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Here we investigate the possibility that some globular clusters (GCs) harbor intermediate mass black holes (BH) in their centers and are also embedded in a low-mass dark matter (DM) halo. Up to date, there is no evidence on whether or not…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-08-19 Elaine C. F. S. Fortes , Oswaldo D. Miranda , Floyd W. Stecker , Carlos A. Wuensche

Globular clusters (GCs) are among the oldest and densest stellar systems in the Universe, yet how they form remains a mystery. Here we present a suite of cosmological simulations in which both dark-matter-free GCs and dark-matter-rich dwarf…

White Dwarfs (WD) capture Dark Matter (DM) as they orbit within their host halos. These captured particles may subsequently annihilate, heating the stellar core and preventing the WD from cooling. The potential wells of WDs are considerably…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 Travis J. Hurst , Andrew R. Zentner , Aravind Natarajan , Carles Badenes

The conjecture that the ancient globular clusters (GCs) formed at the center of their own dark matter halos was first proposed by Peebles (1984), and has recently been revived to explain the puzzling abundance patterns observed within many…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-20 Charlie Conroy , Abraham Loeb , David Spergel

The origin and formation of globular clusters has remained a mystery. We present a formation scenario for ancient globular cluster-like objects that form in ultra-high resolution simulations (smallest cell size $<0.1\,\mathrm{pc}$, mass…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-10-09 Thales A. Gutcke

The central density profiles in dwarf galaxy halos depend strongly on the nature of dark matter. Recently, in Malhan et al. (2021), we employed N-body simulations to show that the cuspy cold dark matter (CDM) subhalos predicted by…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-01-04 Khyati Malhan , Monica Valluri , Katherine Freese , Rodrigo A. Ibata

The Fermi Large Area Telescope has provided the most detailed view toward the Galactic Centre (GC) in high-energy gamma rays. Besides the interstellar emission and point-source contributions, the data suggest a residual diffuse gamma-ray…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-02-07 Giacomo Fragione , Fabio Antonini , Oleg Y. Gnedin

Dark matter (DM) is the most abundant material in the Universe, but has so far been detected only via its gravitational effects. Several theories suggest that pairs of DM particles can annihilate into a flash of light at gamma-ray…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-07-22 Anthony M. Brown , Richard Massey , Thomas Lacroix , Louis E. Strigari , Azadeh Fattahi , Céline Bœhm

Globular clusters (GCs) are bright objects that span a wide range of galactocentric distances, and are thus probes of the structure of dark matter (DM) haloes. In this work, we explore whether the projected radial profiles of GCs can be…

In dark matter (DM) models, the production of a gamma line (or of a "box-shaped" gamma-ray spectrum) from DM annihilation proceeds in general from a loop diagram involving a heavy charged particle. If the charged particle in the loop…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-05 Xiaoyong Chu , Thomas Hambye , Tiziana Scarna , Michel H. G. Tytgat

Massive objects (clumps) of Cold Dark Matter (CDM) in Galaxy can appear due to its annihilation as discrete sources of gamma-radiation. Some number of unidentified regular gamma-sources, observed by EGRET, can be accounted for by massive…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 K. M. Belotsky , A. M. Galper

Recent observations have revealed that at least 8 globular clusters (GCs) in the Galaxy show internal abundance spreads in [Fe/H]. We investigate the origin of these `anomalous' GCs using numerical simulations of GCs in the dwarfs orbiting…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-08-30 Kenji Bekki , Takuji Tsujimoto

We discuss the possibility of identification of point-like gamma-ray sources (PGS) with small scale dark matter (DM) clumps in our Galaxy. Gamma-rays are supposed to originate from annihilation of DM particles in the clumps, where…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-04-09 K. M. Belotsky , A. A. Kirillov , M. Yu. Khlopov

The steepness of the central density profiles of dark matter (DM) in low-mass galaxy halos (e.g. dwarf galaxies) is a powerful probe of the nature of DM. We propose a novel scheme to probe the inner profiles of galaxy subhalos using stellar…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-12-17 Khyati Malhan , Monica Valluri , Katherine Freese

The existence of globular clusters (GCs) in a few satellite galaxies, and their absence in majority of dwarf galaxies, present a challenge for models attempting to understand the origins of GCs. In addition to GC presence appearing…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-05-24 Yingtian Chen , Oleg Y. Gnedin

Annihilating dark matter (DM) has been discussed as a possible source of gamma-rays from the galactic center (GC) and contributing to the extragalactic gamma-ray background (EGB). Assuming universality of the density profile of DM halos, we…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Shin'ichiro Ando

Globular clusters (GCs) are often used to estimate the dark matter content of galaxies, especially dwarfs, where other kinematic tracers are lacking. These estimates typically assume spherical symmetry and dynamical equilibrium, assumptions…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-02-17 Jessica E. Doppel , Laura V. Sales , Julio F. Navarro , Mario G. Abadi , Eric W. Peng , Elisa Toloba

We show that hard encounters in the central regions of globular clusters embedded in dark matter (DM) haloes necessarily lead to the formation of gravitationally-bound stellar envelopes that extend far beyond the nominal tidal radius of the…

For almost two decades the properties of "dwarf" galaxies have challenged the Cold Dark Matter (CDM) paradigm of galaxy formation. Most observed dwarf galaxies consists of a rotating stellar disc embedded in a massive DM halo with a near…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 Fabio Governato , Chris Brook , Lucio Mayer , Alyson Brooks , George Rhee , James Wadsley , Patrik Jonsson , Beth Willman , Greg Stinson , Thomas Quinn , Piero Madau

Globular clusters (GCs) with their ages of the order of several billion years contain many final products of evolution of stars such as: neutron stars, white dwarfs and probably also black holes. These compact objects can be at present…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-19 W. Bednarek
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