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On the cosmological evolution of Scalar Field Dark Matter in the $\texttt{CLASS}$ code: accuracy and precision of numerical solutions

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics 2023-07-13 v1

Abstract

We present a numerical analysis of the cosmological evolution of scalar field dark matter (SFDM) in the Boltzmann code CLASS\texttt{CLASS}, based on a dynamical system analysis of previous works. We show a detailed study of the evolution of the different dynamical variables, and in particular of the energy density and its corresponding linear perturbations. The numerical results are in good agreement with those of the original SFDM equations of motion, and have better accuracy than other approaches. In addition, we calculate the temperature and matter power spectra and discuss the reliability of their numerical results. We also give simple examples in which we can put constraints on the field mass using recent likelihoods incorporated in the Monte Carlo Markov Chain sampler MontePython\texttt{MontePython}.

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@article{arxiv.2307.05600,
  title  = {On the cosmological evolution of Scalar Field Dark Matter in the $\texttt{CLASS}$ code: accuracy and precision of numerical solutions},
  author = {L. Arturo Ureña-López and Francisco X. Linares Cedeño},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2307.05600},
  year   = {2023}
}

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20 pages, 12 figures