SHM${}^{++}$: A Refinement of the Standard Halo Model for Dark Matter Searches in Light of the Gaia Sausage

N. Wyn Evans, Ciaran A. J. O'Hare, Christopher McCabe

Predicting signals in experiments to directly detect dark matter (DM) requires a form for the local DM velocity distribution. Hitherto, the standard halo model (SHM), in which velo…