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Warm Dark Matter (WDM) cosmologies are a viable alternative to the Cold Dark Matter (CDM) scenario. Unfortunately, an accurate scrutiny of the WDM predictions with N-body simulations has proven difficult due to numerical artefacts. Here, we…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 Raul E. Angulo , Oliver Hahn , Tom Abel

We use $N$-body simulations to show that high-redshift galaxy counts provide an interesting constraint on the nature of dark matter, specifically Warm Dark Matter (WDM), owing to the lack of early structure formation these models. Our…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-07-09 Christian Schultz , Jose Oñorbe , Kevork N. Abazajian , James S. Bullock

We present a new suite of over 1,500 cosmological N-body simulations with varied Warm Dark Matter (WDM) models ranging from 2.5 to 30 keV. We use these simulations to train Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) to infer WDM particle masses…

Warm Dark Matter (WDM) models offer an attractive alternative to the current Cold Dark Matter (CDM) cosmological model. We present a novel method to differentiate between WDM and CDM cosmologies, namely using weak lensing; this provides a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-17 Hareth S. Mahdi , Pascal J. Elahi , Geraint F. Lewis , Chris Power

Warm dark matter (WDM) can potentially explain small-scale observations that currently challenge the cold dark matter (CDM) model, as warm particles suppress structure formation due to free-streaming effects. Observing small-scale matter…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-01-23 Ariane Dekker , Shin'ichiro Ando , Camila A. Correa , Kenny C. Y. Ng

Small-scale discrepancies in the standard Lambda cold dark matter paradigm have motivated the exploration of alternative dark matter (DM) models, such as warm dark matter (WDM). We investigate the constraining power of galaxy scaling…

The properties of the first galaxies, expected to drive the Cosmic Dawn (CD) and the Epoch of Reionization (EoR), are encoded in the 3D structure of the cosmic 21-cm signal. Parameter inference from upcoming 21-cm observations promises to…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-01-24 Jaehong Park , Andrei Mesinger , Bradley Greig , Nicolas Gillet

The redshifted 21-cm signal from the dark ages offers a powerful probe of cosmological models and the underlying dark matter (DM) microphysics. We investigate deviations from the standard $\Lambda$CDM prediction, an absorption trough of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-15 Debarun Paul , Sourav Pal , Deepthi Moorkanat , Antara Dey , Amit Dutta Banik , Rajesh Mondal

The emission in the hyperfine structure 21 cm line of atomic hydrogen arising in the halos with masses $\sim10^6-10^{10}$ M$_\odot$ from the Dark Ages in the models with Warm Dark Matter (WDM) is analysed. The halos are assumed to be formed…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-02-25 B. Novosyadlyj , V. Shulga , Yu. Kulinich , W. Han

Understanding the nature of dark matter (DM) particles remains a pivotal challenge in modern cosmology. Current cosmological research on these phenomena primarily utilizes cosmic microwave background (CMB) observations and other late-time…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-24 Meng-Lin Zhao , Yue Shao , Sai Wang , Xin Zhang

The sky-averaged (global) 21-cm signal is a powerful probe of the intergalactic medium (IGM) prior to the completion of reionization. However, it has so far been unclear that even in the best case scenario, in which the signal is accurately…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 Jordan Mirocha , Geraint J. A. Harker , Jack O. Burns

High resolution N-body simulations of cold dark matter (CDM) models predict that galaxies and clusters have cuspy halos with excessive substructure. Observations reveal smooth halos with central density cores. One possible resolution of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-09-23 Vijay K. Narayanan , David N. Spergel , Romeel Davé , Chung-Pei Ma

We study the impact of a warm dark matter (WDM) cosmology on dwarf galaxy formation through a suite of cosmological hydrodynamical zoom-in simulations of $M_{\rm halo} \approx10^{10}\,M_{\odot}$ dark matter halos as part of the Feedback in…

We explore the imprints of fuzzy dark matter (FDM) on the redshifted 21~cm signal from the Cosmic Dawn and the Epoch of Reionization by employing the wavelet scattering transform (WST). FDM, composed of ultralight scalar particles with…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-02 Hayato Shimabukuro , Shihang Liu , Bohua Li

We exploit the recent {\it James Webb Space Telescope} (JWST) determination of galaxy UV luminosity functions over the redshift range $z=9-14.5$ to derive constraints on warm dark matter (WDM) models. The delayed structure formation in WDM…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-05-22 Bin Liu , Huanyuan Shan , Jiajun Zhang

We use thirty-eight high-resolution simulations of galaxy formation between redshift 10 and 5 to study the impact of a 3 keV warm dark matter (WDM) candidate on the high-redshift Universe. We focus our attention on the stellar mass function…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-07-24 Boyan K. Stoychev , Keri L. Dixon , Andrea V. Macciò , Marvin Blank , Aaron A. Dutton

A fundamental prediction of the cold dark matter (CDM) model of structure formation is the existence of a vast population of dark matter haloes extending to subsolar masses. By contrast, other dark matter models, such as a warm thermal…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-02-10 Qiuhan He , Andrew Robertson , James Nightingale , Shaun Cole , Carlos S. Frenk , Richard Massey , Aristeidis Amvrosiadis , Ran Li , Xiaoyue Cao , Amy Etherington

The forest of Lyman-$\alpha$ absorption lines detected in the spectra of distant quasars encodes information on the nature and properties of dark matter and the thermodynamics of diffuse baryonic material. Its main observable -- the 1D flux…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-07-19 Bruno Villasenor , Brant Robertson , Piero Madau , Evan Schneider

The fluctuations in the dark matter-baryon relative velocity field are imprinted as acoustic oscillations in the 21-cm power spectrum during cosmic dawn (CD). These velocity acoustic oscillations (VAOs) keep the imprints of the comoving…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-02-08 Debanjan Sarkar , Ely D. Kovetz

Warm dark matter (WDM) is an intriguing model of structure formation from the point of view of both cosmology and particle physics. We consider a one-parameter family of WDM models. The linear power spectra for these models is calculated…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-11-30 Stephane Colombi , Scott Dodelson , Lawrence M. Widrow