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Oscar Agertz

Associate Professor / Senior university lecturer / Wallenberg Academy Fellow

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A dark matter disc in the milky way

Author

  • J. I. Read
  • T. Bruch
  • L. Baudis
  • V. P. Debattista
  • O. Agertz
  • L. Mayer
  • A. M. Brooks
  • F. Governato
  • A. H.G. Peter
  • G. Lake

Summary, in English

Dark matter direct detection experiments need to know the local phase space density of dark matter fdm(r,v,t) in order to derive dark matter particle properties. To date, calculations for fdm(r,v,t) have been based on simulations that model the dark matter alone. Here we include the influence of the baryonic matter. We find that a star/gas disc at high redshift (z∼1) causes merging satellites to be preferentially dragged towards the disc plane. This results in an accreted dark matter disc that contributes ∼0.25-1 times the non-rotating halo density at the Solar position. We discuss the impact of the dark disc on dark matter direct detection experiments, and how we might be able to detect it in future Galactic surveys.

Publishing year

2010-01-01

Language

English

Pages

391-394

Publication/Series

Hunting for the Dark : The Hidden Side of Galaxy Formation - Proceedings of the International Conference

Volume

1240

Document type

Conference paper

Publisher

American Institute of Physics (AIP)

Conference name

International Conference "Hunting for the Dark: The Hidden Side of Galaxy Formation"

Conference date

2009-10-19 - 2009-10-23

Conference place

Qawra, Malta

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISBN: 9780735407862