Modeling evolution of dark matter substructure and annihilation boost

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Publication date 2020
Journal Journal of Physics: Conference Series
Event 16th International Conference on Topics in Astroparticle and Underground Physics, TAUP 2019
Article number 012050
Volume | Issue number 1468
Number of pages 4
Organisations
  • Faculty of Science (FNWI) - Institute of Physics (IoP) - Institute for Theoretical Physics Amsterdam (ITFA)
Abstract

The structure of dark matter halo is hierarchical. Among them, small-scale structures in dark matter halo (so-called subhalos) can enhance dark matter annihilation signals. It is necessary to quantify boost factors by those subhalos to derive the property of dark matter with current/future gamma-ray observations. In order to derive the subhalo boost factors, calculations of halo structure covering more than 20 orders-of-magnitude in the halo mass up to a redshift of z 10 are required. This is beyond the capability of the current state-of-art cosmological N-body simulation which is a widely-adopted method to study the halo structure. In this talk, I introduce our analytical approach for the formalism of subhalo evolutions and the resultant boost factors. I show that the constraints on the annihilation cross-section obtained by isotropic γ-ray observations can be updated by several factors by taking the contribution from subhalos into account.

Document type Article
Note 16th International Conference on Topics in Astroparticle and Underground Physics (TAUP 2019) : 9-13 September 2019, Toyama, Japan
Language English
Published at https://doi.org/10.1088/1742-6596/1468/1/012050
Other links https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/85083100538
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