A Telescope Search for Decaying Relic Axions

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2006-11-15

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0611502v2

Phys.Rev.D75:105018,2007

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

14 pages, 10 figures, replaced with version published in Phys. Rev. D

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevD.75.105018

A search for optical line emission from the two-photon decay of relic axions was conducted in the galaxy clusters Abell 2667 and 2390, using spectra from the VIMOS (Visible Multi-Object Spectrograph) integral field unit at the Very Large Telescope. New upper limits to the two-photon coupling of the axion are derived, and are at least a factor of 3 more stringent than previous upper limits in this mass window. The improvement follows from larger collecting area, integration time, and spatial resolution, as well as from improvements in signal to noise and sky subtraction made possible by strong-lensing mass models of these clusters. The new limits either require that the two-photon coupling of the axion be extremely weak or that the axion mass window between 4.5 eV and 7.7 eV be closed. Implications for sterile-neutrino dark matter are discussed briefly also.

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