Early Formation of Dark Matter Halos
- Date
- November 24 (Fri) at 14:00 - 15:15, 2023 (JST)
- Speaker
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- Derek Beattie Inman (Research Scientist, iTHEMS)
- Venue
- Seminar Room #359 (Main Venue)
- via Zoom
- Language
- English
- Host
- Shigehiro Nagataki
Cosmological observations have led to an extremely precise understanding of the large-scale structure of the Universe. A common assumption is to extrapolate large-scale properties to smaller scales; however, whether this is correct or not is unknown and many well-motivated early Universe scenarios predict substantially different structure formation histories. In this seminar I will discuss two scenarios where nonlinear structures form much earlier than is typically assumed. In the first case, the initial fluctuations are enhanced on small scales leading to either primordial black holes clusters or WIMP minihalos right after matter-radiation equality. In the second, I will show that an additional attractive dark force leads to structure formation even in the radiation dominated Universe. I will furthermore discuss possible observations of such early structure formation including changes to the cosmic microwave background, dark matter annihilation, and when the first galaxies form.
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