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Ultracompact minihalo (UCMH) is a special type of dark matter halo with a very steep density profile which may form in the early universe seeded by an overdense region or a primordial black hole. Constraints on its abundance give valuable…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-03-18 Xing-Fu Zhang , Ji-Gui Cheng , Ben-Yang Zhu , Tian-Ci Liu , Yun-Feng Liang , En-Wei Liang

Ultracompact minihalos (UCMHs) are dense dark matter structures which can form from large density perturbations shortly after matter-radiation equality. If dark matter is in the form of Weakly Interacting Massive Particles (WIMPs), then…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-11-11 Amandeep S. Josan , Anne M. Green

For a Gaussian spectrum of primordial density fluctuations, ultracompact minihalos (UCMHs) of dark matter are expected to be produced in much greater abundance than, e.g., primordial black holes. Forming shortly after matter-radiation…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-02-19 Torsten Bringmann , Pat Scott , Yashar Akrami

A new kind of dark matter structures, ultracompact minihalos (UCMHs) was proposed recently. They would be formed during the radiation dominated epoch if the large density perturbations are existent. Moreover, if the dark matter is made up…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2011-12-30 Yupeng Yang , Xuelei Chen , Tan Lu , Hongshi Zong

Ultracompact Minihalos (UCMHs) have been proposed as a type of dark matter sub-structure seeded by large-amplitude primordial perturbations and topological defects. UCMHs are expected to survive to the present era, allowing constraints to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-11-08 Hamish A. Clark , Geraint F. Lewis , Pat Scott

Compared with that of standard dark matter halos, the density profile of the recently proposed new kind of dark matter structure named ultracompact minihalos (UCMHs) is steeper and its formation time is earlier. If the dark matter is…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-06-27 Yupeng Yang , Guilin Yang , Hongshi Zong

The ultracompact minihalos could be formed during the earlier epoch of the universe. The dark matter annihilation within them is very strong due to the steep density profile, $\rho \sim r^{-2.25}$. The high energy electrons and positrons…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-05-01 Yupeng Yang , Guilin Yang , Xiaoyuan Huang , Xuelei Chen , Tan Lu , Hongshi Zong

Ultracompact minihalos have recently been proposed as a new class of dark matter structure. These minihalos would be produced by phase transitions in the early Universe or features in the inflaton potential, and constitute non-baryonic…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-20 Pat Scott , Sofia Sivertsson

Events like inflation or phase transitions can produce large density perturbations on very small scales in the early Universe. Probes of small scales are therefore useful for e.g. discriminating between inflationary models. Until recently,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-08-13 Pat Scott , Torsten Bringmann , Yashar Akrami

In the dark age of the universe, any exotic sources, e.g. the dark matter annihilation, which inject the energy into the intergalactic medium (IGM) will left some imprint on the 21cm background signal. Recently, one new kind of dark matter…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-12-21 Yupeng Yang

Ultracompact minihalos would be formed if there are larger density perturbations ($0.0003 < \delta\rho/\rho < 0.3$) in the earlier epoch. The density profile of them is steeper than the standard dark matter halos. If the dark matter can…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 Yupeng Yang , Guilin Yang , Hongshi Zong

Ultracompact dark matter minihalos (UCMHs) would be formed during the earlier universe if there were large density perturbations. If the dark matter can decay into the standard model particles, such as neutrinos, these objects would become…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-01-06 Yun-Long Zheng , Yu-Peng Yang , Ming-Zhe Li , Hong-Shi Zong

It has been proposed that during the formation of the first generation stars there might be a "dark star" phase in which the power of the star comes from dark matter annihilation. The adiabatic contraction process to form the dark star…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-04-20 Qiang Yuan , Bin Yue , Bing Zhang , Xuelei Chen

If dark matter consists of weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs), dark matter subhalos in the Milky Way could be detectable as gamma-ray point sources due to WIMP annihilation. In this work, we perform an updated study of the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-05-25 Djoeke Schoonenberg , Jennifer Gaskins , Gianfranco Bertone , Jürg Diemand

Primordial black holes (PBHs) formed in the early Universe can accret dark matter particles due to gravity and form ultracompact minihalos (UCMHs). The theoretical researches and simulations have shown that the density profile of dark…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-09-08 Yupeng Yang

In the mixed dark matter scenarios consisting of primordial black holes (PBHs) and weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs), WIMPs can be accreted onto PBHs to form ultracompact minihalos (UCMHs) with a density spike in the early…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-09-01 Yupeng Yang

Ultracompact minihalos (UCMHs) have emerged as a valuable probe of the primordial power spectrum of density fluctuations at small scales. UCMHs are expected to form at early times in regions with ${\delta\rho/\rho \gtrsim 10^{-3}}$, and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-03-07 M. Sten Delos , Adrienne L. Erickcek , Avery P. Bailey , Marcelo A. Alvarez

Although the spectrum of primordial fluctuations has been accurately measured on scales above $\sim 0.1~\rm{Mpc}$, only upper limits exist on smaller scales. In this study, we investigate generic monochromatic enhancements to the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-06-21 Guillermo Franco Abellán , Gaétan Facchinetti

(Abridged) Ultracompact Minihaloes (UCMHs), which formed by dark matter accretion onto primordial black holes (PBHs) or initial dark matter overdensity produced by the primordial density perturbation, provide a new type of compact dark…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 Dong Zhang

The cosmic microwave background (CMB) observation by the Planck satellite precisely determines primordial curvature fluctuations on larger scales than $\mathcal O(1)\,\mathrm{Mpc}$, while the small-scale curvature fluctuation is still less…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-04-06 Masahiro Kawasaki , Hiromasa Nakatsuka , Kazunori Nakayama
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