Constraining Hot Dark Matter Sub-Species with Weak Lensing and the Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation
Although it is well known that the bulk of dark matter (DM) has to be cold, the existence of an additional sub-dominant, hot species remains a valid possibility. In this paper we investigate the potential of the cosmic shear power spectrum to constrain such a mixed (hot plus cold) DM scenario with t...
| Autores: | , , , , |
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2024 |
| País: | España |
| Institución: | Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC) |
| Repositorio: | DIGITAL.CSIC. Repositorio Institucional del CSIC |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:digital.csic.es:10261/383960 |
| Acceso en línea: | http://hdl.handle.net/10261/383960 http://arxiv.org/abs/2309.03865v2 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | Cosmological parameters Cosmology: observations Dark matter Large-scale structure of Universe |
| Sumario: | Although it is well known that the bulk of dark matter (DM) has to be cold, the existence of an additional sub-dominant, hot species remains a valid possibility. In this paper we investigate the potential of the cosmic shear power spectrum to constrain such a mixed (hot plus cold) DM scenario with two additional free parameters, the hot-to-total DM fraction (fhdm) and the thermal mass of the hot component (mhdm). Running a Bayesian inference analysis for both the Kilo-Degree Survey cosmic shear data (KiDS-1000) as well as the cosmic microwave background (CMB) temperature and polarisation data from Planck, we derive new constraints for the mixed DM scenario. We find a 95% confidence limit of fhdm < 0.08 for a very hot species of mhdm ≤ 20 eV. This constraint is weakened to fhdm < 0.25 for mhdm ≤ 80 eV. Scenarios with masses above mhdm ∼ 200 eV remain unconstrained by the data. Next to providing limits, we investigate the potential of mixed DM to address the clustering (or S 8) tension between lensing and the CMB. We find a reduction of the 2D (Ωm −S 8) tension from 2.9σ to 1.6σ when going from a pure cold DM to a mixed DM scenario. When computing the 1D Gaussian tension on S 8 the improvement is milder, from 2.4σ to 2.0σ. |
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