Searching for Dark Matter in the CMB: A Compact Parameterization of Energy Injection from New Physics
Douglas P. Finkbeiner, Silvia Galli, Tongyan Lin, & Tracy R. Slatyer 2011


This work is partially supported by NASA Theory grant NNX10AD85G, NSF grant AST-0807444, and DOE grant DE-FG02-90ER40542.


Energy Injection And Absorption In The Cosmic Dark Ages
Tracy R. Slatyer 2012


This work is partially supported by NSF grants PHY-0969448 and AST-0807444.


Indirect Dark Matter Signatures In The Cosmic Dark Ages
Tracy R. Slatyer 2015

This work demonstrates how to estimate the Planck-based CMB bounds on arbitrary models of (s-wave) annihilating dark matter (Paper I). More generally (Paper II), it provides the detailed breakdown of the low-energy electrons and photons produced by high-energy photons, electrons and positrons injected into the universe during the cosmic dark ages, and an estimate of the resulting ionization, heating and spectral distortion.


This work is supported by the U.S. Department of Energy under grant Contract Numbers DE-SC00012567 and DE-SC0013999.


General Constraints on Dark Matter Decay from the Cosmic Microwave Background
Tracy R. Slatyer and Chih-Liang Wu 2016

This work demonstrates how to estimate the Planck-based CMB bounds on arbitrary models of decaying dark matter (or other metastable species).


This work is supported by the U.S. Department of Energy under grant Contract Numbers DE-SC00012567 and DE-SC0013999.

Douglas Finkbeiner, dfinkbeiner@cfa.harvard.edu