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Studying Dark Matter Through the Lens of the Reionisation

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Stars are not eternal: they are known to go through a series of phases, from their births in gaseous nebulae to their often cataclysmic ends and final transformation into stellar remnants.

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    This ratio is equal to \(Y_P/(K(1-Y_P))\), with \(K\simeq 3.9715\) the ratio of the helium-4 atomic mass to the hydrogen mass, and \(Y_P\) the primordial helium abundance (the latest value of this parameter was determined by [30], to be \(0.24771\pm 0.00014\)) which yields \(f_\mathrm{He}\sim 0.08\).

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    Of course, this simple model would have two less parameters (the DM ones), i.e. two less degrees of freedom that will have to be accounted for when comparing it to the \(\chi ^2\) of the DM models.

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Ilić, S. (2014). Studying Dark Matter Through the Lens of the Reionisation. In: The Large Scale Structures. Springer Theses. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-07746-8_5

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