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冷还是热?原始星系约束暗物质与Planck后的宇宙再电离

Cold or Warm? Constraining Dark Matter with Primeval Galaxies and Cosmic Reionization after Planck

A. Lapi, L. Danese

摘要:

暗物质构成了宇宙中绝大多数的物质,但它的微观本质仍然是一个有趣的谜,对粒子物理学,天体物理学和宇宙学有着深远的影响。在这里,我们揭示了长期存在的问题,无论是暗物质是温暖或寒冷的结合测量星系光度函数的高红移z~10从哈勃太空望远镜与最近的宇宙学数据的再电离历史的宇宙从普朗克任务。我们推导出强大的和严格的边界上的温暖的暗物质粒子的质量,发现目前的数据需要它在2和3千电子伏之间的狭窄范围。此外,我们表明,不超过3千电子伏的质量也同时表明与银河系大小的星系中的卫星的本地数量的天体物理约束,虽然它是在边缘的莱曼α森林的分析紧张。对于质量超过3 keV的暖暗物质和冷暗物质,为了满足普朗克对光学深度的约束,并且不遇到卫星问题,需要调用天体物理过程,抑制质量M_H<几个10^8 M_sun的晕中的星系形成,对应于极限UV星等M_UV~-11。无论如何,我们预测了星系光度函数在M_UV~-12的z~8附近的下降,并强调其详细的形状对粒子物理和小晕中星系形成的天体物理都是非常有用的。这些期望将通过哈勃前沿场和詹姆斯韦伯太空望远镜的出现进行测试,这将使探测星系光度函数的非常微弱的一端达到z~8-10。

英文摘要:

Dark matter constitutes the great majority of the matter content in the Universe, but its microscopic nature remains an intriguing mystery, with profound implications for particle physics, astrophysics and cosmology. Here we shed light on the longstanding issue of whether the dark matter is warm or cold by combining the measurements of the galaxy luminosity functions out to high redshifts z~10 from the Hubble Space Telescope with the recent cosmological data on the reionization history of the Universe from the Planck mission. We derive robust and tight bounds on the mass of warm dark matter particle, finding that the current data require it to be in the narrow range between 2 and 3 keV. In addition, we show that a mass not exceeding 3 keV is also concurrently indicated by astrophysical constraints related to the local number of satellites in Milky Way-sized galaxies, though it is in marginal tension with analysis of the Lyman-alpha forest. For warm dark matter masses above 3 keV as well as for cold dark matter, to satisfy the Planck constraints on the optical depth and not to run into the satellite problem would require invoking astrophysical processes that inhibit galaxy formation in halos with mass M_H< a few 10^8 M_sun, corresponding to a limiting UV magnitude M_UV~-11. Anyway, we predict a downturn of the galaxy luminosity function at z~8 faintward of M_UV~-12, and stress that its detailed shape is extremely informative both on particle physics and on the astrophysics of galaxy formation in small halos. These expectations will be tested via the Hubble Frontier Fields and with the advent of the James Webb Space Telescope, which will enable probing the very faint end of the galaxy luminosity function out to z~8-10.

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