Ändra sökning
RefereraExporteraLänk till posten
Permanent länk

Direktlänk
Referera
Referensformat
  • apa
  • ieee
  • modern-language-association-8th-edition
  • vancouver
  • Annat format
Fler format
Språk
  • de-DE
  • en-GB
  • en-US
  • fi-FI
  • nn-NO
  • nn-NB
  • sv-SE
  • Annat språk
Fler språk
Utmatningsformat
  • html
  • text
  • asciidoc
  • rtf
Fuzzy dark matter at cosmic dawn: new 21-cm constraints
Stockholms universitet, Naturvetenskapliga fakulteten, Institutionen för astronomi.
Stockholms universitet, Naturvetenskapliga fakulteten, Institutionen för astronomi.
Stockholms universitet, Naturvetenskapliga fakulteten, Institutionen för astronomi.ORCID-id: 0000-0002-2512-6748
Antal upphovsmän: 32019 (Engelska)Ingår i: Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, E-ISSN 1475-7516, nr 4, artikel-id 051Artikel i tidskrift (Refereegranskat) Published
Abstract [en]

Potential small-scale discrepancies in the picture of galaxy formation painted by the Lambda CDM paradigm have led to considerations of modi fied dark matter models. One such dark matter model that has recently attracted much attention is fuzzy dark matter (FDM). In FDM models, the dark matter is envisaged to be an ultra-light scalar field with a particle mass m(FDM) similar to 10(-22) eV. This yields astronomically large de Broglie wavelengths which can suppress small-scale structure formation and give rise to the observed kpc-sized density cores in dwarf galaxies. We investigate the evolution of the 21-cm signal during Cosmic Dawn and the Epoch of Reionization (EoR) in Lambda FDM cosmologies using analytical models. The delay in source formation and the absence of small halos in Lambda FDM significantly postpone the Ly alpha coupling, heating, as well as the reionization of the neutral hydrogen of the intergalactic medium. As a result, the absorption feature in the evolution of the global 21-cm signal has a significantly smaller full width at half maximum (Delta z less than or similar to 3), than Lambda CDM (Delta z similar or equal to 6). This alone rules out mFDM < 6 x 10(-22) eV as a result of the 2 sigma lower limit Delta z greater than or similar to 4 from EDGES High-Band. As a result, Lambda FDM is not a viable solution to the potential small-scale problems facing Lambda CDM. Finally, we show that any detection of the 21-cm signal at redshifts z > 14 by interferometers such as the SKA can also exclude Lambda FDM models.

Ort, förlag, år, upplaga, sidor
2019. nr 4, artikel-id 051
Nyckelord [en]
axions, dark matter theory, first stars, reionization
Nationell ämneskategori
Astronomi, astrofysik och kosmologi
Identifikatorer
URN: urn:nbn:se:su:diva-169063DOI: 10.1088/1475-7516/2019/04/051ISI: 000466578400005OAI: oai:DiVA.org:su-169063DiVA, id: diva2:1318278
Tillgänglig från: 2019-05-27 Skapad: 2019-05-27 Senast uppdaterad: 2023-03-28Bibliografiskt granskad

Open Access i DiVA

Fulltext saknas i DiVA

Övriga länkar

Förlagets fulltext

Person

Ghara, RaghunathMellema, Garrelt

Sök vidare i DiVA

Av författaren/redaktören
Ghara, RaghunathMellema, Garrelt
Av organisationen
Institutionen för astronomi
I samma tidskrift
Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics
Astronomi, astrofysik och kosmologi

Sök vidare utanför DiVA

GoogleGoogle Scholar

doi
urn-nbn

Altmetricpoäng

doi
urn-nbn
Totalt: 125 träffar
RefereraExporteraLänk till posten
Permanent länk

Direktlänk
Referera
Referensformat
  • apa
  • ieee
  • modern-language-association-8th-edition
  • vancouver
  • Annat format
Fler format
Språk
  • de-DE
  • en-GB
  • en-US
  • fi-FI
  • nn-NO
  • nn-NB
  • sv-SE
  • Annat språk
Fler språk
Utmatningsformat
  • html
  • text
  • asciidoc
  • rtf