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We present an effective model for the one-dimensional Lyman-$\alpha$ flux power spectrum far above the baryonic Jeans scale. The main new ingredient is constituted by a set of two parameters that encode the impact of small, highly…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-09-09 Mathias Garny , Thomas Konstandin , Laura Sagunski , Matteo Viel

We explore the effect of massive neutrinos on the weak lensing shear bispectrum using the Cosmological Massive Neutrino Simulations. We find that the primary effect of massive neutrinos is to suppress the amplitude of the bispectrum with…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-06-05 William R. Coulton , Jia Liu , Mathew S. Madhavacheril , Vanessa Böhm , David N. Spergel

We present a new study on the elastic scattering cross section of dark matter (DM) and neutrinos using the latest cosmological data from Planck and large-scale structure experiments. We find that the strongest constraints are set by the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-05-13 Ryan J. Wilkinson , Celine Boehm , Julien Lesgourgues

Cosmic voids, the underdense regions in the universe, are particularly sensitive to diffuse density components such as cosmic neutrinos. This sensitivity is enhanced by the match between void sizes and the free-streaming scale of massive…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-11-04 Gemma Zhang , Zack Li , Jia Liu , David N. Spergel , Christina D. Kreisch , Alice Pisani , Benjamin D. Wandelt

The Milky Way hosts astrophysical accelerators capable of producing high-energy cosmic rays. These cosmic rays can interact with the interstellar medium (ISM) across the Galaxy to produce neutrinos and gamma rays (propagation component),…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-02-17 Mohadeseh Ozlati Moghadam , Kathrin Egberts , Rowan Batzofin , Constantin Steppa , Elisa Bernardini

Cosmological neutrinos strongly affect the evolution of the largest structures in the Universe, i.e. galaxies and galaxy clusters. We use large box-size full hydrodynamic simulations to investigate the non-linear effects that massive…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-11-16 Federico Marulli , Carmelita Carbone , Matteo Viel , Lauro Moscardini , Andrea Cimatti

The neutral intergalactic medium in the post reionization epoch allows us to study cosmological structure formation through the observation of the redshifted 21 cm signal and the Lyman-alpha forest. We investigate the possibility of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-10-31 Ashis Kumar Pal , Tapomoy Guha Sarkar

Light but massive cosmological neutrinos do not cluster significantly on small scales, due to their high thermal velocities. With finite masses, cosmological neutrinos become part of the total matter field and contribute to its smoothing.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-03-20 Zhichao Zeng , Shek Yeung , Ming-Chung Chu

Recent constrains on the sum of neutrino masses inferred by analyzing cosmological data, show that detecting a non-zero neutrino mass is within reach of forthcoming cosmological surveys, implying a direct determination of the absolute…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-04-15 Raul Jimenez , Carlos Pena-Garay , Licia Verde

We investigate the signatures left by massive neutrinos on the spatial distribution of neutral hydrogen (HI) in the post-reionization era by running hydrodynamic simulations that include massive neutrinos as additional collisionless…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-12-09 Francisco Villaescusa-Navarro , Philip Bull , Matteo Viel

By using a suite of large box-size N-body simulations that incorporate massive neutrinos as an extra set of particles, we investigate the impact of neutrino masses on the spatial distribution of dark matter haloes and galaxies. We compute…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-12-09 Francisco Villaescusa-Navarro , Federico Marulli , Matteo Viel , Enzo Branchini , Emanuele Castorina , Emiliano Sefusatti , Shun Saito

We have performed detailed studies of non-linear structure formation in cosmological models with light neutrinos. For the first time the effect of neutrino thermal velocities has been included in a consistent way, and the effect on the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-23 Jacob Brandbyge , Steen Hannestad , Troels Haugboelle , Bjarne Thomsen

Neutrinos are believed to be the most abundant fermions in the Universe, but their masses are unknown, except for being non-zero but much smaller than other fermions. Cosmological relic neutrinos could also have non-zero chemical potentials…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-28 Wangzheng Zhang , Ming-chung Chu , Rui Hu , Shihong Liao , Shek Yeung

Dark matter (DM) annihilations in the Galaxy may produce high energy neutrinos, which can be detected by the neutrino telescopes, for example IceCube, ANTARES and Super-Kamiokande. The neutrinos can also arise from hadronic interaction…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Peng-fei Yin , Jia Liu , Qiang Yuan , Xiao-jun Bi , Shou-hua Zhu

We use the galaxy angular power spectrum at $z\sim0.5-1.2$ from the Canada-France-Hawaii-Telescope Legacy Survey Wide fields (CFHTLS-Wide) to constrain separately the total neutrino mass $\sum{m_\nu}$ and the effective number of neutrino…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 Jun-Qing Xia , Benjamin R. Granett , Matteo Viel , Simeon Bird , Luigi Guzzo , Martin G. Haehnelt , Jean Coupon , Henry Joy McCracken , Yannick Mellier

Measurements of the linear power spectrum of galaxies have placed tight constraints on neutrino masses. We extend the framework of the halo model of cosmological nonlinear matter clustering to include the effect of massive neutrino infall…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Kevork Abazajian , Eric R. Switzer , Scott Dodelson , Katrin Heitmann , Salman Habib

If high-energy neutrinos propagate in a background of ultralight scalar field particles of dark matter ($m_\varphi \sim 10^{-23}$eV), neutrino-dark matter interactions can play a role and affect the neutrino flux. In this work we analyse…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-06-01 Matías M. Reynoso , Oscar A. Sampayo

We present a description of cosmic neutrinos as a dispersive fluid. In this approach, the neutrino phase space is reduced to density and velocity fields alongside a scale-dependent sound speed. This sound speed depends on redshift, the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-04-05 Derek Inman , Ue-Li Pen

Future large scale structure observations are expected to be sensitive to small neutrino masses, of the order of 0.05 eV or more. However, forecasts are based on the assumption that by the time at which these datasets will be available, the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-01-05 J. Lesgourgues , S. Matarrese , M. Pietroni , A. Riotto

We present an analysis of high-resolution hydrodynamical N-body simulations of coupled dark energy cosmologies which focusses on the statistical properties of the transmitted Lyman-alpha flux in the high-redshift intergalactic medium (IGM).…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 Marco Baldi , Matteo Viel