First Constraints on Fuzzy Dark Matter from Lyman- α Forest Data and Hydrodynamical Simulations

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 119, Issue 3, 2017, Pages

  Iršič, Vid ^a,b,c   Viel, Matteo ^d,e,f   Haehnelt, Martin G ^g   Bolton, James S ^h   Becker, George D ^g,i  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDY   (United States)

^c ABDUS SALAM INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR THEORETICAL PHYSICS   (Italy)

^d SISSA   (Italy)

^e INAF OSSERVATORIO ASTRONOMICO DI TRIESTE   (Italy)

^f SEZIONE DI TRIESTE   (Italy)

^g UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^h UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

ⁱ AURA for the European Space Agency   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BOSON; COLD STRESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FOREST; PHYSICAL PARAMETERS; POWER SPECTRUM; SIMULATION;

EID: 85026916412     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.119.031302     Document Type: Article

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