XMM-Newton Large Programme Details



PROPOSAL OVERVIEW
Proposal Title Probing the Dark Matter Nature of the 3.5 keV Line with Draco
Proposal Category Galaxies, Groups of Galaxies, Clusters of Galaxies and Superclusters
Proposal Type VERY LARGE PROGRAM
Proposal Id 76480
Number of Observations 1
Total exposure time (ks) 1378

PI DETAILS
PI Prof Alexey Boyarsky
Institute Leiden University
Country NETHERLANDS

CO-INVESTIGATORS
Name Country
O. Ruchayskiy SWITZERLAND
M. Markevitch UNITED STATES
D. Eckert SWITZERLAND
A. Neronov SWITZERLAND
D. Iakubovskyi UKRAINE
D. Malyshev SWITZERLAND
J. Franse NETHERLANDS
M. Walker UNITED STATES
A. Geringer-Sameth UNITED STATES
M. Lovell NETHERLANDS
G. Bertone NETHERLANDS
C. Weniger NETHERLANDS

ABSTRACT
In recent months, much excitement has been generated in the scientific community by the detection of an X-ray line at 3.5keV in galaxy clusters, M31, and the Galactic Center that is consistent with a decay product of light dark matter. It is very difficult to explain the properties of this line across all of these targets consistently with any known atomic transition line or instrumental anomaly. An important check on the nature of this signal may be obtained by observing classical dwarf spheroidals, which are strongly dark matter dominated and contain very little, if any, hot gas. We thus propose a 1.3Msec observation of the Draco dwarf galaxy, which we show to be a sufficient exposure to either detect a dark matter decay line or robustly exclude the dark matter hypothesis.

PAPERS
Authors marked in red are (co-)investigators in the proposal

Classification of papers are:
- CLASS 1:   papers that present specific XMM-Newton observations
- CLASS 2: papers that refer to published XMM-Newton results with complementary observations, follow-up analysis, or theoretical analysis
- CLASS 3: further deliveries which resulted from the program and which are made available to the community (e.g. source catalogues, processed images or spectra in public data base)
- CLASS 4: comments and suggestions from PI

CLASS 1 (18 references)
  1. " Searching for decaying dark matter in deep XMM-Newton observation of the Draco dwarf spheroidal "
    Ruchayskiy, Oleg; Boyarsky, Alexey; Iakubovskyi, Dmytro; Bulbul, Esra; Eckert, Dominique; Franse, Jeroen; Malyshev, Denys; Markevitch, Maxim; Neronov, Andrii;
    2016 - Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 460, Issue 2, p.1390-1398
    Number of Citations: 54
    https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/search/q=bibcode:2016MNRAS.460.1390R
    DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stw1026

  2. " The Million Optical - Radio/X-ray Associations (MORX) Catalogue "
    Flesch, Eric W.;
    2016 - Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia, Volume 33, id.e052 pp.
    Number of Citations: 17
    https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/search/q=bibcode:2016PASA...33...52F
    DOI: 10.1017/pasa.2016.44

  3. " Hunting dark matter with X-rays "
    Franse, Jeroen;
    2016 - PhD Thesis, Leiden University, 2016
    Number of Citations: 0
    https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/search/q=bibcode:2016PhDT.......148F
    DOI: null

  4. " Probing the nature of dark matter with deep XMM-Newton observations of the dwarf spheroidal galaxies "
    Boyarsky, A.; Ruchayskiy, O.;
    2017 - Astronomische Nachrichten, Volume 338, Issue 287, pp. 287-292
    Number of Citations: 0
    https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/search/q=bibcode:2017AN....338..287B
    DOI: 10.1002/asna.201713344

  5. " Scalar field dark matter with spontaneous symmetry breaking and the 3.5 keV line "
    Cosme, Catarina; Rosa, Joao G.; Bertolami, O.;
    2018 - Physics Letters B, Volume 781, p. 639-644.
    Number of Citations: 14
    https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/search/q=bibcode:2018PhLB..781..639C
    DOI: 10.1016/j.physletb.2018.04.062

  6. " XMM-Newton study of the supersoft symbiotic system Draco C1 "
    Saeedi, Sara; Sasaki, Manami; Ducci, Lorenzo;
    2018 - Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 473, Issue 1, p.440-446
    Number of Citations: 2
    https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/search/q=bibcode:2018MNRAS.473..440S
    DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stx2354

  7. " Classification of low-luminosity stellar X-ray sources in the field of the Draco dwarf spheroidal galaxy "
    Saeedi, Sara; Sasaki, Manami; Stelzer, Beate; Ducci, Lorenzo;
    2019 - Astronomy & Astrophysics, Volume 627, id.A128, pp.
    Number of Citations: 1
    https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/search/q=bibcode:2019A&A...627A.128S
    DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/201834983

