Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2006-10-16
Phys.Rev. D75 (2007) 043517
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
11 pages, uses revtex4
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevD.75.043517
We show that the presence of a rho~1/r^{3/2} dark matter overdensity can be robustly predicted at the center of any galaxy old enough to have grown a power-law density cusp in the stars via the Bahcall-Wolf mechanism. Using both Fokker-Planck and direct N-body integrations, we demonstrate collisional generation of these dark matter "crests" (Collisionally REgenerated STtructures) even in the extreme case that the density of both stars and dark matter were previously lowered by slingshot ejection from a binary supermassive black hole. The time scale for collisional growth of the crest is approximately the two-body relaxation time as defined by the stars, which is < 10 Gyr at the centers of stellar spheroids with luminosities comparable to that of the Milky Way bulge or less. The presence of crests can robustly be predicted in such galaxies, unlike the steeper enhancements, called "spikes," produced by the adiabatic growth of black holes. We discuss special cases where the prospects for detecting dark matter annihilations from the centers of galaxy haloes are significantly affected by the formation of crests.
Bertone Gianfranco
Harfst Stefan
Merritt David
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