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Dark matter in the Solar System. III. The distribution function of WIMPs at the Earth from gravitational capture

Dark matter in the Solar System. III. The distribution function of WIMPs at the Earth from gravitational capture

In this last paper in a series of three on weakly interacting massive particle (WIMP) dark matter in the Solar System, we focus on WIMPs bound to the system by gravitationally scattering off of planets. We present simulations of WIMP orbits in a toy solar system consisting of only the …