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As the hunt for dark matter progresses, recently there have been advances in the search for heavy dark matter with a mass well above a TeV. We show the importance of properly modeling the local dark matter velocity distribution, beyond the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-02-27 Nassim Bozorgnia , Joseph Bramante , Andrew Buchanan

We show that a Magellanic Cloud origin for the warp of the Milky Way can explain most quantitative features of the outer HI layer recently identified by Levine, Blitz & Heiles (2005). We construct a model similar to that of Weinberg (1998)…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Martin D. Weinberg , Leo Blitz

We investigate how the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) impacts the predicted signals in near-future direct detection experiments for non-standard dark matter (DM) interactions, using the Auriga cosmological simulations. We extract the local DM…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-09-17 Javier Reynoso-Cordova , Nassim Bozorgnia , Marie-Cécile Piro

We assess how much unused strong lensing information is available in the deep \emph{Hubble Space Telescope} imaging and VLT/MUSE spectroscopy of the \emph{Frontier Field} clusters. As a pilot study, we analyse galaxy cluster…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-04-25 M. Jauzac , D. Harvey , R. Massey

It has been shown by Paczy\'nski that gravitational microlensing is potentially a useful method for detecting the dark constituents of the halo of our galaxy, if their mass lies in the approximate domain $10^{-6} < M/M_{\odot} < 10^{-1}$.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-02-03 Philippe Jetzer

Cosmological N--body simulations have revealed a remarkable similarity in the structure of dark matter halos formed in hierarchically clustering universes. Regardless of halo mass, cosmological parameters, and power spectrum of initial…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Julio F. Navarro

We use high resolution numerical simulations of the formation of cold dark matter halos to simulate the background of decay products from neutralino annihilation, such as gamma-rays or neutrinos. Halos are non-spherical, have steep singular…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Carlos Calcaneo-Roldan , Ben Moore

The detection of non-baryonic dark matter through its gamma-ray annihilation in the centre of our galaxy has been studied. The gamma fluxes according to different models have been simulated and compared to those expected to be observed with…

We present the first detailed assessment of the large-scale rotation of any galaxy based on full three-dimensional velocity measurements. We do this for the LMC by combining our HST average proper motion (PM) measurements for stars in 22…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 Roeland P. van der Marel , Nitya Kallivayalil

Our goal is to study the gravitational effects caused by the passage of the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) in its orbit on the stellar halo of the Milky Way (MW). We employed the Gaia Data Release 3 to construct a halo tracers data set…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-08-21 K. J. Fushimi , M. E. Mosquera , M. Dominguez

The 3D observed velocities of the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds(LMC and SMC) provide an opportunity to probe the Galactic potential in the outskirt of the Galactic halo. Based on a canonical NFW model of the Galactic potential, Besla et…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-11 Xiaojia Zhang , Douglas N. C. Lin , Andreas Burkert , Ludwig Oser

Decaying or annihilating dark matter particles could be detected through gamma-ray emission from the species they decay or annihilate into. This is usually done by modelling the flux from specific dark matter-rich objects such as the Milky…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-12-01 Deaglan J. Bartlett , Andrija Kostić , Harry Desmond , Jens Jasche , Guilhem Lavaux

We analyze the intriguing possibility to explain both dark mass components in a galaxy: the dark matter (DM) halo and the supermassive dark compact object lying at the center, by a unified approach in terms of a quasi-relaxed system of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-01-08 C. R. Argüelles , A. Krut , J. A. Rueda , R. Ruffini

We present results from a search for gravitational microlensing of stars in the Large Magellanic Cloud by low mass objects in the Galactic Halo. The search uses the CCD light curves of about 82,000 stars with up to 46 measurements per night…

We examine Milky Way-Magellanic Cloud systems selected from the Millennium-II Simulation in order to place the orbits of the Magellanic Clouds in a cosmological context. Our analysis shows that satellites massive enough to be LMC analogs…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2011-06-09 Michael Boylan-Kolchin , Gurtina Besla , Lars Hernquist

The reflex motion and distortion of the Milky Way (MW) halo caused by the infall of a massive Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) has been demonstrated to result in an excess of orbital poles of dark matter halo particles towards the LMC orbital…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-06-22 Marcel S. Pawlowski , Pierre-Antoine Oria , Salvatore Taibi , Benoit Famaey , Rodrigo Ibata

Galaxy clusters are promising targets for indirect dark matter searches. Gamma-ray signatures from the decay or annihilation of dark matter particles inside these clusters could be observable with the Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT). Based…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-05-30 Xiaoyuan Huang , Gilles Vertongen , Christoph Weniger

We investigate the dynamical and chemical evolution of the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) interacting with the Galaxy and the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC) based on a series of self-consistent chemodynamical simulations. Our numerical models…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 K. Bekki , M. Chiba

Annihilation of dark matter can result in the production of stable Standard Model particles including electrons and positrons that, in the presence of magnetic fields, lose energy via synchrotron radiation, observable as radio emission.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 Emma Storm , Tesla E. Jeltema , Stefano Profumo , Lawrence Rudnick

Cosmological N-body simulations predict that dark matter halos should have a universal shape characterized by a steep, cuspy inner profile. Here we report on a spectroscopic study of six clusters each containing a dominant brightest cluster…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-05-05 D. J. Sand , T. Treu , G. P. Smith , R. S. Ellis