Dark Matter and Stars in the Dark Ages

Project Information

DAMIDA

Grant agreement ID: 235878

Project closed

Start date 12 November 2009

End date 11 November 2011

Funded under

• Specific programme "People" implementing the Seventh Framework Programme of the European Community for research, technological development and demonstration activities (2007 to 2013)

Total cost No data

EU contribution € 157 279,59

Coordinated by

CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE CNRS
France

Objective

The possibility that the first stars in the universe may be powered by dark matter annihilation rather than nuclear fusion has been recently proposed in the literature. This intriguing phenomenology defines a new field, in which particle dark matter properties affect the characteristics of astrophysical populations in the young universe. In DAMiDA we propose a thorough approach to the problem: stellar evolution in the presence of dark matter annihilation, the survival of these stars through the evolution of the first galaxies, the nature and impact of the feedback of these objects on the formation and evolution of subsequent structures will all be addressed with different techniques. The final aim is to provide links between dark matter properties and astrophysical observables of high redshift. This will allow the particle and astro physics communities to either use forthcoming astrophysical data, provided by means of planned observational campaigns to constrain the nature of elusive dark matter, and particle experiments aimed to study the nature of dark matter to shed light on the high redshift universe.

Fields of science (EuroSciVoc)

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• natural sciences › physical sciences › astronomy › astrophysics › dark matter
• natural sciences › physical sciences › nuclear physics › nuclear fusion

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Programme(s)

• FP7-PEOPLE - Specific programme "People" implementing the Seventh Framework Programme of the European Community for research, technological development and demonstration activities (2007 to 2013)

Topic(s)

• FP7-PEOPLE-IEF-2008 - Marie Curie Action: "Intra-European Fellowships for Career Development"

Call for proposal

FP7-PEOPLE-IEF-2008
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Funding Scheme

MC-IEF - Intra-European Fellowships (IEF)

Coordinator

CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE CNRS

• EU contribution: € 157 279,59
• Address: RUE MICHEL ANGE 3 ; 75794 Paris ; France
• Region: Ile-de-France › Ile-de-France › Hauts-de-Seine
• Activity type: Research Organisations
• Total cost: No data