Mirror matter in the solar system: new evidence for mirror matter from Eros

Foot, R.; Mitra, Saibal

doi:10.1016/s0927-6505(03)00119-1

Astroparticle Physics

2003

DOI: 10.1016/s0927-6505(03)00119-1

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Mirror matter in the solar system: new evidence for mirror matter from Eros

R. Foot

Saibal Mitra

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“…[In contrast, the mirror dust particles stop in the Earth after a distance of L ∼ 10(10 −7 /ǫ) 2 (v i /30 km/s) 4 meters ∼ 10 meters for ǫ ∼ 10 −7 [12,6]]. Note that even though an up-down asymmetry was obtained in the experiment, the detector was not up-down symmetric, which could allow the daemon hypothesis to potentially explain the results [1].…”

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“…Interestingly, the existence of photon-mirror photon kinetic mixing allows mirror matter to explain a number of puzzling observations, including the pioneer spacecraft anomaly [8,9], anomalous meteorite events [10,11] and the unexpectedly low number of small craters on the asteroid 433 Eros [12,17]. It turns out that these explanations and other constraints [20,19] suggest that ǫ is in the range…”

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“…[12,10]. Things depend (mainly) on the following parameters: the velocity of the SB (v), the direction of its trajectory (cos θ), the SB diameter (D SB ), and the value of the fundamental parameter ǫ.…”

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“…While previous work [10,12] focussed on the impacts of fairly large objects ( 1 meter) which can potentially explain various anomalous impact events (such as the Jordan event, tunguska event etc [11]), the possible effects of small dust particle impacts on Earth was not specifically explored. In fact, the number of small mirror dust particles could potentially be quite large as collisions of large ( 1 meter) mirror space bodies with themselves and ordinary bodies will generate them within our solar system.…”

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“…The condition that small mirror dust particles pass through the atmosphere without losing their velocity is that (from Eq.22 of Ref. [12])…”

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Mitra

2003

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Slow-moving (v ∼ 15 km/s) 'dark matter particles' have allegedly been discovered in a recent experiment. We explore the possibility that these slow moving dark matter particles are small mirror matter dust particles originating from our solar system. Ways of further testing our hypothesis, including the possibility of observing these dust particles in cryogenic detectors such as NAUTILUS, are also discussed.

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“…The condition that small mirror dust particles pass through the atmosphere without losing their velocity is that (from Eq.22 of Ref. [12])…”

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Constraints on the location of a putative distant massive body in the Solar System from recent planetary data

Iorio

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We analytically work out the long-term variations caused on the motion of a planet orbiting a star by a very distant, pointlike massive object X. Apart from the semi-major axis a, all the other Keplerian osculating orbital elements experience long-term variations which are complicated functions of the orbital configurations of both the planet itself and of X. We infer constraints on the minimum distance d X at which X may exist by comparing our prediction of the long-term variation of the longitude of the perihelion to the latest empirical determinations of the corrections ˙ to the standard Newtonian/Einsteinian secular precessions of several solar system planets recently estimated by independent teams of astronomers. We obtain the following approximate lower bounds on d X for the assumed masses of X quoted in brackets: 150-200 au (Mars), 250-450 au (0.7 m ⊕ ), 3500-4500 au (4 m Jup ).

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Orbital Perturbations Due to Massive Rings

Iorio

2012

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We analytically work out the long-term orbital perturbations induced by a homogeneous circular ring of radius R r and mass m r on the motion of a test particle in the cases (I): r > R r and (II): r < R r . In order to extend the validity of our analysis to the orbital configurations of, e.g., some proposed spacecraft-based mission for fundamental physics like LISA and ASTROD, of possible annuli around the supermassive black hole in Sgr A * coming from tidal disruptions of incoming gas clouds, and to the effect of artificial space debris belts around the Earth, we do not restrict ourselves to the case in which the ring and the orbit of the perturbed particle lie just in the same plane. From the corrections ∆̟ (meas) to the standard secular perihelion precessions, recently determined by a team of astronomers for some planets of the Solar System, we infer upper bounds on m r for various putative and known annular matter distributions of natural origin (close circumsolar ring with R r = 0.02 − 0.13 au, dust ring with R r = 1 au, minor asteroids, Trans-Neptunian Objects). We find m r ≤ 1.4 × 10 −4 m ⊕ (circumsolar ring with R r = 0.02 au), m r ≤ 2.6 × 10 −6 m ⊕ (circumsolar ring with R r = 0.13 au), m r ≤ 8.8 × 10 −7 m ⊕ (ring with R r = 1 au), m r ≤ 7.3 × 10 −12 M ⊙ (asteroidal ring with R r = 2.80 au), m r ≤ 1.1×10 −11 M ⊙ (asteroidal ring with R r = 3.14 au), m r ≤ 2.0×10 −8 M ⊙ (TNOs ring with R r = 43 au). In principle, our analysis is valid both for baryonic and nonbaryonic Dark Matter distributions.

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Mirror matter in the solar system: new evidence for mirror matter from Eros

Cited by 30 publications

References 37 publications

Have mirror micrometeorites been detected?

Have mirror micrometeorites been detected?

Constraints on the location of a putative distant massive body in the Solar System from recent planetary data

Orbital Perturbations Due to Massive Rings

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