7 papers
Improved Big Bang Nucleosynthesis constraints on decaying massive relics
Sara Bianco, Jonas Frerick, Marco Hufnagel +1
We present updated and improved Big Bang Nucleosynthesis (BBN) constraints on heavy, long-lived beyond the Standard Model (BSM) relics decaying into pairs of Standard Model pa…
The Cosmological Simulation Code OpenGadget3 - Implementation of Self-Interacting Dark Matter
Moritz S. Fischer, Marc Wiertel, Cenanda Arido +7
Dark matter (DM) could be subject to non-gravitational self-interactions which is relevant to resolve potential problems of cold DM on small scales. Their impact on astrophysical o…
Tuning the violins: dark sector phase transition models for the PTA signal
Torsten Bringmann, Thomas Konstandin, Jonas Matuszak +2
First-order phase transitions in a dark sector have been invoked as an intriguing possibility to explain the observed stochastic gravitational wave background at nanohertz frequenc…
Signals of merging supermassive primordial black holes in pulsar timing arrays
Paul Frederik Depta, Kai Schmidt-Hoberg, Pedro Schwaller +1
In this work we evaluate whether the gravitational wave background recently observed by a number of different pulsar timing arrays could be due to merging primordial supermassive b…
Accretion of self-interacting dark matter onto supermassive black holes
V. M. Sabarish, Marcus Brüggen, Kai Schmidt-Hoberg +1
Dark matter (DM) spikes around supermassive black holes (SMBHs) may lead to interesting physical effects such as enhanced DM annihilation signals or dynamical friction within binar…
Photo- and Hadrodisintegration constraints on massive relics decaying into neutrinos
Sara Bianco, Paul Frederik Depta, Jonas Frerick +3
We perform a detailed study of the cosmological constraints on the decay of a relic particle into neutrinos, , in particular those arising from the obs…