Limits on the dark matter particle mass from black hole growth in galaxies
Abstract
I review the properties of degenerate fermion balls and investigate the dark matter distribution at galactic centers using NFW, Moore and isothermal density profiles. I show that dark matter becomes degenerate for particles masses of a few keV at distances less than a few parsec from the center of our galaxy. To explain the galactic center black hole of mass of and a supermassive black hole of at a redshift of 6.41 in SDSS quasars, the mass of the fermion ball is assumed to be between and . This constrains the mass of the dark matter particle between and . The lower limit on the dark matter mass is improved to about {\rm 6 keV} if exact solutions of Poisson's equation are used in the isothermal power law case. The constrained dark matter particle could be interpreted as a sterile neutrino.
Cite
@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0702167,
title = {Limits on the dark matter particle mass from black hole growth in galaxies},
author = {Faustin Munyaneza},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0702167},
year = {2016}
}
Comments
3 pages, To be published in Proceedings of the 11th Marcel Grossmann meeting on general relativity, 23-29 July 2006, Berlin, Germany