WDM Simulations: Matter Distribution
Gas density distribution
From a set of simulations (\(L=50\,h^{-1}\mathrm{Mpc}\), \(N=1024^{3}\)) I measure the volume weighted distribution of the gas overdensity \(\Delta\) at different redshits and for several warm Dar Matter masses and CDM. As shown, the volume with densities close to the mean density increases for lower WDM masses, this explains the increase \(HI\) opacity of the IGM meassured for low WDM mass simulations
Transmitted Cumulative distribution
Now I show the distribution of the Lya Transmitted Flux from the simulations, the vertical lines correspond to the mean transmitted flux showing that the IGM is more opaque for lower masses of the WDM.
DM density power_spectrum
Now I measure the power spectrum of the Dark Matter density fluctuations. WDM suppresses the power on small scales but it doesn’t affect the large scales.
Gas density power_spectrum
Now I measure the power spectrum of the Gas density fluctuations.