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Limits on the dark matter particle mass from black hole growth in galaxies

Astrophysics 2016-11-15 v1

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 3.5×106M\sim 3.5 \times 10^{6}M_{\odot} and a supermassive black hole of 3×109M\sim 3 \times 10^{9}M_{\odot} at a redshift of 6.41 in SDSS quasars, the mass of the fermion ball is assumed to be between 3×103M3 \times 10^{3} M_{\odot} and 3.5×106M3.5 \times 10^{6}M_{\odot}. This constrains the mass of the dark matter particle between 0.6keV0.6 {\rm keV} and 82keV82 {\rm keV}. 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.

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@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}
}

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3 pages, To be published in Proceedings of the 11th Marcel Grossmann meeting on general relativity, 23-29 July 2006, Berlin, Germany