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Constraining Dissipative Dark Matter Self-Interactions

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arxiv 1809.01144 v2 pith:VDHKYSXV submitted 2018-09-04 hep-ph astro-ph.COastro-ph.GA

Constraining Dissipative Dark Matter Self-Interactions

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We study the gravothermal evolution of dark matter halos in the presence of dissipative dark matter self-interactions. Dissipative interactions are present in many particle-physics realizations of the dark-sector paradigm and can significantly accelerate the gravothermal collapse of halos compared to purely elastic dark matter self-interactions. This is the case even when the dissipative interaction timescale is longer than the free-fall time of the halo. Using a semianalytical fluid model calibrated with isolated and cosmological $N$-body simulations, we calculate the evolution of the halo properties -- including its density profile and velocity dispersion profile -- as well as the core-collapse time as a function of the particle model parameters that describe the interactions. A key property is that the inner density profile at late times becomes cuspy again. Using 18 dwarf galaxies that exhibit a corelike dark matter density profile, we derive constraints on the strength of the dissipative interactions and the energy loss per collision.

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