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The amount of decaying dark matter, accumulated in the central regions in neutron stars together with the energy deposition rate from decays, may set a limit on the neutron star survival rate against transitions to more compact objects…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-04-09 M. Angeles Perez-Garcia , J. Silk

The nature of dark matter is increasingly constrained by cosmological data. In this paper, we examine the implications of the Cosmic Microwave Background anisotropy limits on the density of cold dark matter under different theoretical…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 A. Melchiorri , J. Silk

In this review, I outline the use of galaxy correlations to constrain cosmological parameters. As with the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB), the density of dark and baryonic matter imprints important scales on the fluctuations of matter…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Robert C. Nichol

It has been long discussed that cosmic rays may contain signals of dark matter. In the last couple of years an anomaly of cosmic-ray positrons has drawn a lot of attentions, and recently an excess in cosmic-ray anti-proton has been reported…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-06-29 Shin'ichiro Ando , Koji Ishiwata

Dark Matter (DM) annihilation and decay during the Dark Ages can affect the cosmic ionization history and leave imprints in the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) anisotropy spectra. CMB polarization anisotropy can be sensitive to such…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-11-11 Junsong Cang , Yu Gao , Yin-Zhe Ma

If dark matter is unstable and the mass is within GeV-TeV regime, its decays produce high-energy photons that give contribution to the extragalactic gamma-ray background (EGRB). We constrain dark matter decay by analyzing the 50-month EGRB…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 Shin'ichiro Ando , Koji Ishiwata

As one of the fundamental unknowns of our Universe, the mass of dark matter remains to be a topic of great interest. We consider the possibility of a time-variation of the dark matter mass. We study the cosmological constraints on a model…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-01 Amlan Chakraborty , Anirban Das , Subinoy Das , Shiv K. Sethi

Decaying or annihilating dark matter particles could be detected through gamma-ray emission from the species they decay or annihilate into. This is usually done by modelling the flux from specific dark matter-rich objects such as the Milky…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-12-01 Deaglan J. Bartlett , Andrija Kostić , Harry Desmond , Jens Jasche , Guilhem Lavaux

High-precision measurements of the temperature and polarization anisotropies of the cosmic microwave background radiation have been previously employed to set robust constraints on dark matter annihilation during recombination. In this work…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-05-30 Douglas P. Finkbeiner , Silvia Galli , Tongyan Lin , Tracy R. Slatyer

We present an analysis of high-resolution N-body simulations of decaying dark matter cosmologies focusing on the statistical properties of the transmitted Lyman-alpha forest flux in the high-redshift intergalactic medium. In this type of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 Mei-Yu Wang , Rupert A. C. Croft , Annika H. G. Peter , Andrew R. Zentner , Chris W. Purcell

By exploiting small-scale structure formation probed by Lyman-$\alpha$ forest observations, we study constraints on a model of dark matter from dark sector decay. We compute the phase space distribution of the dark matter and the linear…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-03-30 Si-Yuan Zhao , Yi-Cheng Dai , Wei Liao , Yi-Song Lu

The cosmological consequences of an interacting model in which vacuum decay law is deducted from the effect that vacuum decay has on the dark matter evolution are investigated. Here, the baryonic matter is also considered as a fluid…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-11-27 H. T. C. M. Souza , N. Pires , F. E. M. Costa , F. C. Carvalho , E. P. Bento

The extended Galileon models possess tracker solutions with de Sitter attractors along which the dark energy equation of state is constant during the matter-dominated epoch, i.e. w_DE = -1-s, where s is a positive constant. Even with this…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-03-19 Antonio De Felice , Shinji Tsujikawa

We revise the cosmological phenomenology of Macroscopic Dark Matter (MDM) candidates, also commonly dubbed as Macros. A possible signature of MDM is the capture of baryons from the cosmological plasma in the pre-recombination epoch, with…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-08-04 Luca Caloni , Martina Gerbino , Massimiliano Lattanzi

In this letter, we report precise and robust observational constraints on dark matter-dark energy scattering cross section, using the latest data from cosmic microwave background (CMB) Planck temperature and polarization, baryon acoustic…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-11-06 Suresh Kumar , Rafael C. Nunes

We use the integrated Sachs-Wolfe (ISW) effect, by now detectable at $\sim 5\sigma$ within the context of $\Lambda{}$CDM cosmologies, to place strong constraints on dynamical dark energy theories. Working within an effective field theory…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-07-18 Emeric Seraille , Johannes Noller , Blake D. Sherwin

This conference proceedings paper provides a short summary of the constraints presented in Menci et al. 2016, 2017 on the mass of thermal WDM candidates, and of the results presented in Romanello et al. 2021 on how Reionization scenarios…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-01-11 Marco Castellano , Nicola Menci , Massimiliano Romanello

Any unified dark matter cosmology can be decomposed into dark matter interacting with vacuum energy, without introducing any additional degrees of freedom. We present observational constraints on an interacting vacuum plus dark energy…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-04-16 Yuting Wang , David Wands , Lixin Xu , Josue De-Santiago , Alireza Hojjati

We compute the bounds on the dark matter (DM) annihilation cross section using the most recent Cosmic Microwave Background measurements from WMAP9, SPT'11 and ACT'10. We consider DM with mass in the MeV-TeV range annihilating 100% into…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-09-13 Laura Lopez-Honorez , Olga Mena , Sergio Palomares-Ruiz , Aaron C. Vincent

We derive constraints on cosmological parameters using the power spectrum of galaxy clustering measured from the final two-degree field galaxy redshift survey (2dFGRS) and a compilation of measurements of the temperature power spectrum and…