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A general approach for testing non-cold dark matter at small cosmological scales

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics 2018-03-14 v1 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

Abstract

We present a general approach for modelling the small-scale suppression in the linear matter power spectrum induced by the presence of non-cold dark matter. We show that the new parametrisation accurately describes a large variety of non-thermal scenarios, removing the need to individually test each of them. We discuss the first astrophysical constraints on its free parameters and we outline the next steps for pursuing a full statistical data analysis.

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@article{arxiv.1712.04810,
  title  = {A general approach for testing non-cold dark matter at small cosmological scales},
  author = {Riccardo Murgia},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1712.04810},
  year   = {2018}
}

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6 pages, 2 figures; to appear in the Proceedings of the 8th Young Researcher Meeting 2017