Bounds on Light Dark Matter

Abstract

In this talk we review existing cosmological and astrophysical bounds on light (with the mass in keV - MeV range) and super-weakly interacting dark matter candidates. A particular attention is paid to the sterile neutrino DM candidate.

5 pages, 3 figures. Contribution to the proceedings of 4th Patras Workshop on Axions, WIMPs and WISPs, DESY, Hamburg, Germany, 18-21 June 2008

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• Small-scale structure formation properties of chilled sterile neutrinos as dark matter

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