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21-cm observations and warm dark matter models

Boyarsky, A.
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Iakubovskyi, D.
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Ruchayskiy, O.
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December 9, 2019
Physical Review D

Observations of the redshifted 21-cm signal (in absorption or emission) allow us to peek into the epoch of the "Dark Ages" and the onset of reionization. These data can provide a novel way to learn about the nature of dark matter, in particular, about the formation of small-size dark matter halos. However, the connection between the formation of structures and the 21-cm signal requires knowledge of a stellar to total mass relation, an escape fraction of UV photons, and other parameters that describe star formation and radiation at early times. This baryonic physics depends on the properties of dark matter, and in particular, in warm-dark-matter (WDM) models, star formation may follow a completely different scenario, as compared to the cold-dark-matter case. We use the recent measurements by EDGES [J. D. Bowman, A. E. E. Rogers, R. A. Monsalve, T. J. Mozdzen, and N. Mahesh, An absorption profile centred at 78 megahertz in the sky-averaged spectrum, Nature (London) 555, 67 (2018)1 to demonstrate that when taking the above considerations into account, the robust WDM bounds arc in fact weaker than those given by the Lyman-a forest method and other structure formation bounds. In particular, we show that a resonantly produced 7-keV sterile neutrino dark matter model is consistent with these data. However, a holistic approach to modeling of the WDM universe holds great potential and may, in the future, make 21-cm data our main tool to learn about DM clustering properties.

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DOI
10.1103/PhysRevD.100.123005
Web of Science ID

WOS:000501489300001

Author(s)
Boyarsky, A.
Iakubovskyi, D.
Ruchayskiy, O.
Rudakovskyi, A.
Valkenburg, W.  
Date Issued

2019-12-09

Publisher

American Physical Society

Published in
Physical Review D
Volume

100

Issue

12

Article Number

123005

Subjects

Astronomy & Astrophysics

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Physics, Particles & Fields

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Physics

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lyman-alpha forest

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power spectrum

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hydrodynamical simulations

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sterile neutrinos

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galaxy formation

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cosmic dawn

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reionization

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signal

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cosmology

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baryons

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