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Harvey, D, Chisari, NE, Robertson, A and McCarthy, IG (2021) The impact of self-interacting dark matter on the intrinsic alignments of galaxies. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 506 (1). pp. 441-451. ISSN 0035-8711
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Abstract
The formation and evolution of galaxies is known to be sensitive to tidal processes leading to intrinsic correlations between their shapes and orientations. Such correlations can be measured to high significance today, suggesting that cosmological information can be extracted from them. Among the most pressing questions in particle physics and cosmology is the nature of dark matter. If dark matter is self-interacting, it can leave an imprint on galaxy shapes. In this work, we investigate whether self interactions can produce a long-lasting imprint on intrinsic galaxy shape correlations. We investigate this observable at low redshift (z < 0.4) using a state-of-the-art suite of cosmological hydro-dynamical simulations where the dark matter model is varied. We find that dark matter self-interactions induce a mass dependent suppression in the intrinsic alignment signal by up to 50% out to tens of mega-parsecs, showing that self-interactions can impact structure outside the very core of clusters. We find evidence that self-interactions have a scale-dependent impact on the intrinsic alignment signal that is sufficiently different from signatures introduced by differing baryonic physics prescriptions, suggesting that it is detectable with up-coming all-sky surveys.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Additional Information: | This article has been accepted for publication in [Journal Title] ©: 2021 The Author(s) Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Royal Astronomical Society. All rights reserved. |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | 0201 Astronomical and Space Sciences |
| Subjects: | Q Science > QB Astronomy Q Science > QC Physics |
| Divisions: | Astrophysics Research Institute |
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press |
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| Date Deposited: | 01 Mar 2022 10:11 |
| Last Modified: | 01 Mar 2022 10:15 |
| DOI or ID number: | 10.1093/mnras/stab1741 |
| URI: | https://researchonline.ljmu.ac.uk/id/eprint/16430 |
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