Are observations of the galaxy cluster A1689 consistent with a neutrino dark matter scenario?

Authors
Publication date 2013
Journal Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Volume | Issue number 434 | 3
Pages (from-to) 2679-2683
Organisations
  • Faculty of Science (FNWI) - Institute of Physics (IoP) - Institute for Theoretical Physics Amsterdam (ITFA)
Abstract
Recent weak and strong lensing data of the galaxy cluster A1689 are modelled by dark fermions that are quantum degenerate within some core. The gas density, deduced from X-ray observations up to 1 Mpc and obeying a cored power law, is taken as input, while the galaxy mass density is modelled. An additional dark matter tail may arise from cold or warm dark matter, axions or non-degenerate neutrinos. The fit yields that the fermions are degenerate within a 430-kpc radius. The fermion mass is a few eV and the best case involves three active plus three sterile neutrinos of equal mass, for which we deduce 1.51 ± 0.04 eV. The eV mass range will be tested in the KATRIN experiment.
Document type Article
Language English
Published at https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stt1216
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