Smallest Remnants of Early Matter Domination

Abstract

The evolution of the universe prior to Big Bang Nucleosynthesis could have gone through a phase of early matter domination (EMD) which enhanced the growth of small-scale dark matter structure. If EMD was long enough, self-gravitating objects formed prior to reheating. We study the evolution of these dense early halos (EHs) through reheating. At the end of EMD, EHs undergo rapid expansion and eventually eject their matter. We find that this process washes out structure on scales much larger than naively expected from the size of the original halos. We compute the density profiles of the EH remnants and use them to construct late-time power spectra that include these non-linear effects. EH dynamics limits the maximum enhancement that can be generated by EMD in a way that is independent of the dark matter microphysics. We evolve an extrapolated $\Lambda$CDM power spectrum to estimate the properties of microhalos that would form after matter-radiation equality. Surprisingly, cosmologies with a short period of EMD lead to an earlier onset of microhalo formation compared to those with a long period of EMD. In either case, dark matter structure formation begins much earlier than in the standard cosmology, with most DM bound in microhalos.

arXiv comment28+15 pages, 14 figures. Expanded discussion to match the published version

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