Gravitational-wave diffractive lensing, combined statistically across many events, can map the small-scale matter power spectrum through a new frequency-to-scale relation.
Constraining the primordial curvature perturbation using dark matter substructure
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We investigate the primordial curvature perturbation by the observation of dark matter substructure. Assuming a bump in the spectrum of the curvature perturbation in the wavenumber of k>1 Mpc^{-1}, we track the evolution of the host halo and subhalos in a semi-analytic way. Taking into account possible uncertainties in the evaluation of the tidal stripping effect on the subhalo growth, we find a new robust bound on the curvature perturbation with a bump from the number of observed dwarf spheroidal galaxies in our Galaxy and the observations of the stellar stream. The upper limit on the amplitude of the bump is O(10^{-7}) for k~10^3 Mpc^{-1}. Furthermore we find the boost factor, which is crucial for the indirect detection of dark matter signals, is up to O(10^4) due to the bump that is allowed in the current observational bounds.
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Probing small-scale power spectrum with gravitational-wave diffractive lensing
Gravitational-wave diffractive lensing, combined statistically across many events, can map the small-scale matter power spectrum through a new frequency-to-scale relation.