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The impact of dark matter-baryon relative velocity on the 21cm forest

, , and . (2022)cite arxiv:2212.08409Comment: 8pages, 5 figures.

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We study the effect of the relative velocity between the dark matter (DM) and the baryon on the 21cm forest signals. The DM-baryon relative velocity arises due to their different evolutions before the baryon-photon decoupling epoch and it gives an additional anisotropic pressure that can suppress the perturbation growth. It is intriguing that the scales $kO(10\sim 10^3)h/Mpc$ at which the matter power spectrum is affected by such a streaming velocity turns out to be the scale at which the 21cm forest signal is sensitive to. We demonstrate that the 21cm absorption line abundance can decrease by more than a factor of a few due to the small-scale matter power spectrum suppression caused by the DM-baryon relative velocity.

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The impact of dark matter-baryon relative velocity on the 21cm forest

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