Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2006-08-27
Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc.375:1146-1156,2007
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
15 pages, 12 figures
Scientific paper
10.1111/j.1365-2966.2007.11400.x
A special purpose N-body simulation has been built to understand the tidal heating of the smallest dark matter substructures ($10^{-6}\msun$ and 0.01pc) from the grainy potential of the Milky Way due to individual stars in the disk and the bulge. To test the method we first run simulations of single encounters of microhalos with an isolated star, and compare with analytical predictions of the dark particle bound fraction as a function of impact parameter. We then follow the orbits of a set of microhalos in a realistic flattened Milky Way potential. We concentrate on (detectable) microhalos passing near the Sun with a range of pericenter and apocenter. Stellar perturbers near the orbital path of a microhalo would exert stochachstic impulses, which we apply in a Monte Carlo fashion according to the Besancon model for the distribution of stars of different masses and ages in our Galaxy. Also incorporated are the usual pericenter tidal heating and disk-shocking heating. We give a detailed diagnosis of typical microhalos and find microhalos with internal tangential anisotropy are slightly more robust than the ones with radial anisotropy. In addition, the dark particles generally go through of a random walk in velocity space and diffuse out of the microhalos. We show that the typical destruction time scales are strongly correlated with the stellar density averaged along a microhalo's orbit over the age of the stellar disk. We also present the morphology of a microhalo at several epochs which may hold the key to dark matter detections.
Angus Garry W.
Zhao HongSheng
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