Published October 1, 2011 | Version v1
Journal article

Differentiating CDM and baryon isocurvature models with 21 cm fluctuations

  • 1. Institute for Cosmic Ray Research, University of Tokyo, Kashiwa 277-8582 (Japan)
  • 2. Department of Physics, Saga University, Saga 840-8502 (Japan)

Description

We discuss how one can discriminate models with cold dark matter (CDM) and baryon isocurvature fluctuations. Although current observations such as cosmic microwave background (CMB) can severely constrain the fraction of such isocurvature modes in the total density fluctuations, CMB cannot differentiate CDM and baryon ones by the shapes of their power spectra. However, the evolution of CDM and baryon density fluctuations are different for each model, thus it would be possible to discriminate those isocurvature modes by extracting information on the fluctuations of CDM/baryon itself. We discuss that observations of 21 cm fluctuations can in principle differentiate these modes and demonstrate to what extent we can distinguish them with future 21 cm surveys. We show that, when the isocurvature mode has a large blue-tilted initial spectrum, 21 cm surveys can clearly probe the difference

Availability note (English)

Available from http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1475-7516/2011/10/028

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Publishing Information

Journal Title
Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics
Journal Volume
2011
Journal Issue
10
Journal Page Range
p. 028
ISSN
1475-7516

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