Evidence against the Sciama model of radiative decay of massive neutrinos

Jun, 1999
9 pages
Published in:
  • Astrophys.J. 526 (1999) 10
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Abstract: (arXiv)
We report on spectral observations of the night sky in the band around 900 angstroms where the emission line in the Sciama model of radiatively decaying massive neutrinos would be present. The data were obtained with a high resolution, high sensitivity spectrometer flown on the Spanish MINISAT satellite. The observed emission is far less intense than that expected in the Sciama model.
  • cosmological model
  • neutrino: massive
  • neutrino: radiative decay
  • photon: energy spectrum
  • spectrometer: experimental results
  • satellite