期刊
JOURNAL OF COSMOLOGY AND ASTROPARTICLE PHYSICS
卷 -, 期 4, 页码 -出版社
IOP Publishing Ltd
DOI: 10.1088/1475-7516/2019/04/012
关键词
axions; Cosmic strings; domain walls; monopoles; cosmological simulations; dark matter simulations
资金
- Ramon y Cajal Fellowship [201210597]
- MINECO/FEDER [FPA2015-65745-P]
- EU through the ITN Elusives [H2020-MSCA-ITN-2015/674896]
- Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft [SFB1258]
- U.S. National Science Foundation [PHY14-14614]
- European Union [674896]
- STFC [ST/P001246/1] Funding Source: UKRI
We study the small scale structure of axion dark matter in the post-inflationary scenario, which predicts the formation of low-mass, high density clumps of gravitationally bound axions called axion miniclusters. To this end we follow numerically the cosmological evolution of the axion field and the network of strings and domain walls until the density contrast is frozen. Our simulations, comprising up to 8192(3) points, are the largest studies of the axion field evolution in the non-linear regime presented so far. Axitons, pseudo-breathers of the Klein-Gordon equation, are observed to form in our simulation at late times. Studying their properties analytically and numerically, we observe that in particular the earliest axitons contribute to density perturbations at the typical length scale of miniclusters. We analyse the small scale structure of the density field, giving the correlation length, power spectrum and the distribution of high density regions that will collapse into axion miniclusters. The final density field of our simulations can be used to calculate the minicluster mass fraction in simulations including gravity. In particular, we find that typical minicluster progenitors are smaller than previously thought and only of moderate, O(1) overdensity. We expect these miniclusters to have a rich sub-structure, emerging from small-scale fluctuations produced in the collapse of the string-wall network and from axitons.
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