
What about the spacecraft flyby anomalies?
Finally, there's the association between dark matter and the spacecraft flyby anomalies I mentioned in my previous post[4]. I mentioned a paper[1] by Adler that studied whether or not spacecraft flyby anomalies might the result of interactions with dark matter. The predictions for dark matter mass from Adler's paper do not match the mass measured in the data reported from CDMS II experiment today. Adler's paper calls for a dark matter particle with a mass below 1 GeV, (look for the white asterisk in picture 1). The CDMS II data implies a particle mass of roughly 8.6 GeV. So, for now, no confirmation of any spacecraft interacting with dark matter halos.
References:
1. Adler on flyby anomalies and dark matter mass
http://dx.doi.org/10.1103%2FPhysRevD.79.023505
Adler S. (2009). Can the flyby anomaly be attributed to earth-bound dark matter?, Physical Review D, 79 (2) DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.79.023505
2. Nature blog on the WIMP data
http://blogs.nature.com/news/2013/04/another-dark-matter-sign-from-a-minnesota-mine.html
3. CMDS II paper
http://cdms.berkeley.edu/CDMSII_Si_DM_Results.pdf
4. Flyby anomalies and dark matter post
http://copaseticflow.blogspot.com/2013/04/spacecraft-flyby-anomolies.html
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