Cosmological searches for a noncold dark matter component

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Publication date 15-08-2017
Journal Physical Review D. Particles, Fields, Gravitation, and Cosmology
Article number 043501
Volume | Issue number 96 | 4
Number of pages 11
Organisations
  • Faculty of Science (FNWI) - Institute of Physics (IoP) - Institute for Theoretical Physics Amsterdam (ITFA)
Abstract
We explore an extended cosmological scenario where the dark matter is an admixture of cold and additional noncold species. The mass and temperature of the noncold dark matter particles are extracted from a number of cosmological measurements. Among others, we consider tomographic weak lensing data and Milky Way dwarf satellite galaxy counts. We also study the potential of these scenarios in alleviating the existing tensions between local measurements and cosmic microwave background (CMB) estimates of the S8 parameter, with S8=σ8√Ωm , and of the Hubble constant H0 . In principle, a subdominant, noncold dark matter particle with a mass mX∼keV , could achieve the goals above. However, the preferred ranges for its temperature and its mass are different when extracted from weak lensing observations and from Milky Way dwarf satellite galaxy counts, since these two measurements require suppressions of the matter power spectrum at different scales. Therefore, solving simultaneously the CMB-weak lensing tensions and the small scale crisis in the standard cold dark matter picture via only one noncold dark matter component seems to be challenging.
Document type Article
Note © 2017 American Physical Society
Language English
Published at https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.96.043501
Other links https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/85029066077
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