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We demonstrate that dark matter heating of gas clouds hundreds of parsecs from the Milky Way Galactic center provides a powerful new test of dark matter interactions. To illustrate, we set a leading bound on nucleon scattering for 10-100…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-10-03 Amit Bhoonah , Joseph Bramante , Fatemeh Elahi , Sarah Schon

Baryonic physical processes could leave non-negligible imprint on cosmic matter distribution pattern. Series of high precision simulation data sets with identical initial condition are employed for count-in-cell (CIC) analysis, including…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 Xiaojun Zhu , Jun Pan

The redshifted 21-cm line of hydrogen holds great potential for the study of cosmology, as it can probe otherwise unobservable cosmic epochs. In particular, measurements of the 21-cm power spectrum during cosmic dawn---the era when the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-09-27 Julian B. Muñoz

After cosmological recombination, the primordial hydrogen gas decoupled from the cosmic microwave background (CMB) and fell into the gravitational potential wells of the dark matter. The neutral hydrogen imprinted acoustic oscillations on…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Rennan Barkana , Abraham Loeb

We present new constraints on parameters of cosmic dawn and the epoch of reionization derived from the EDGES High-Band spectrum ($90-190$ MHz). The parameters are probed by evaluating global $21$ cm signals generated with the recently…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-04-24 Raul A. Monsalve , Anastasia Fialkov , Judd D. Bowman , Alan E. E. Rogers , Thomas J. Mozdzen , Aviad Cohen , Rennan Barkana , Nivedita Mahesh

We examine the maximum possible strength of the global 21-cm absorption dip on the Cosmic Background Radiation at high-redshift caused by the atomic intergalactic medium, when the Lyman-$\alpha$ coupling is maximum, assuming no exotic…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-03-01 Pablo Villanueva-Domingo , Olga Mena , Jordi Miralda-Escudé

A strongly self-interacting component of asymmetric dark matter particles can form compact dark stars. The high dark matter density in these objects may allow significant dark matter annihilation into Standard Model particles, even when the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-05-15 Boris Betancourt Kamenetskaia , Alejandro Ibarra , Chris Kouvaris

The resonance scattering of Ly$\alpha$ photons with neutral hydrogen atoms in the intergalactic medium not only couples the spin temperature to the kinetic temperature but also leads to a heating of the gas. We investigate the impact of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-01-08 Raghunath Ghara , Garrelt Mellema

The formation redshift and abundance of the first stars and galaxies is highly sensitive to the build up of low mass dark matter halos as well as astrophysical feedback effects which modulate star formation in these low mass halos. The…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-04-30 Jo Verwohlt , Charlotte A. Mason , Julian B. Muñoz , Francis-Yan Cyr-Racine , Mark Vogelsberger , Jesús Zavala

The small scale observations indicate that the dark matter may be self-interacting. In this paper, we calculate the shear ($\eta$) and bulk viscosity ($\zeta$) of Self Interacting Dark Matter (SIDM) fluid, in kinetic theory formalism.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-02-27 Arvind Kumar Mishra

In this work, we study the extended viscous dark energy models in the context of matter perturbations. To do this, we assume an alternative interpretation of the flat Friedmann-Lema\^itre-Robertson-Walker Universe, through the nonadditive…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-05-13 W. J. C. da Silva , R. Silva

The search for a particle dark matter signal in terms of radiation produced by dark matter annihilation or decay has to cope with the extreme faintness of the predicted signal and the presence of masking astrophysical backgrounds. It has…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-11-11 S. Arcari , E. Pinetti , N. Fornengo

We investigate how precisely we can determine the nature of dark energy such as the equation of state (EoS) and its time dependence by using future observations of 21 cm fluctuations at the epoch of reionization (6.8 <~ z <~ 10) such as…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-03-07 Kazunori Kohri , Yoshihiko Oyama , Toyokazu Sekiguchi , Tomo Takahashi

Fluctuations of the 21 cm brightness temperature before the formation of the first stars hold the promise of becoming a high-precision cosmological probe in the future. The growth of over densities is very well described by perturbation…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-04-23 Yacine Ali-Haïmoud , P. Daniel Meerburg , Sihan Yuan

The energy released from dark matter (DM) annihilation leads to additional ionization and heating of the intergalactic gas, impacting the hydrogen 21-cm signal during the cosmic dawn. The dark matter annihilation rate scales with its…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-18 Junsong Cang , Yu Gao , Yin-Zhe Ma

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

For dark matter (DM) particles with masses in the 0.6 - 6 m_p range, we set stringent constraints on the interaction cross-sections for scattering with ordinary baryonic matter. These constraints follow from the recognition that such…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-10-24 David A. Neufeld , Glennys R. Farrar , Christopher F. McKee

Most of the models leading to a current state of cosmic accelerated expansion fail to address the coincidence problem, i.e., that the dark energy density and the energy density of the matter fluid are of the same order precisely today. We…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Diego Pavon , Luis P. Chimento , Alejandro S. Jakubi

We present the cosmological constraints on the cross section of baryon-dark matter interactions for the dark matter mass below the MeV scale from the Planck CMB (cosmic microwave background) and SDSS (Sloan Digital Sky Survey)…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-09-25 Junpei Ooba , Horoyuki Tashiro , Kenji Kadota