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2007ApJ...658..859C - Astrophys. J., 658, 859-864 (2007/April-1)

Heating of the intergalactic medium by the radiative decay of neutrinos.

CHAN M.H. and CHU M.-C.

Abstract (from CDS):

Assuming that there exists a species of heavy sterile neutrinos (mν>1 keV) and that their decays can serve as a heating source for the hot gas in galaxy clusters, we study how the observational constraints on cooling flow limit the masses of these sterile neutrinos. We predict a relation among the luminosity, the total mass, and the redshift of a cluster, and we compare this relation with data from 12 clusters to obtain an estimate of the decay rate of sterile neutrinos.

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Journal keyword(s): Cosmology: Dark Matter

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