First study of dark matter properties with detected solar gravity modes and neutrinos

Abstract

We derive new limits on the cold dark matter properties for weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs), potentially trapped in the solar core by using for the first time the central temperature constrained by boron neutrinos and the central density constrained by the dipolar gravity modes detected with the Global Oscillations at Low Frequency/Solar Helioseismic Observatory instrument. These detections disfavor the presence of non-annihilating WIMPs for masses ≤10 GeV and spin dependent cross-sections >5 × 10 -36 cm2 in the solar core but cannot constrain WIMP annihilation models. We suggest that in the coming years helio- and asteroseismology will provide complementary probes of dark matter. © 2012. The American Astronomical Society. All rights reserved.