The phase-space structure of a dark-matter halo: Implications for dark-matter direct detection experiments

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2002-01-17

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0201289v2

Phys.Rev.D66:063502,2002

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

13 pages, 13 figures, Phys. Rev. D in press. Postscript version with high resolution figures available from http://www.mpa-g

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevD.66.063502

We study the phase-space structure of a dark-matter halo formed in a high resolution simulation of a Lambda CDM cosmology. Our goal is to quantify how much substructure is left over from the inhomogeneous growth of the halo, and how it may affect the signal in experiments aimed at detecting the dark matter particles directly. If we focus on the equivalent of ``Solar vicinity'', we find that the dark-matter is smoothly distributed in space. The probability of detecting particles bound within dense lumps of individual mass less than 10^7 M_\sun h^{-1} is small, less than 10^{-2}. The velocity ellipsoid in the Solar neighbourhood deviates only slightly from a multivariate Gaussian, and can be thought of as a superposition of thousands of kinematically cold streams. The motions of the most energetic particles are, however, strongly clumped and highly anisotropic. We conclude that experiments may safely assume a smooth multivariate Gaussian distribution to represent the kinematics of dark-matter particles in the Solar neighbourhood. Experiments sensitive to the direction of motion of the incident particles could exploit the expected anisotropy to learn about the recent merging history of our Galaxy.

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