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暗物质热核超新星点燃

高能天体物理现象 2022-03-22 v4

摘要

我们利用224个低红移事件的公开存档数据,研究暗物质(DM)对热核超新星(SNe Ia)的局部环境效应,以期阐明SNe Ia前身星系统。SNe Ia是碳-氧(CO)白矮星(WDs)的爆发,近期已表明其在亚钱德拉塞卡质量下爆炸;然而点燃机制仍未知。近来有研究表明,弱相互作用大质量粒子(WIMPs)与原始黑洞(PBHs)等宏观DM候选者均能够触发点燃。本文中,我们提出一种估算SN Ia事件及附近WDs附近DM密度与速度弥散的方法;我们主张:(i)WIMP点燃极不可能发生,且(ii)以峰值log10(m0/1\log_{10}(m_0/1g)=24.9±0.9)=24.9\pm 0.9、宽度σ=3.3±1.0\sigma= 3.3\pm 1.0的(准)对数正态质量分布分布的PBH形式DM与SN Ia数据、附近WD种群一致,且大致与文献中其他约束相容。

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引用

@article{arxiv.1912.12417,
  title  = {Dark Matter Thermonuclear Supernova Ignition},
  author = {Heinrich Steigerwald and Stefano Profumo and Davi Rodrigues and Valerio Marra},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1912.12417},
  year   = {2022}
}

备注

The ignition mechanisms presented in this article had to be revisited. We have done this both for primordial black holes (arXiv:2104.07066) and for asymmetric dark matter (arXiv:2203.09054); the data analysis is presented in a new paper (arXiv:2112.09739)