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Lovell, MR, Barnes, D, Bahé, Y, Schaye, J, Schaller, M, Theuns, T, Bose, S, Crain, RA, Vecchia, CD, Frenk, CS, Hellwing, W, Kay, ST, Ludlow, AD and Bower, RG (2019) The signal of decaying dark matter with hydrodynamical simulations. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 485 (3). pp. 4071-4089. ISSN 0035-8711
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Abstract
Dark matter particles may decay, emitting photons. Drawing on the EAGLE family of hydrodynamic simulations of galaxy formation -- including the APOSTLE and C-EAGLE simulations -- we assess the systematic uncertainties and scatter on the decay flux from different galaxy classes, from Milky Way satellites to galaxy clusters, and compare our results to studies of the 3.55~keV line. We demonstrate that previous detections and non-detections of this line are consistent with a dark matter interpretation. For example, in our simulations the width of the the dark matter decay line for Perseus-analogue galaxy clusters lies in the range 1300-1700~\kms. Therefore, the non-detection of the 3.55~keV line in the centre of the Perseus cluster by the {\it Hitomi} collaboration is consistent with detections by other instruments. We also consider trends with stellar and halo mass and evaluate the scatter in the expected fluxes arising from the anisotropic halo mass distribution and from object-to-object variations. We provide specific predictions for observations with {\it XMM-Newton} and with the planned X-ray telescopes {\it XRISM} and {\it ATHENA}. If future detections of unexplained X-ray lines match our predictions, including line widths, we will have strong evidence that we have discovered the dark matter.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Additional Information: | This article has been accepted for publication in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society ©: 2019 The Authors Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Royal Astronomical Society. All rights reserved. |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | astro-ph.CO; astro-ph.CO; astro-ph.GA; hep-ph |
| Subjects: | Q Science > QB Astronomy Q Science > QC Physics |
| Divisions: | Astrophysics Research Institute |
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press |
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| Date Deposited: | 19 Mar 2019 10:49 |
| Last Modified: | 04 Sep 2021 09:36 |
| DOI or ID number: | 10.1093/mnras/stz691 |
| URI: | https://researchonline.ljmu.ac.uk/id/eprint/10365 |
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