Andrea V. Maccio', Oleg Ruchayskiy, Alexey Boyarsky, Juan C. Munoz-Cuartas
We analyze the properties of dark matter halos in the cold-plus-warm dark
matter cosmologies (CWDM). We study their dependence on the fraction and
velocity dispersion of the warm particle, keeping the free-streaming scale
fixed. To this end we consider three models with the same free-streaming:(1) a
mixture of 90% of CDM and 10% of WDM with the mass 1 keV; (2) a mixture of 50%
of CDM and 50% of WDM with the mass 5 keV; and (3) pure WDM with the mass 10
keV. Warm particles have rescaled Fermi-Dirac spectrum of primordial velocities
(as non-resonantly produced sterile neutrinos would have). We compare the
properties of halos among these models and with LCDM with the same cosmological
parameters. We demonstrate, that although these models have the same
free-streaming length and the suppression of matter spectra are similar at
scales probed by the Lyman-alpha forest (comoving wave-numbers k < 3-5 (h/Mpc),
the resulting properties of halos with masses below ~1e11 M_sun are different
due to the different behaviour of matter power spectra at smaller scales. In
particular, we find that while the number of galaxies remains the same as in
LCDM case, their density profiles become much less concentrated. Our results
imply that a single parameter (e.g. free streaming length) description of these
models is not enough to fully capture their effects on the structure formation
process.
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http://arxiv.org/abs/1202.2858
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