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Reheating effects in the matter power spectrum and implications for substructure

Reheating effects in the matter power spectrum and implications for substructure

The thermal and expansion history of the Universe before big bang nucleosynthesis is unknown. We investigate the evolution of cosmological perturbations through the transition from an early matter era to radiation domination. We treat reheating as the perturbative decay of an oscillating scalar field into relativistic plasma and cold dark …