期刊
MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY
卷 438, 期 3, 页码 2664-2671出版社
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stt2392
关键词
cosmology: theory; dark matter; large-scale structure of Universe
资金
- National Science and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC)
- NSERC Canada
- CITA National Fellowship
- NSERC
We investigate the effects of warm dark matter (WDM) on the cosmic 21-cm signal. If dark matter exists as WDM instead of cold dark matter (CDM), its non-negligible velocities can inhibit the formation of low-mass haloes that normally form first in CDM models, therefore delaying star formation. The absence of early sources delays the build-up of UV and X-ray backgrounds that affect the 21-cm radiation signal produced by neutral hydrogen. With use of the 21CMFAST code, we demonstrate that the pre-reionization 21-cm signal can be changed significantly in WDM models with a free-streaming length equivalent to that of a thermal relic with mass m(X) of up to similar to 10-20 keV. In such a WDM cosmology, the 21-cm signal traces the growth of more massive haloes, resulting in a delay of the 21-cm absorption signature and followed by accelerated X-ray heating. CDM models where astrophysical sources have a suppressed photon-production efficiency can delay the 21-cm signal as well, although its subsequent evolution is not as rapid as compared to WDM. This motivates using the gradient of the global 21-cm signal to differentiate between some CDM and WDM models. Finally, we show that the degeneracy between the astrophysics and m(X) can be broken with the 21-cm power spectrum, as WDM models should have a bias-induced excess of power on large scales. This boost in power should be detectable with current interferometers for models with m(X) less than or similar to 3 keV, while next-generation instruments will easily be able to measure this difference for all relevant WDM models.
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