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Physics  2010 

Swift observation of Segue 1: constraints on sterile neutrino parameters in the darkest galaxy

DOI: 10.1111/j.1745-3933.2010.00963.x

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Some extensions of standard particle physics postulate that dark matter may be partially composed of weakly interacting sterile neutrino particles that have so far eluded detection. We use a short (~5 ks) archival X-ray observation of Segue 1 obtained with the X-ray Telescope (XRT) onboard the Swift satellite to exclude the presence of sterile neutrinos in the 1.6 - 14 keV mass range down to a flux limit of 6 x 10^{-12} erg cm-2 s-1 within 67 pc of its centre. With an estimated mass-to-light ratio of ~3400 Msun/Lsun, Segue 1 is the darkest ultrafaint dwarf galaxy currently measured. Spectral analysis of the Swift XRT data fails to find any non-instrumental spectral feature possibly connected with the radiative decay of a dark matter particle. Accordingly, we establish upper bounds on the sterile neutrino parameter space based on the non-detection of emission lines in the spectrum. The present work provides the most sensitive X-ray search for sterile neutrinos in a region with the highest dark matter density yet measured.

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