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Dwarf spheroidal (dSph) galaxies are prime targets for present and future gamma-ray telescopes hunting for indirect signals of particle dark matter. The interpretation of the data requires careful assessment of their dark matter content in…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-09-10 V. Bonnivard , C. Combet , M. Daniel , S. Funk , A. Geringer-Sameth , J. A. Hinton , D. Maurin , J. I. Read , S. Sarkar , M. G. Walker , M. I. Wilkinson

Fluid and ultralight bosonic dark matter can interact through gravity to form stable fermion-boson stars, which are static and regular mixed solutions of the Einstein-Euler-(complex, massive) Klein-Gordon system. In this work we study the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-04-27 Nicolas Sanchis-Gual , Paula Izquierdo

We consider an alternative cold dark matter candidate, ultralight bosons ($m>10^{-22}$eV) described by a complex scalar field (SFDM) with global U(1) symmetry, with comoving particle number density conserved after particle production during…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-09-13 Bohua Li , Paul R. Shapiro , Tanja Rindler-Daller

Boson Stars are macroscopic self-gravitating configurations made of complex scalar fields. These exotic compact objects would manifest as dark Boson stars and, in the absence of electromagnetic signatures, could mimic properties of compact…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-02-09 Swarnim Shirke , Bikram Keshari Pradhan , Debarati Chatterjee , Laura Sagunski , Jürgen Schaffner-Bielich

We present a model for the dark matter in spiral galaxies, which is a result of a static and axial symmetric exact solution of the Einstein-Dilaton theory. We suposse that dark matter is a scalar field endowed with a scalar potential. We…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-04-06 F. Siddhartha Guzman , Tonatiuh Matos

We investigate Scalar Field Wave Dark Matter in the context of galactic Dark Matter halos. In particular, we offer an analysis of the Baryonic Tully-Fisher Relation (BTFR). We detail a particular family of excited state solutions to the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-04-17 Benjamin Hamm

The predicted size of dark matter substructures in kilo-parsec scales is model-dependent. Therefore, if the correlations between dark matter mass densities as a function of the distances between them are measured via observations, we can…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-08-02 Ahmad Borzou

Mass estimates of white dwarfs via electromagnetic methods, often differ from those obtained through gravitational redshift measurements, in some cases with discrepancies ranging in $5-15\%$ across independent datasets. Although many of the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-11-04 Jorge Castelo Mourelle , Nicolas Sanchis-Gual , José A. Font , Juan Calderón Bustillo

Wave Dark Matter (WaveDM) has recently gained attention as a viable candidate to account for the dark matter content of the Universe. In this paper we explore the extent to which dark matter halos in this model, and under what conditions,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-02-08 Antonio Herrera-Martín , Martin Hendry , Alma X. Gonzalez-Morales , L. Arturo Ureña-López

In this paper, we present two observations about static spherically symmetric solutions of the Einstein-Klein-Gordon equations. The first is a comment extending the well-known result of the existence of static states (i.e. standing wave…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-03-09 Alan R. Parry

In this work we propose a universal basic mass density and a universal basic metric inside dark matter halos in the framework of Einstein equations providing an analytical ground for learning about dark matter. In a previous work the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-07-02 Fateen Haddad , Nidal Haddad

An ultralight scalar boson with mass $m_1 \simeq 10^{-22}$ eV is gaining credence as a Dark Matter (DM) candidate that explains the dark cores of dwarf galaxies as soliton waves. Such a boson is naturally interpreted as an axion generic in…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-02-24 Hoang Nhan Luu , S. -H. Henry Tye , Tom Broadhurst

The nature of the cosmological dark matter remains elusive. Recent studies have advocated the possibility that dark matter could be composed of ultra-light, self-interacting bosons, forming a Bose-Einstein condensate in the very early…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-04-22 Tanja Rindler-Daller , Paul R. Shapiro

The newly established luminosity functions of high-z galaxies at $4 \lesssim z \lesssim 10$ can provide a stringent check on dark matter models that aim to explain the core properties of dwarf galaxies. The cores of dwarf spheroidal…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-02-17 Hsi-Yu Schive , Tzihong Chiueh , Tom Broadhurst , Kuan-Wei Huang

An ultralight scalar field is one of the dark matter candidates. If it couples with Standard Model particles, it oscillates mirrors in gravitational-wave detectors and generates detectable signals. We study the spectra of the signals taking…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-12-18 Soichiro Morisaki , Teruaki Suyama

Dark matter (DM) halos of Sc-Im galaxies satisfy scaling laws analogous to the fundamental plane relations for elliptical galaxies. Halos in less luminous galaxies have smaller core radii, higher central densities, and smaller central…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-22 John Kormendy , K. C. Freeman

We consider dark masses measured from kinematic tracers at discrete radii in galaxies for which baryonic contributions to overall potentials are either subtracted or negligible. Recent work indicates that rotation curves due to dark matter…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-18 Matthew G. Walker , Stacy S. McGaugh , Mario Mateo , Edward Olszewski , Rachel Kuzio de Naray

We present an overview of recent developments in the detection of light bosonic dark matter, including axion, pseudoscalar axion-like and scalar dark matter, which form either a coherently oscillating classical field or topological defects…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2015-09-04 Y. V. Stadnik , V. V. Flambaum

Motivated by the collisionless cold dark matter small scale structure problem, we propose an asymmetric dark matter model where dark matter particle interact with each other via a massive dark gauge boson. This model easily avoid the strong…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-05-31 Zien Chen , Kairui Ye , Mengchao Zhang

There is a strong possibility that the particles making up the dark matter in the Universe have a mass below 1 eV and in many important situations exhibit a wave-like behavior. Amongst the candidates the axion stands out as particularly…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-09-20 Joerg Jaeckel , Gray Rybka , Lindley Winslow