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A&A
Volume 672, April 2023
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Article Number | A71 | |
Number of page(s) | 9 | |
Section | Extragalactic astronomy | |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/202345851 | |
Published online | 31 March 2023 |
JWST high-redshift galaxy constraints on warm and cold dark matter models
1
INAF-Italian National Institute of Astrophysics, Observatory of Trieste, via G. Tiepolo 11, 34143
Trieste, Italy
e-mail: umberto.maio@inaf.it
2
SISSA – International School for Advanced Studies, Via Bonomea 265, 34136
Trieste, Italy
3
IFPU, Institute for Fundamental Physics of the Universe, Via Beirut 2, 34151
Trieste, Italy
4
INFN, Sezione di Trieste, Via Valerio 2, 34127
Trieste, Italy
Received:
5
January
2023
Accepted:
16
February
2023
Context. Warm dark matter is a possible alternative to cold dark matter to explain cosmological structure formation.
Aims. We study the implications of the latest JWST data on the nature of dark matter.
Methods. We compare properties of high-redshift galaxies observed by JWST with hydrodynamical simulations, in the standard cold dark matter model and in warm dark matter models with a suppressed linear matter power spectrum
Results. We find that current data are neither in tension with cold dark matter nor with warm dark matter models with mWDM > 2 keV, since they probe bright and rare objects whose physical properties are similar in the different scenarios.
Conclusions. We also show how two observables, the galaxy luminosity functions and the galaxy correlation function at small scales of faint objects, can be promising tools for discriminating between the different dark-matter scenarios. Further hints may come from early stellar-mass statistics and galaxy CO emission.
Key words: galaxies: formation / galaxies: high-redshift / cosmology: theory / dark matter
© The Authors 2023
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