Exploring Dark Matter Bound During the Formation of the Solar System

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Abstract: We estimate the expected population density of Dark Matter bound to the solar system in a number of different limits in order to better inform direct detection searches. At Earth, we expect the population captured during the formation of the sun to be reduced by a factor of more than $10^{-4}$ from the initial background population, making it negligibly small. However, in the adiabatic limit we expect an enhancement of $10^{11}$ on the population of Dark Matter initially bound to the gas cloud which will collapse to form the sun, which could be a relevant population. The result is reproduced by treating the Dark Matter as a classical field. We expect distortions in this population during the lifetime of the Solar System due to Jupiter to be insignificant.

Type of resource	text
Date created	June 2016

Author	Robbins, Marc
Contributing author	Wiser, Timothy
Primary advisor	Graham, Peter
Advisor	Wagoner, Robert
Degree granting institution	Stanford University, Department of Physics

Location	https://purl.stanford.edu/jh447gc6070

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Preferred Citation: Robbins, Marc and Wiser, Timothy. "Exploration of Dark Matter Bound to the Solar System" (2016). http://purl.stanford.edu/jh447gc6070

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