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Dynamical reconstruction of SPARC galactic halos within self-interacting fuzzy dark matter

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics 2026-03-10 v3 Astrophysics of Galaxies

Abstract

Fuzzy Dark Matter with non-zero quartic self-interaction (SFDM) is shown to be a viable model for simultaneously fitting 17 dark-matter-dominated galaxies from the SPARC database with a single (m,g)(m,g) point in the space of boson masses and self-coupling constants: log10(m[eV/c2])=log10(1.98)220.6+0.8\log_{10}\left(m \,[\mathrm{eV}/c^2] \right) = \log_{10}(1.98)-22^{+0.8}_{-0.6} and log10(g[eVm3/kg])=log10(9.08)101.2+0.4\log_{10}\left(g \, [\mathrm{eV \, m}^3/kg] \right) = \log_{10}(9.08)-10^{+0.4}_{-1.2}. This is based on the combination of an appropriately constructed static super-Gaussian profile for the inner galactic core (`soliton') region, and a Navarro-Frenk-White profile for the surrounding halo region. The explicit identification of a non-zero interaction strength may resolve issues of inconsistent constraints in non-interacting FDM. Our identification of these parameters enables the explicit {\em dynamical} reconstruction of potential host halos for such galaxies through numerical solution of the SFDM equations; we outline a {proof-of-principle procedure via merger simulations} for two galaxies (UGCA444, UGC07866), and show that this yields viable rotation curves over a dynamical period of O(1)Gyr{\cal O}(1) \, Gyr.

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@article{arxiv.2502.04838,
  title  = {Dynamical reconstruction of SPARC galactic halos within self-interacting fuzzy dark matter},
  author = {Milos Indjin and I-Kang Liu and Nick P. Proukakis and Gerasimos Rigopoulos and Aditya Verma},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2502.04838},
  year   = {2026}
}

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18 pages, 9 figures