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Dark Matter distinguished by skewed microlensing in the 'Dragon Arc'
| العنوان: | Dark Matter distinguished by skewed microlensing in the 'Dragon Arc' |
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| المؤلفون: | Broadhurst, Tom, Li, Sung Kei, Alfred, Amruth, Diego, Jose M., Morilla, Paloma, Kelly, Patrick L., Sun, Fengwu, Oguri, Masamune, Williams, Hayley, Windhorst, Rogier, Zitrin, Adi, Abe, Katsuya T., Chen, Wenlei, Fudamoto, Yoshinobu, Kawai, Hiroki, Lim, Jeremy, Liu, Tao, Meena, Ashish K., Palencia, Jose M., Smoot, George F., Williams, Liliya L. R. |
| سنة النشر: | 2024 |
| المجموعة: | Astrophysics |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics |
| الوصف: | Microlensed stars recently discovered by JWST & HST follow closely the winding critical curve of A370 along all sections of the ``Dragon Arc" traversed by the critical curve. These transients are fainter than $m_{AB}>26.5$, corresponding to the Asymptotic Giant Branch (AGB) and microlensed by diffuse cluster stars observed with $\simeq 18M_\odot/pc^2$, or about $\simeq 1$\% of the projected dark matter density. Most microlensed stars appear along the inner edge of the critical curve, following an asymmetric band of width $\simeq 4$kpc that is skewed by $-0.7\pm0.2$kpc. Some skewness is expected as the most magnified images should form along the inner edge of the critical curve with negative parity, but the predicted shift is small $\simeq -0.04$kpc and the band of predicted detections is narrow, $\simeq 1.4$kpc. Adding CDM-like dark halos of $10^{6-8}M_\odot$ broadens the band as desired but favours detections along the outer edge of the critical curve, in the wrong direction, where sub-halos generate local Einstein rings. Instead, the interference inherent to ``Wave Dark Matter" as a Bose-Einstein condensate ($\psi$DM) forms a symmetric band of critical curves that favours negative parity detections. A de Broglie wavelength of $\simeq 10$pc matches well the observed $4$kpc band of microlenses and predicts negative skewness $\simeq -0.6$kpc, similar to the data. The implied corresponding boson mass is $\simeq 10^{-22}$eV, in good agreement with estimates from dwarf galaxy cores when scaled by momentum. Further JWST imaging may reveal the pattern of critical curves by simply ``joining the dots" between microlensed stars, allowing wave corrugations of $\psi$DM to be distinguished from CDM sub-halos Comment: 12 pages, 5 figures |
| نوع الوثيقة: | Working Paper |
| URL الوصول: | http://arxiv.org/abs/2405.19422 |
| رقم الأكسشن: | edsarx.2405.19422 |
| قاعدة البيانات: | arXiv |
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