Impact of dark matter on reionization and heating

Details Impact of dark matter on reionization and heating Impact of dark matter on reionization and heating

2007-01-24

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0701672v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

3 pages, 2 figures, to appear in the proceedings of the 11th Marcel Grossmann Meeting held in Berlin, Germany, July 23-29 2006

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We derived the evolution of the energy deposition in the intergalactic medium (IGM) by different decaying (or annihilating) dark matter (DM) candidates. Heavy annihilating DM particles (with mass larger than a few GeV) have no influence on reionization and heating, even if we assume that all the energy emitted by annihilations is absorbed by the IGM. In the case of lighter particles, the impact on reionization and heating depends on the efficiency of energy absorption by the IGM. We calculated the fraction of energy produced by decays and annihilations which is effectively absorbed by the IGM. We found that this fraction is generally high at very high redshift (>>100), but drops at more recent epochs.

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