Lyman-α constraints on warm and on warm-plus-cold dark matter models

Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics

Volumn 2009, Issue 5, 2009, Pages

  Boyarsky, Alexey ^a,b   Lesgourgues, Julien ^c,d,e   Ruchayskiy, Oleg ^c   Viel, Matteo ^f,g  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b BOGOLYUBOV INSTITUTE FOR THEORETICAL PHYSICS   (Ukraine)

^c EPFL   (Switzerland)

^d CERN   (Switzerland)

^e UNIVERSITÉ DE SAVOIE   (France)

^f INAF OSSERVATORIO ASTRONOMICO DI TRIESTE   (Italy)

^g SEZIONE DI TRIESTE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Cosmology of theories beyond the SM; Dark matter; Power spectrum

Indexed keywords

EID: 70049116310     PISSN: 14757516     EISSN: 14757516     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1475-7516/2009/05/012     Document Type: Article

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