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Can Sterile Neutrinos Be the Dark Matter?
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We use the Ly-alpha forest power spectrum measured by the Sloan Digital Sky Survey and high-resolution spectroscopy observations in combination with cosmic microwave background and galaxy clustering constraints to place limits on a sterile neutrino as a dark matter candidate in the warm dark matter scenario. Such a neutrino would be created in the early Universe through mixing with an active neutrino and would suppress structure on scales smaller than its free-streaming scale. We ran a series of high-resolution hydrodynamic simulations with varying neutrino masses to describe the effect of a sterile neutrino on the Ly-alpha forest power spectrum. We find that the mass limit is m(s) >13 keV at 95% C.L. (9 keV at 99.9%), which is above the upper limit allowed by x-ray constraints, excluding this candidate from being all of the dark matter in this model.
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- Authors
- Seljak, U., Makarov, A., McDonald, P., & Trac, H.
- Venue
- Physical Review Letters
- Publisher
- American Physical Society (APS)
- Published
- 2006-11-08
- Volume
- 97
- Issue
- 19
- Pages
- 191303-191303
- ISSN
- 0031-9007 (ISSN-L)
- 1079-7114
- OpenAlex
- W2105115054
- Cited by
- 344
- References
- 29
- FWCI
- 18.34
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
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