1–5 Jun 2026
Paraninfo, University of Zaragoza
Europe/Madrid timezone

Non-Cold dark matter from Burdened Black Holes

4 Jun 2026, 11:30
20m
Pilar Sinués

Pilar Sinués

Oral presentation Cosmology DM Parallel Session - Cosmology II

Speaker

Laura Lopez Honorez

Description

Non-cold dark-matter particles can arise from the evaporation of primordial black holes (PBHs). In this talk, I'll discuss how memory-burden effect, that delays the full evaporation of black holes, affects the Lyman-α bound on such non-cold dark-matter particles. In the latter framework, PBH evaporation generically leads to two distinct dark-
matter populations with different velocity dispersions, which can imprint observable signatures on the matter power spectrum and impact small-scale overdensities. This is used to reinterpret Lyman-α forest constraints for thermal warm dark matter. In particular, I'll show that even subdominant non-cold dark-matter particle components from PBH evaporation can be constrained and confirm that non-cold dark-matter can only account for all the dark matter in the absence of PBH domination, as in the semi-classical case.

Main Contribution topic Cosmology Dark Matter
Secondary contribution topic Astrophysical observations

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