Early galaxy formation and its large-scale effects

P Dayal, A Ferrara - Physics Reports, 2018 - Elsevier
Galaxy formation is at the heart of our understanding of cosmic evolution. Although there is a
consensus that galaxies emerged from the expanding matter background by gravitational …

Status, challenges and directions in indirect dark matter searches

C Pérez de los Heros - Symmetry, 2020 - mdpi.com
Indirect searches for dark matter are based on detecting an anomalous flux of photons,
neutrinos or cosmic-rays produced in annihilations or decays of dark matter candidates …

Hydrogen epoch of reionization array (HERA)

DR DeBoer, AR Parsons, JE Aguirre… - Publications of the …, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract The Hydrogen Epoch of Reionization Array (HERA) is a staged experiment to
measure 21 cm emission from the primordial intergalactic medium (IGM) throughout cosmic …

HERA phase I limits on the cosmic 21 cm signal: constraints on astrophysics and cosmology during the epoch of reionization

Z Abdurashidova, JE Aguirre, P Alexander… - The Astrophysical …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract Recently, the Hydrogen Epoch of Reionization Array (HERA) has produced the
experiment's first upper limits on the power spectrum of 21 cm fluctuations at z∼ 8 and 10 …

Cosmological constraints on exotic injection of electromagnetic energy

V Poulin, J Lesgourgues… - Journal of Cosmology and …, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
We compute cosmic microwave background (CMB) anisotropy constraints on exotic forms of
energy injection in electromagnetic (em) channels over a large range of timescales. We …

[HTML][HTML] Snowmass2021 theory frontier white paper: Astrophysical and cosmological probes of dark matter

KK Boddy, M Lisanti, SD McDermott, NL Rodd… - Journal of High Energy …, 2022 - Elsevier
While astrophysical and cosmological probes provide a remarkably precise and consistent
picture of the quantity and general properties of dark matter, its fundamental nature remains …

Exotic energy injection in the early Universe. II. CMB spectral distortions and constraints on light dark matter

H Liu, W Qin, GW Ridgway, TR Slatyer - Physical Review D, 2023 - APS
We calculate the post-recombination contribution to the cosmic microwave background
(CMB) spectral distortion due to general exotic energy injections, including dark matter (DM) …

Simultaneously constraining the astrophysics of reionization and the epoch of heating with 21CMMC

B Greig, A Mesinger - Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
The cosmic 21 cm signal is set to revolutionize our understanding of the early Universe,
allowing us to probe the 3D temperature and ionization structure of the intergalactic medium …

CMB and Lyman-α constraints on dark matter decays to photons

F Capozzi, RZ Ferreira… - Journal of Cosmology …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Dark matter energy injection in the early universe modifies both the ionization history and
the temperature of the intergalactic medium. In this work, we improve the CMB bounds on …

Implications of a 21-cm signal for dark matter annihilation and decay

H Liu, TR Slatyer - Physical Review D, 2018 - APS
Measurements of the temperature of the baryons at the end of the cosmic dark ages can
potentially set very precise constraints on energy injection from exotic sources, such as …