Bozorgnia, N, Fattahi, A, Cerdeño, DG, Frenk, CS, Gómez, FA, Grand, RJJ, Marinacci, F and Pakmor, R (2019) On the correlation between the local dark matter and stellar velocities. Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, 2019 (6).

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Abstract

The dark matter velocity distribution in the Solar neighbourhood is an important astrophysical input which enters in the predicted event rate of dark matter direct detection experiments. It has been recently suggested that the local dark matter velocity distribution can be inferred from that of old or metal-poor stars in the Milky Way. We investigate this potential relation using six high resolution magneto-hydrodynamical simulations of Milky Way-like galaxies of the Auriga project. We do not find any correlation between the velocity distributions of dark matter and old stars in the Solar neighbourhood. Likewise, there are no strong correlations between the local velocity distributions of dark matter and metal-poor stars selected by applying reasonable cuts on metallicity. In some simulated galaxies, extremely metal-poor stars have a velocity distribution that is statistically consistent with that of the dark matter, but the sample of such stars is so small that we cannot draw any strong conclusions.

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	0201 Astronomical and Space Sciences; 0202 Atomic, Molecular, Nuclear, Particle and Plasma Physics; Nuclear & Particles Physics
Subjects:	Q Science > QB Astronomy Q Science > QC Physics
Divisions:	Astrophysics Research Institute
Publisher:	IOP Publishing
SWORD Depositor:	A Symplectic
Date Deposited:	19 Apr 2023 11:50
Last Modified:	19 Apr 2023 11:50
DOI or ID number:	10.1088/1475-7516/2019/06/045
URI:	https://researchonline.ljmu.ac.uk/id/eprint/19323

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