期刊
PUBLICATIONS OF THE ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY OF JAPAN
卷 67, 期 2, 页码 -出版社
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/pasj/psu156
关键词
dark matter; galaxies: clusters: individual (Abell 426, Perseus); X-rays: galaxies: clusters
资金
- MEXT [24540243, 25105516]
- Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research [25870744, 24540243, 25105516, 15K21679, 26220703, 25247028] Funding Source: KAKEN
We present the results from deep Suzaku observations of the central region of the Perseus cluster. Bulbul et al. (2014, ApJ, 789, 13) reported the detection by XMM-Newton instruments of an unidentified X-ray emission line at an energy around 3.5 keV in spectra for the Perseus and other clusters. They argued for a possibility of the decay of sterile neutrino, a dark matter candidate. We examine Suzaku X-ray Imaging Spectrometer (XIS) spectra of the Perseus cluster for evidence in the 3.5 keV line and other possible dark matter features in the 2-6 keV energy band. In order to search for and constrain a weak line feature with the XIS, observations of the Crab Nebula are used to evaluate the system's effective area. We found no line feature at the claimed position with a systematic line flux upper limit at a half (1.5 eV in line equivalent width) of the claimed best-fitting value by Bulbul et al. (2014). We discuss this inconsistency in terms of instrumental calibration errors and modeling of continuum emission. Future prospects for high-energy resolution spectroscopy with ASTRO-H are presented.
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