Article ID Journal Published Year Pages File Type
8197881 Physics Letters B 2006 6 Pages PDF
Abstract
We propose to observe QSO-galaxy strong lens systems to give a new constraint on the damping scale of the initial fluctuations. We find that the future observation of submilliarc scale astrometric shifts of the multiple lensed images of QSOs would find ∼10(3-9)M⊙ subhalos inside the macrolens halo. The superweakly interacting massive particles (superWIMPs) produced from a WIMP decay and the warm dark matter (WDM) particles that predict a comoving damping scale larger than ∼2kpc can be constrained if ∼103M⊙ subhalos are detected.
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