Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2005-02-10
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
Comment on Zhao etal (astro-ph/0502049)
Scientific paper
Neutralino dark matter leads to the formation of numerous earth mass dark matter haloes at redshifts z\approx 60 (Diemand et al. 2005). These abundant CDM micro-haloes have cuspy density profiles that can easily withstand the Galactic tidal field at the solar radius. Zhao, Taylor, Silk & Hooper (astro-ph/0502049) concluded that ``...the majority of dark matter substructures with masses \sim 10^{-6}M_o will be tidally disrupted due to interactions with stars in the Galactic halo''. However these authors assumed a halo density of stars that is at least an order of magnitude higher than observed. We show that the appropriate application of the impulse approximation is to the regime of multiple encounters, not single disruptive events as adopted by Zhao et al., which leads to a survival time of several Hubble times. Therefore we do not expect the tidal heating by Galactic stars to affect the abundance of micro-haloes. Disk crossing will cause some mass loss but the central cores are likely to survive and could be detected as gamma-ray sources with proper motions of several arc minutes per year.
Diemand Juerg
Moore Ben
Quinn Thomas
Stadel Joachim
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