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Fuzzy dark matter (FDM) consisting of ultra-light axions has been invoked to alleviate galactic-scale problems in the cold dark matter scenario. FDM fluctuations, created via the superposition of waves, can impact the motion of a central…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-10-07 Amr El-Zant , Zacharias Roupas , Joseph Silk

In this paper we review the main and the most recent evidence for the presence of a core radius in the distribution of the dark matter around spiral galaxies. Their rotation curves, coadded according to the galaxy luminosity, conform to an…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Paolo Salucci , Annamaria Borriello

We derive the main physical galaxy properties: mass, halo radius, phase space density and velocity dispersion from a semiclassical gravitational approach in which fermionic WDM is treated quantum mechanically. They turn out to be compatible…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 C. Destri , H. J. de Vega , N. G. Sanchez

The study of the physics of accretion discs developed around the supermassive black hole (BH) candidates are essential theoretical tools to test their nature. Here, we study the accretion flow and associated emission using generalised…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-05-01 C. Millauro , C. R. Argüelles , F. L. Vieyro , V. Crespi , M. F. Mestre

Stellar streams are essential tracers of the gravitational potential of the Milky Way, with key implications to the problem of dark matter (DM) model distributions, either within or beyond phenomenological $\Lambda$CDM halos. For the first…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-07-23 Santiago Collazo , Martín F. Mestre , Carlos R. Argüelles

We have recently introduced in paper I an extension of the Ruffini-Arg\"uelles-Rueda (RAR) model for the distribution of DM in galaxies, by including for escape of particle effects. Being built upon self-gravitating fermions at finite…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-02-05 C. R. Argüelles , A. Krut , J. A. Rueda , R. Ruffini

We study the distribution of fermionic dark matter at the center of galaxies using NFW, Moore and isothermal density profiles and show that dark matter becomes degenerate for particle masses of a few {\rm keV} and for distances less than a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-12-02 Faustin Munyaneza , Peter L. Biermann

If cold dark matter is present at the galactic center, as in current models of the dark halo, it is accreted by the central black hole into a dense spike. Particle dark matter then annihilates strongly inside the spike, making it a compact…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Paolo Gondolo , Joseph Silk

Supermassive black holes from the center of galaxy may be immersed in a dark matter halo. This dark matter halo may form a "cusp" structure around the black hole and disappear at a certain distance from the black hole. Based on this…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-07-11 Dong Liu , Yi Yang , Ali Övgün , Zheng-Wen Long , Zhaoyi Xu

The dark matter distribution in dwarf galaxies holds a wealth of information on the fundamental properties and interactions of the dark matter particle. In this paper, we study whether ultralight bosonic dark matter is consistent with the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-01-26 Isabelle S. Goldstein , Savvas M. Koushiappas , Matthew G. Walker

(Abridged) Axisymmetric models of the Milky Way exhibit strong interrelations between the Galactic constants (R_0 and T_0), the stellar columndensity (S_*) and the shape of the dark matter (DM) halo. Here we present analytical relations…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 R. P. Olling , M. R. Merrifield

A wide range of mechanisms predict present-day s-wave dark matter (DM) annihilation cross-sections that are orders of magnitude below current experimental sensitivity. We explore the capability of DM density spikes around the Milky Way's…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-07-29 Barry T. Chiang , Stuart L. Shapiro , Jessie Shelton

All presently known stellar-dynamical constraints on the size and mass of the supermassive compact dark object at the Galactic center are consistent with a ball of self-gravitating, nearly non-interacting, degenerate fermions with mass…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Neven Bilic , Gary B. Tupper , Raoul D. Viollier

We have studied the dark matter (DM) distribution in a approx 10^12 h^-1 M_sun mass halo extracted from a simulation consistent with the concordance cosmology, where the physics regulating the transformation of gas into stars was allowed to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 Susana E. Pedrosa , Patricia B. Tissera , Cecilia Scannapieco

Cosmological models in which dark matter consists of cold elementary particles predict that the dark halo population should extend to masses many orders of magnitude below those at which galaxies can form. Here we report a cosmological…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-09-23 Jie Wang , Sownak Bose , Carlos S. Frenk , Liang Gao , Adrian Jenkins , Volker Springel , Simon D. M. White

One of the predictions of the standard CDM is that dark haloes have centrally divergent density profiles. An extensive body of rotation curve observations of dwarf and low surface brightness galaxies shows the dark haloes of those systems…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 C. Firmani , E. D'Onghia , G. Chincarini , X. Hernandez , V. Avila-Reese

We combine 10 high resolution resimulations of cluster--sized dark haloes with semi--analytic galaxy formation modelling in order to compare the number density and velocity dispersion profiles of cluster galaxies with those of dark matter…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-09-25 Liang Gao , Gabriella De Lucia , Simon D. M. White , Adrian Jenkins

Matter and dark matter in galaxies represent two main components linked by the gravitational interaction. Collisions of galaxies may create an offset between the centers of mass of these components. Ignoring internal dynamics of particles…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-05-27 V. V. Flambaum , I. B. Samsonov

We investigate the strong gravitational lensing properties of fuzzy dark matter (FDM) halos, focusing on the magnification properties near radial critical curves (CCs). Using simulated lenses we compute magnification maps for a range of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-28 J. M. Palencia , Paloma Morilla , Sung Kei Li , J. M. Diego , Amruth Alfred , Thomas J. Broadhurst , B. J. Kavanagh , Jeremy Lim

Annihilation of Dark Matter (DM) particles has been recognized as one of the possible mechanisms for the production of non-thermal particles and radiation in galaxy clusters. Previous studies have shown that, while DM models can reproduce…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-11-21 P. Marchegiani , S. Colafrancesco