Vid Irsic
First constraints on fuzzy dark matter from Lyman-alpha forest data and hydrodynamical simulations
Irsic, Vid; Viel, Matteo; Haehnelt, Martin G.; Bolton, James S.; Becker, George D.
Authors
Matteo Viel
Martin G. Haehnelt
JAMES BOLTON James.Bolton@nottingham.ac.uk
Associate Professor
George D. Becker
Abstract
We present constraints on the masses of extremely light bosons dubbed fuzzy dark matter from Lyman- ? forest data. Extremely light bosons with a De Broglie wavelength of ~ 1 kpc have been suggested as dark matter candidates that may resolve some of the current small scale problems of the cold dark matter model. For the first time we use hydrodynamical simulations to model the Lyman- ? flux power spectrum in these models and compare with the observed flux power spectrum from two different data sets: the XQ-100 and HIRES/MIKE quasar spectra samples. After marginalization over nuisance and physical parameters and with conservative assumptions for the thermal history of the IGM that allow for jumps in the temperature of up to 5000 K, XQ-100 provides a lower limit of 7.1 x 10 -22 eV, HIRES/MIKE returns a stronger limit of 14.3 x 10 -22 eV, while the combination of both data sets results in a limit of 20 x 10 -22 eV (2? C.L.). The limits for the analysis of the combined data sets increases to 37.5 x 10 -22 eV (2? C.L.) when a smoother thermal history is assumed where the temperature of the IGM evolves as a power-law in redshift. Light boson masses in the range 1 - 10 x 10 -22 eV are ruled out at high significance by our analysis, casting strong doubts on suggestions of significant strophysical implications of FDM, in particular for solving the "small scale crisis" of cold dark matter models
Citation
Irsic, V., Viel, M., Haehnelt, M. G., Bolton, J. S., & Becker, G. D. (2017). First constraints on fuzzy dark matter from Lyman-alpha forest data and hydrodynamical simulations. Physical Review Letters, 119(3), Article 031302. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.119.031302
Journal Article Type | Article |
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Acceptance Date | Jun 20, 2017 |
Online Publication Date | Jul 20, 2017 |
Publication Date | Jul 20, 2017 |
Deposit Date | Jul 12, 2017 |
Publicly Available Date | Jul 20, 2017 |
Journal | Physical Review Letters |
Print ISSN | 0031-9007 |
Electronic ISSN | 1079-7114 |
Publisher | American Physical Society |
Peer Reviewed | Peer Reviewed |
Volume | 119 |
Issue | 3 |
Article Number | 031302 |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.119.031302 |
Public URL | https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/873667 |
Publisher URL | https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.119.031302 |
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