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The Dark Matter halo of the Milky Way, AD 2013

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Nesti, Fabrizio, Salucci, Paolo·2013·Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics
DOI 10.1088/1475-7516/2013/07/016
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We derive the mass model of the Milky Way (MW), crucial for Dark Matter (DM) direct and indirect detection, using recent data and a cored dark matter (DM) halo profile, which is favoured by studies of external galaxies. The method used consists in fitting a spherically symmetric model of the Galaxy with a Burkert DM halo profile to available data: MW terminal velocities in the region inside the solar circle, circular velocity as recently estimated from maser star forming regions at intermediate radii, and velocity dispersions of stellar halo tracers for the outermost Galactic region. The latter are reproduced by integrating the Jeans equation for every modeled mass distribution, and by allowing for different velocity anisotropies for different tracer populations. For comparison we also consider a Navarro-Frenk-White profile. We find that the cored profile is the preferred one, with a shallow central density of ρ H ∼ 4 × 10 7 M ☉ /kpc 3 and a large core radius R H ∼ 10 kpc, as observed in external spirals and in agreement with the mass model underlying the Universal Rotation Curve of spirals. We describe also the derived model uncertainties, which are crucially driven by the poorly constrained velocity dispersion anisotropies of halo tracers. The emerging cored DM distribution has implications for the DM annihilation angular profile, which is much less boosted in the Galactic center direction with respect to the case of the standard ΛCDM, NFW profile. Using the derived uncertainties we discuss finally the limitations and prospects to discriminate between cored and cusped DM profile with a possible observed diffuse DM annihilation signal. The present mass model aims to characterize the present-day description of the distribution of matter in our Galaxy, which is needed to frame current crucial issues of Cosmology, Astrophysics and Elementary Particles.

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Authors
Nesti, F., & Salucci, P.
Venue
Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics
Publisher
IOP Publishing
Published
2013-07-11
Volume
2013
Issue
07
Pages
016-016
ISSN
  • 1475-7508 (ISSN-L)
  • 1475-7516
DOI
10.1088/1475-7516/2013/07/016
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Language
en
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