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- Aartsen, M. G., et al.
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Improved limits on dark matter annihilation in the Sun with the 79-string IceCube detector and implications for supersymmetry
- 2016
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Ingår i: Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics. - : IOP Publishing. - 1475-7516. ; :4
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- We present an improved event-level likelihood formalism for including neutrino telescope data in global fits to new physics. We derive limits on spin-dependent dark matter-proton scattering by employing the new formalism in a re-analysis of data from the 79-string IceCube search for dark matter annihilation in the Sun, including explicit energy information for each event. The new analysis excludes a number of models in the weak-scale minimal supersymmetric standard model (MSSM) for the first time. This work is accompanied by the public release of the 79-string IceCube data, as well as an associated computer code for applying the new likelihood to arbitrary dark matter models.
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- Silverwood, H., et al.
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A non-parametric method for measuring the local dark matter density
- 2016
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Ingår i: Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. - : Oxford University Press (OUP). - 0035-8711 .- 1365-2966. ; 459:4, s. 4191-4208
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- We present a new method for determining the local dark matter density using kinematic data for a population of tracer stars. The Jeans equation in the z-direction is integrated to yield an equation that gives the velocity dispersion as a function of the total mass density, tracer density, and the 'tilt' term that describes the coupling of vertical and radial motions. We then fit a dark matter mass profile to tracer density and velocity dispersion data to derive credible regions on the vertical dark matter density profile. Our method avoids numerical differentiation, leading to lower numerical noise, and is able to deal with the tilt term while remaining one dimensional. In this study we present the method and perform initial tests on idealized mock data. We also demonstrate the importance of dealing with the tilt term for tracers that sample a parts per thousand(3)1 kpc above the disc plane. If ignored, this results in a systematic underestimation of the dark matter density.
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- Sivertsson, Sofia, et al.
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The local dark matter density from SDSS-SEGUE G-dwarfs
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Ingår i: Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. - : Oxford University Press (OUP). - 0035-8711 .- 1365-2966. ; 478:2, s. 1677-1693
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- We derive the local dark matter density by applying the integrated Jeans equation method from Silverwood et al. to SDSS-SEGUE G-dwarf data processed and presented by Budenbender et al. We use the MULTINEST Bayesian nested sampling software to fit a model for the baryon distribution, dark matter, and tracer stars, including a model for the 'tilt term' that couples the vertical and radial motions, to the data. The alpha-young population from Budenbender et al. yields the most reliable result of rho(dm) = 0.46(-0.08)(+ 0.07) GeV cm(-3) = 0.012(-0.002)(+ 0.002) M-circle dot pc(-3). Our analyses yield inconsistent results for the alpha-young and alpha-old data, pointing to problems in the tilt term and its modelling, the data itself, the assumption of a flat rotation curve, or the effects of disequilibria.
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