How cold is cold dark matter? Small-scales constraints from the flux power spectrum of the high-redshift Lyman-α forest

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 100, Issue 4, 2008, Pages

  Viel, Matteo ^a,b   Becker, George D ^c   Bolton, James S ^d   Haehnelt, Martin G ^e   Rauch, Michael ^f   Sargent, Wallace L W ^c  

^a INAF OSSERVATORIO ASTRONOMICO DI TRIESTE   (Italy)

^b SEZIONE DI TRIESTE   (Italy)

^c CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^d MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR ASTROPHYSIK   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^f CARNEGIE OBSERVATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONSTRAINT THEORY; SPECTRAL RESOLUTION; THERMAL EFFECTS; WAVELENGTH DIVISION MULTIPLEXING;

DECOUPLED THERMAL RELICS; DIGITAL SKY SURVEY LYMAN; NEUTRINOS; WARM DARK MATTER (WDM) PARTICLES;

ELEMENTARY PARTICLES;

EID: 38749140621     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.100.041304     Document Type: Article

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