Foreground effect on the J-factor estimation of ultrafaint dwarf spheroidal galaxies
Foreground effect on the J-factor estimation of ultrafaint dwarf spheroidal galaxies
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前景对超微弱矮椭球星系 J 因子估计的影响
DOI:
10.1093/mnras/sty1387
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发表时间:
2018
影响因子:
4.8
通讯作者:
K.
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作者:
Ichikawa;K.;Horigome;S.;Ishigaki;M. N.;Matsumoto;S.;Ibe;M.;Sugai;H.;Hayashi;K.
Dwarf spheroidal galaxies (dSphs) are promising targets for the gamma-ray dark matter (DM) search. In particular, DM annihilation signal is expected to be strong in some of the recently discovered nearby ultrafaint dSphs, which potentially give stringent constraints on theTeV weakly interacting massive particle DM. However, various non-negligible systematic uncertainties complicate the estimation of the astrophysical factors relevant for the DM search in these objects. Among them, the effects of foreground stars particularly attract attention because the contamination is unavoidable even for the future kinematical survey. In this article, we assess the effects of the foreground contamination on the astrophysicalJ-factor estimation by generating mock samples of stars in the four ultrafaint dSphs and using a model of future spectrographs. We investigate various data cuts to optimize the quality of the data and apply a likelihood analysis which takes member and foreground stellar distributions into account. We show that the foreground star contaminations in the signal region (the region of interest) and their statistical uncertainty can be estimated by interpolating the foreground star distribution in the control region where the foreground stars dominate the member stars. Such regions can be secured at future spectroscopic observations utilizing a multiple object spectrograph with a large field of view, e.g. the Prime Focus Spectrograph mounted on Subaru Telescope. The above estimation has several advantages: the data-driven estimation of the contamination makes the analysis of the astrophysical factor stable against the complicated foreground distribution. Besides, foreground contamination effect is considered in the likelihood analysis.
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