Abstract
We have proposed a novel way to constrain the neutrino mass using UV luminosity function (LF) of high-z Lyman break galaxies. Combining the constraints from the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe 7 year (WMAP-7) data with the LF data at z ~ 4, we have got a limit on the sum of the masses of 3 degenerate neutrinos at the 95 % CL. The additional constraint of using the prior on Hubble constant strengthens this limit to at 95 % CL. As different astronomical measurements may suffer from different set of biases, the method presented here provides a complementary probe of sum of neutrino masses.
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