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Evaporating the Milky Way halo and its satellites with inelastic self-interacting dark matter

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Vogelsberger, Mark; Zavala, Jesús; Schutz, Katelin; Slatyer, Tracy Robyn
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Self-interacting dark matter provides a promising alternative for the cold dark matter paradigm to solve potential small-scale galaxy formation problems. Nearly all self-interacting dark matter simulations so far have considered only elastic collisions. Here we present simulations of a galactic halo within a generic inelastic model using a novel numerical implementation in the arepo code to study arbitrary multistate inelastic dark matter scenarios. For this model we find that inelastic self-interactions can: (i) create larger subhalo density cores compared to elastic models for the same cross-section normalization; (ii) lower the abundance of satellites without the need for a power spectrum cut-off; (iii) reduce the total halo mass by about 10 per cent⁠; (iv) inject the energy equivalent of O(100) million Type II supernovae in galactic haloes through level de-excitation; (v) avoid the gravothermal catastrophe due to removal of particles from halo centres. We conclude that a ∼5 times larger elastic cross-section is required to achieve the same central density reduction as the inelastic model. This implies that well-established constraints on self-interacting cross-sections have to be revised if inelastic collisions are the dominant mode. In this case significantly smaller cross-sections can achieve the same core density reduction thereby increasing the parameter space of allowed models considerably. normalisation; (ii) lower the abundance of satellites without the need for a power spectrum cutoff; (iii) reduce the total halo mass by about 10%; (iv) inject the energy equivalent of O(100) million Type II supernovae in galactic haloes through level de-excitation; (v) avoid the gravothermal catastrophe due to removal of particles from halo centers. We conclude that a ~5 times larger elastic cross section is required to achieve the same central density reduction as the inelastic model. This implies that well-established constraints on self-interacting cross sections have to be revised if inelastic collisions are the dominant mode. In this case significantly smaller cross sections can achieve the same core density reduction thereby increasing the parameter space of allowed models considerably.
Date issued
2019-02
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https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/127821
Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics; Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Center for Theoretical Physics; MIT Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research
Journal
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Publisher
Oxford University Press (OUP)
Citation
Vogelsberger, Mark et al. "Evaporating the Milky Way halo and its satellites with inelastic self-interacting dark matter." Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (February 2019): 5437–5452 © 2018 The Authors
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0035-8711
1365-2966

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