Impact of dark matter on reionization and heating
M. Mapelli, E. Ripamonti
Abstract
We derived the evolution of the energy deposition in the intergalactic medium (IGM) by different decaying (or annihilating) dark matter (DM) candidates. Heavy annihilating DM particles (with mass larger than a few GeV) have no influence on reionization and heating, even if we assume that all the energy emitted by annihilations is absorbed by the IGM. In the case of lighter particles, the impact on reionization and heating depends on the efficiency of energy absorption by the IGM. We calculated the fraction of energy produced by decays and annihilations which is effectively absorbed by the IGM. We found that this fraction is generally high at very high redshift (>>100), but drops at more recent epochs.
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