Fuzzy dark matter and the Dark Energy Survey Year 1 data
Fuzzy dark matter and the Dark Energy Survey Year 1 data
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模糊暗物质和暗能量调查第一年数据
DOI:
10.1093/mnras/stac1946
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发表时间:
2022
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4.8
通讯作者:
Dentler M
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作者:
Dentler M
Gravitational weak lensing by dark matter haloes leads to a measurable imprint in the shear correlation function of galaxies. Fuzzy dark matter (FDM), composed of ultralight axion-like particles of massm∼ 10−22eV, suppresses the matter power spectrum and shear correlation with respect to standard cold dark matter. We model the effect of FDM on cosmic shear using the optimized halo modelHMCode, accounting for additional suppression of the mass function and halo concentration in FDM as observed inN-body simulations. We combine Dark Energy Survey Year 1 (DES-Y1) data with thePlanckcosmic microwave background anisotropies to search for shear correlation suppression caused by FDM. We find no evidence of suppression compared to the preferred cold dark matter model, and thus set a new lower limit to the FDM particle mass. Using a log-flat prior and marginalizing over uncertainties related to the non-linear model of FDM, we find a new, independent 95 per cent C.L. lower limit log10m> −23 combiningPlanckand DES-Y1 shear, an improvement of almost two orders of magnitude on the mass bound relative to CMB-only constraints. Our analysis is largely independent of baryonic modelling, and of previous limits to FDM covering this mass range. Our analysis highlights the most important aspects of the FDM non-linear model for future investigation. The limit to FDM from weak lensing could be improved by up to three orders of magnitude witharcmin cosmic shear angular resolution, if FDM and baryonic feedback can be simultaneously modelled to high precision in the halo model.