English

Cosmic microwave background constraints on extended dark matter objects

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics 2024-10-01 v2 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

Abstract

Primordially formed extended dark objects would accrete baryonic matter and impact the ionisation history of the Universe. Insisting on consistency with the anisotropies of the cosmic microwave background, we derive constraints on the dark matter fraction for various classes of objects, of different sizes. We introduce a novel scaling technique to speed up numerical calculations and release our calculation framework in the form of a Mathematica notebook. Conservatively, we focus on spherical accretion and collisional ionisation. We find strong constraints limiting the dark matter fraction to subpercent level for objects of up to 10410^4 AU in size.

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Cite

@article{arxiv.2403.13072,
  title  = {Cosmic microwave background constraints on extended dark matter objects},
  author = {Djuna Croon and Sergio Sevillano Muñoz},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2403.13072},
  year   = {2024}
}

Comments

23 pages, 8 figures, Code available at:https://gitlab.com/SergioSevillano/edo-accretion

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