Model independent analysis of dark matter points to a particle mass at the keV scale

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2009-01-07

arxiv.org/abs/0901.0922v3

Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc.404:885,2010

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics

11 pages, 2 figures. Expanded version to be published in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

Scientific paper

10.1111/j.1365-2966.2010.16319.x

We present a model independent analysis of dark matter (DM) both decoupling ultra relativistic (UR) and non-relativistic (NR) based in the phase-space density D = rho_{DM}/sigma^3_{DM}. We derive explicit formulas for the DM particle mass m and for the number of ultra relativistic degrees of freedom g_d at decoupling. We find that for DM particles decoupling UR both at local thermal equilibrium (LTE) and out of LTE, m turns to be at the keV scale. For example, for DM Majorana fermions decoupling at LTE the mass results m ~ 0.85 keV. For DM particles decoupling NR, sqrt{m T_d} results in the keV scale (T_d is the decoupling temperature) and the m value is consistent with the keV scale. In all cases, DM turns to be cold DM (CDM). Also, lower and upper bounds on the DM annihilation cross-section for NR decoupling are derived. We evaluate the free-streaming (Jeans') length and Jeans' mass: they result independent of the type of DM except for the DM self-gravity dynamics. The free-streaming length today results in the kpc range. These results are based on our theoretical analysis, astronomical observations of dwarf spheroidal satellite galaxies in the Milky Way and N-body numerical simulations. We analyze and discuss the results on D from analytic approximate formulas both for linear fluctuations and the (non-linear) spherical model and from N-body simulations results. We obtain in this way upper bounds for the DM particle mass which all result below the 100 keV range.

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