Stellar and dark matter caustics: are both visible?

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Apr 2008

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2008aps..apr.k1011s&link_type=abstract

American Physical Society, 2008 APS April Meeting and HEDP/HEDLA Meeting, April 11-15, 2008, abstract #K1.011

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Dark matter caustics formed by galaxy mergers can substantially enhance the local density of dark matter, and even more substantially enhance the gamma-ray flux from WIMP annihilations in those caustics, in some cases by several orders of magnitude. This effect raises the possibility that a high-energy gamma ray detector, such as GLAST, may be able to detect annihilation signals from extragalactic caustics. I calculate the annihilation flux for two cases where caustics are already known to exist from stellar morphology and kinematics: the classic shell galaxy NGC3293 and the shell in the Andromeda galaxy (M31) recently discovered by Fardal et al.

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