Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2006-05-11
Phys.Rev. D74 (2006) 023527
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
9 pages, 3 figures; v2 includes discussion of astro-ph/0605706 and matches version to appear in Phys. Rev. D
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevD.74.023527
We present a comprehensive analysis of constraints on the sterile neutrino as a dark matter candidate. The minimal production scenario with a standard thermal history and negligible cosmological lepton number is in conflict with conservative radiative decay constraints from the cosmic X-ray background in combination with stringent small-scale structure limits from the Lyman-alpha forest. We show that entropy release through massive particle decay after production does not alleviate these constraints. We further show that radiative decay constraints from local group dwarf galaxies are subject to large uncertainties in the dark matter density profile of these systems. Within the strongest set of constraints, resonant production of cold sterile neutrino dark matter in non-zero lepton number cosmologies remains allowed.
Abazajian Kevork
Koushiappas Savvas M.
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