Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
1997-07-12
Astrophys.J.Suppl. 114 (1998) 37
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
42 pages, 9 Postscript figures, Accepted in ApJ Supplement
Scientific paper
10.1086/313065
We study the growth of density perturbations in a universe with unstable dark matter particles. The mass (m_\nu) range 30 eV < m_\nu < 10 keV with lifetimes ($t_d$) in the range 10^7 sec < t_d < 10^16 sec are considered. We calculate the COBE normalized matter power spectrum for these models. We find that it is possible to construct models consistent with observations for masses $m_\nu > 50 eV by adjusting t_d so as to keep the quantity (m_\nu(keV))^2 t_d(yr) constant at a value around 100. For m_\nu < 1 keV the power spectrum has extra power at small scales which could result in an early epoch of galaxy formation. We do not find any value of t_d which gives a viable model in the mass range m_\nu < 50 eV. We also consider the implications of radiatively decaying neutrinos---models in which a small fraction B << 1 of neutrinos decay into photons-which could possibly ionize the intergalactic medium (IGM) at high redshift. We show that the parameter space of decaying particles which satisfies the IGM observations does not give viable models of structure formation.
Bharadwaj Somnath
Sethi Shiv K.
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