Impact of dark matter decays and annihilations on reionization

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2006-03-09

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0603237v4

Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc.369:1719-1724,2006

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

6 pages, 5 figures; MNRAS, in press

Scientific paper

10.1111/j.1365-2966.2006.10408.x

One of the possible methods to distinguish among various dark matter candidates is to study the effects of dark matter decays. We consider four different dark matter candidates (light dark matter, gravitinos, neutralinos and sterile neutrinos), for each of them deriving the decaying/annihilation rate, the influence on reionization, matter temperature and CMB spectra. We find that light dark matter particles (1-10 MeV) and sterile neutrinos (2-8 keV) can be sources of partial early reionization (z<~100). However, their integrated contribution to Thomson optical depth is small (<~0.01) with respect to the three year WMAP results (tau_e=0.09+/-0.03). Finally, they can significantly affect the behavior of matter temperature. On the contrary, effects of heavy dark matter candidates (gravitinos and neutralinos) on reionization and heating are minimal. All the considered dark matter particles have completely negligible effects on the CMB spectra.

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