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Can sterile neutrinos be ruled out as warm dark matter candidates?

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arxiv astro-ph/0605706 v2 pith:DHNJNPNK submitted 2006-05-30 astro-ph hep-phhep-th

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We present constraints on the mass of warm dark matter (WDM) particles from a combined analysis of the matter power spectrum inferred from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey \lya flux power spectrum at 2.2<z<4.2, cosmic microwave background data, and the galaxy power spectrum. We obtain a lower limit of m~10 keV (2 sigma) if the WDM consists of sterile neutrinos and m~2 keV (2 sigma) for early decoupled thermal relics. If we combine this bound with the constraint derived from x-ray flux observations in the Coma cluster, we find that the allowed sterile neutrino mass is ~10 keV (in the standard production scenario). Adding constraints based on x-ray fluxes from the Andromeda galaxy, we find that dark matter particles cannot be sterile neutrinos, unless they are produced by a nonstandard mechanism (resonant oscillations, coupling with the inflaton) or get diluted by some large entropy release.

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