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Decaying dark matter: the case for a deep X-ray observation of Draco

Recent studies of M31, the Galactic Centre (GC), and galaxy clusters have made tentative detections of an X-ray line at similar to 3.5 keV that could be produced by decaying dark matter. We use high-resolution simulations of the Aquarius project to predict ...

Oxford University Press2015

Checking the Dark Matter Origin of a 3.53 keV Line with the Milky Way Center

Alexey Boyarsky, Oleg Ruchayskiy

We detect a line at 3.539 +/- 0.011 keV in the deep exposure data set of the Galactic center region, observed with the x-ray multi-mirror mission Newton. The dark matter interpretation of the signal observed in the Perseus galaxy cluster, the Andromeda gal ...

Amer Physical Soc2015

Galaxy Alignments: Theory, Modelling & Simulations

Anaïs Marie Rassat

The shapes of galaxies are not randomly oriented on the sky. During the galaxy formation and evolution process, environment has a strong influence, as tidal gravitational fields in the large-scale structure tend to align nearby galaxies. Additionally, even ...

Springer2015

Cosmology with self-interacting sterile neutrinos and dark matter: A pseudoscalar model

Short baseline neutrino oscillation experiments have shown hints of the existence of additional sterile neutrinos in the eV mass range. Such sterile neutrinos are incompatible with cosmology because they suppress structure formation unless they can be prev ...

American Physical Society2015

The Smith Cloud and its dark matter halo: survival of a Galactic disc passage

Matthew Luke Nichols

Under conservative assumptions about the Galaxy, the derived velocity of the Smith Cloud indicates that it will have undergone at least one passage of the Galactic disc. Using hydrodynamic simulations, we examine the present-day structure of the Smith Clou ...

Wiley-Blackwell2014

Planck 2013 results. XIII. Galactic CO emission

Julien Lesgourgues, Xin Chen, Fabio Finelli

Rotational transition lines of CO play a major role in molecular radio astronomy as a mass tracer and in particular in the study of star formation and Galactic structure. Although a wealth of data exists for the Galactic plane and some well-known molecular ...

Edp Sciences S A2014

Gravitational tides and dwarf spheroidal galaxies

Pascale Jablonka, Yves Revaz, Matthew Luke Nichols

The effect of the local environment on the evolution of dwarf spheroidal galaxies is poorly understood. We have undertaken a suite of simulations to investigate the tidal impact of the Milky Way on the chemodynamical evolution of dwarf spheroidals that res ...

EDP Sciences2014

Planck 2013 results. XII. Diffuse component separation

Julien Lesgourgues, Xin Chen, Fabio Finelli

Planck has produced detailed all-sky observations over nine frequency bands between 30 and 857 GHz. These observations allow robust reconstruction of the primordial cosmic microwave background (CMB) temperature fluctuations over nearly the full sky, as wel ...

Edp Sciences S A2014

Polar ring galaxies as tests of gravity

Polar ring galaxies are ideal objects with which to study the three-dimensional shapes of galactic gravitational potentials since two rotation curves can be measured in two perpendicular planes. Observational studies have uncovered systematically larger ro ...

Oxford Univ Press2013

Three quasi-stellar objects acting as strong gravitational lenses

Frédéric Courbin, Georges Meylan, Malte Tewes, François Henri Ambroise Rérat

We report the discovery of three new cases of quasi-stellar objects (QSOs) acting as strong gravitational lenses on background emission line galaxies: SDSS J0827+5224 (z(QSO) = 0.293, z(s) = 0.412), SDSS J0919+2720 (z(QSO) = 0.209, z(s) = 0.558), SDSS J100 ...

2012

Nucleosynthesis And The Inhomogeneous Chemical Evolution Of The Carina Dwarf Galaxy

Pascale Jablonka

The detailed abundances of 23 chemical elements in nine bright red giant branch stars in the Carina dwarf spheroidal galaxy are presented based on high-resolution spectra gathered at the Very Large Telescope (VLT) and Magellan telescopes. A spherical model ...

2012

Manganese evolution in Omega Centauri: a clue to the cluster formation mechanisms?

We model the evolution of manganese relative to iron in the progenitor system of the globular cluster Omega Centauri by means of a self-consistent chemical evolution model. We use stellar yields that already reproduce the measurements of [Mn/Fe] versus [Fe ...

Blackwell Publishing Ltd, Oxford2011