Repository for extended dark matter object constraints

TL;DR

This paper introduces a comprehensive repository and a standardized framework for constraining extended dark matter objects (EDOs), facilitating consistent analysis of their properties and impacts across cosmology.

Contribution

It provides a unified repository of bounds on EDOs, a code for plotting combined constraints, and a standard for their mass profiles to ensure consistency.

Findings

Repository consolidates all current bounds on EDOs.

Code enables visualization of combined constraints for various shapes and sizes.

Standardized mass profiles improve consistency across studies.

Abstract

Extended dark matter objects (EDOs) are popular dark matter candidates that interact gravitationally with the Standard Model. These gravitational interactions can be used to constrain their allowed parameter space. However, EDOs can have different formation mechanisms, sizes, and shapes, requiring a case-by-case analysis when studying their impact on different areas of cosmology. We thus present a repository of all available bounds for these objects, with a code that allows plotting user-defined combinations of all up-to-date bounds for a given shape and different radii. We propose a standard for the EDOs' mass profiles so that different sets of bounds are consistent with each other, and provide instructions on using the code and contributing to the repository.