  8. " Geometry of the Draco C1 Symbiotic Binary "
    Lewis, Hannah M.; Anguiano, Borja; Stassun, Keivan G.; Majewski, Steven R.; Arras, Phil; Sarazin, Craig L.; Li, Zhi-Yun; De Lee, Nathan; Troup, Nicholas W.; Allende Prieto, Carlos; Badenes, Carles; Cunha, Katia; Garcia-Hernandez, D. A.; Nidever, David L.; Palicio, Pedro A.; Simon, Joshua D.; Smith, Verne V.;
    2020 - The Astrophysical Journal Letters, Volume 900, Issue 2, id.L43, pp.
    Number of Citations: 0
    https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/search/q=bibcode:2020ApJ...900L..43L
    DOI: 10.3847/2041-8213/abb248

  9. " Classification of 4XMM-DR9 sources by machine learning "
    Zhang, Yanxia; Zhao, Yongheng; Wu, Xue-Bing;
    2021 - Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 503, Issue 4, pp.5263-5273
    Number of Citations: 0
    https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/search/q=bibcode:2021MNRAS.503.5263Z
    DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stab744

  10. " Search for primordial black hole dark matter with x-ray spectroscopic and imaging satellite experiments and prospects for future satellite missions "
    Malyshev, Denys; Moulin, Emmanuel; Santangelo, Andrea;
    2022 - Physical Review D, Volume 106, Issue 12, article id.123020
    Number of Citations: 0
    https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/search/q=bibcode:2022PhRvD.106l3020M
    DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.106.123020

  11. " New 511 keV Line Data Provide Strongest sub-GeV Dark Matter Constraints "
    De la Torre Luque, Pedro; Balaji, Shyam; Silk, Joseph;
    2024 - The Astrophysical Journal Letters, Volume 973, Issue 1, id.L6, 10 pp.
    Number of Citations: 2
    https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/search/q=bibcode:2024ApJ...973L...6D
    DOI: 10.3847/1538-3881/ad6d60

  12. " The XMM-Newton Line Emission Analysis Program (X-LEAP). I. Emission-line Survey of O VII, O VIII, and Fe L-shell Transitions "
    Pan, Zeyang; Qu, Zhijie; Bregman, Joel N.; Liu, Jifeng;
    2024 - The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series, Volume 271, Issue 2, id.62, 18 pp.
    Number of Citations: 1
    https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/search/q=bibcode:2024ApJS..271...62P
    DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stad3885

  13. " From Active Stars to Black Holes: A Discovery Tool for Galactic X-Ray Sources "
    Rodriguez, Antonio C.;
    2024 - Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, Volume 136, Issue 5, id.054201, 17 pp.
    Number of Citations: 0
    https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/search/q=bibcode:2024PASP..136e4201R
    DOI: 10.1088/1538-3873/ad357c

  14. " Robust constraints on feebly interacting particles using XMM-Newton "
    Luque, Pedro De la Torre; Balaji, Shyam; Carenza, Pierluca;
    2024 - Physical Review D, Volume 109, Issue 10, article id.L101305
    Number of Citations: 1
    https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/search/q=bibcode:2024PhRvD.109j1305L
    DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stae1215

  15. " Multimessenger search for electrophilic feebly interacting particles from supernovae "
    Luque, Pedro De la Torre; Balaji, Shyam; Carenza, Pierluca;
    2024 - Physical Review D, Volume 109, Issue 10, article id.103028
    Number of Citations: 2
    https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/search/q=bibcode:2024PhRvD.109j3028L
    DOI: 10.1093/mnrasl/slae038

  16. " Importance of Cosmic-Ray Propagation on Sub-GeV Dark Matter Constraints "
    De la Torre Luque, Pedro; Balaji, Shyam; Koechler, Jordan;
    2024 - The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 968, Issue 1, id.46, 16 pp.
    Number of Citations: 2
    https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/search/q=bibcode:2024ApJ...968...46D
    DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/ad4494

  17. " Probing ultralight primordial black hole dark matter with XMM telescopes "
    Guo, Jun; Yuan, Qiang; Zhu, Bin;
    2024 - Nuclear Physics, Section B, Volume 1005, id.116601
    Number of Citations: 0
    https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/search/q=bibcode:2024NuPhB100516601G
    DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.2311.07661

  18. " Search for Young Stellar Objects within 4XMM-DR13 Using CatBoost and SPE "
    Ma, Xiangyao; Zhang, Yanxia; Zhang, Jingyi; Li, Changhua; Kang, Zihan; Li, Ji;
    2024 - The Astronomical Journal, Volume 168, Issue 5, id.210, 10 pp.
    Number of Citations: 0
    https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/search/q=bibcode:2024AJ....168..210M
    DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/ad6e81