135 citations · 182 across the 2 of their papers we have counts for
3 papers
astro-ph.CO2011
Axion BEC Dark Matter
Ozgur Erken, Pierre Sikivie, Heywood Tam +1
Cold dark matter axions thermalize through gravitational self-interactions and form a Bose-Einstein condensate when the photon temperature reaches approximately 500 eV. Axion Bose-…
astro-ph.CO2011★ 135 cited
Cosmic axion thermalization
O. Erken, P. Sikivie, H. Tam +1
Axions differ from the other cold dark matter candidates in that they form a degenerate Bose gas. It is shown that their huge quantum degeneracy and large correlation length cause…
astro-ph.CO2011★ 47 cited
Axion Dark Matter and Cosmological Parameters
O. Erken, P. Sikivie, H. Tam +1
We observe that photon cooling after big bang nucleosynthesis (BBN) but before recombination can remove the conflict between the observed and theoretically predicted value of the p…