhnikov , Alexander Kusenko

The structure and dark matter halo core properties of dwarf spheroidal galaxies (dSphs) are investigated. A double-isothermal model of an isothermal stellar system, embedded in an isothermal dark halo core provides an excellent fit to the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-23 Andreas Burkert

We constrain the parameters of a self-interacting massive dark matter scalar particle in a condensate using the kinematics of the eight brightest dwarf spheroidal satellites of the Milky Way. For the case of a repulsive self-interaction the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2014-09-10 Alberto Diez-Tejedor , Alma X. Gonzalez-Morales , Stefano Profumo

The observed velocity dispersion of the classical dwarf spheroidal (dSph) galaxies of the Milky Way (MW) requires the Newtonian stellar mass-to-light ($M_*/L$) ratios in the range of about 10 to more than 100 solar units that are well…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-09-21 Hosein Haghi , Vahid Amiri

We use NuSTAR observations of the Galactic Center to search for X-ray lines from the radiative decay of sterile neutrino dark matter. Finding no evidence of unknown lines, we set limits on the sterile neutrino mass and mixing angle. In most…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-06-14 Kerstin Perez , Kenny C. Y. Ng , John F. Beacom , Cora Hersh , Shunsaku Horiuchi , Roman Krivonos

We use cosmological hydrodynamical simulations of the APOSTLE project along with high-quality rotation curve observations to examine the fraction of baryons in {\Lambda}CDM haloes that collect into galaxies. This 'galaxy formation…

We present stellar radial velocity data for the Draco dwarf spheroidal galaxy obtained using the AF2/WYFFOS instrument combination on the William Herschel Telescope. Our dataset consists of 186 member stars, 159 of which have good quality…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 J. T. Kleyna , M. I. Wilkinson , N. W. Evans , G. Gilmore

Warm Dark Matter (WDM) has been invoked to resolve apparent conflicts of Cold Dark Matter (CDM) models with observations on subgalactic scales. In this work we provide a new and independent lower limit for the WDM particle mass (e.g.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 M. Miranda , A. V. Macciò

We present a particle physics realization of a recent suggestion by Spergel and Steinhardt that collisional but dissipationless dark matter may resolve the core density problem in dark matter-dominated galaxies such as the dwarf galaxies.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Rabindra N. Mohapatra , Vigdor L. Teplitz

The dwarf spheroidal galaxies (dSphs) in the Milky Way are the primary targets in the indirect searches for particle dark matter. To set robust constraints on candidate of dark matter particles, understanding the dark halo structure of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-08-05 Kohei Hayashi , Koji Ichikawa , Shigeki Matsumoto , Masahiro Ibe , Miho N. Ishigaki , Hajime Sugai

There has been a vast recent improvement in photometric and kinematic data for star clusters, Ultra Compact dwarfs, galactic nuclei, and local dSph galaxies, with Subaru contributing substantially to the photometric studies in particular.…

Sterile neutrino dark matter is expected to suppress structure formation at small astrophysical scales. The details of the suppression depend on the sterile neutrino production mechanism in the early universe. In this proceeding, we focus…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-04-07 Aurel Schneider

We use observations of ultra-faint dwarf (UFD) galaxies to constrain the particle mass of ultra-light dark matter. Potential fluctuations created by wave interference in virialized "fuzzy" dark matter (FDM) halos dynamically heat stellar…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-03-22 Neal Dalal , Andrey Kravtsov