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Evolution of the Dark Matter Distribution at the Galactic Center

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arxiv astro-ph/0311594 v2 pith:BKCFDGM4 submitted 2003-11-26 astro-ph hep-exhep-ph

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Annihilation radiation from neutralino dark matter at the Galactic center (GC) would be greatly enhanced if the dark matter were strongly clustered around the supermassive black hole (SBH). The existence of a dark-matter "spike" is made plausible by the observed, steeply-rising stellar density near the GC SBH. Here the time-dependent equations describing gravitational interaction of the dark matter particles with the stars are solved. Scattering of dark matter particles by stars would substantially lower the dark matter density near the GC SBH over 10^10 yr, due both to kinetic heating, and to capture of dark matter particles by the SBH. This result suggests that enhancements in the dark matter density around a SBH would be modest whether or not the host galaxy had experienced the scouring effects of a binary SBH.

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