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如何通过莱曼$α$森林限制温暖的暗物质

How to constrain warm dark matter with the Lyman $α$ forest

A. Garzilli, A. Magalich, O. Ruchayskiy, A. Boyarsky

摘要:

高分辨率Lyman- $α$森林数据的通量功率谱在小尺度上表现出抑制。这种抑制的起源可能是由于长期寻找的暖暗物质(WDM)或热效应,与宇宙的再电离历史有关。以前的工作探讨了一类特殊的再电离历史,表现出足够强的热抑制,几乎没有留下空间的温暖暗物质的解释。在这项工作中,我们选择了一个不同的类的再电离的历史,完全兼容的再电离演化的现有数据,但更冷的再电离历史,由以前的作者在确定的性质的暗物质,从而留下最广泛的空间WDM解释的抑制通量功率谱。我们发现,WDM热文物与质量低于1.9千电子伏(95%CL)将产生抑制的规模大于观测到的最大通量功率谱,独立于热效应的假设。这WDM质量是显着低于以前声称的界限,证明了莱曼- $α$森林方法的系统不确定性的水平,由于以前的建模。我们还讨论了这种不确定性可能会影响也在大规模测量的eBOSS数据。

英文摘要:

The flux power spectrum of the high resolution Lyman-$α$ forest data exhibits suppression at small scales. The origin of this suppression can be due to long-sought warm dark matter (WDM) or to thermal effects, related to the largely unknown reionization history of the Universe. Previous works explored a specific class of reionization histories that exhibit sufficiently strong thermal supression and leave little room for warm dark matter interpretation. In this work we choose a different class of reionization histories, fully compatible with available data on evolution of reionization, but much colder then the reionization histories used by previous authors in determining the nature of dark matter, thus leaving the broadest room for the WDM interpretation of the suppression in the flux power spectrum. We find that WDM thermal relics with masses below 1.9 keV (95% CL) would produce a suppression at scales that are larger than observed maximum of the flux power spectrum, independently of assumptions about thermal effects. This WDM mass is significantly lower than previously claimed bounds, demonstrating the level of systematic uncertainty of the Lyman-$α$ forest method, due to the previous modelling. We also discuss how this uncertainty may affect also data at large scales measured by eBOSS.

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