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Fuzzy dark matter fails to explain the dark matter cores

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics 2025-02-18 v1 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

Abstract

Ultrafaint dwarf galaxies (UFDs) are ideal for studying dark matter (DM) due to minimal baryonic effects. UFD observations suggest cored DM profiles. We find that the core radius -- stellar mass scaling predicted by fuzzy dark matter (FDM) is at 6.1σ6.1\sigma tension with UFD observations. Combining observations from 27 UFDs, the required FDM mass ma=3.20.6+0.8×1021eVm_a = 3.2_{-0.6}^{+0.8}\times 10^{-21}\,{\rm eV} is also in conflict with existing Lyman-α\alpha bounds. Our results suggest that FDM cannot provide a consistent explanation for DM cores and imply ma>2.2×1021eVm_a > 2.2\times 10^{-21}\,{\rm eV} at to 2σ2\sigma CL.

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@article{arxiv.2502.12030,
  title  = {Fuzzy dark matter fails to explain the dark matter cores},
  author = {María Benito and Gert Hütsi and Kristjan Müürsepp and Jorge Sánchez~Almeida and Juan Urrutia and Ville Vaskonen and Hardi Veermäe},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2502.12030},
  year   = {2025}
}

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5 pages, 4 figures