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Composed of ultralight bosons, fuzzy dark matter provides an intriguing solution to challenges that the standard cold dark matter model encounters on sub-galactic scales. The ultralight dark matter with mass $m\sim10^{-23} \rm{eV}$ will…

Models of Dark Matter (DM) can leave unique imprints on the Universe's small scale structure by boosting density perturbations on small scales. We study the capability of Pulsar Timing Arrays to search for, and constrain, subhalos from such…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-06-30 Vincent S. H. Lee , Andrea Mitridate , Tanner Trickle , Kathryn M. Zurek

We study the ultralight vector dark matter with a mass around $10^{-23}\,\mathrm{eV}$. The vector field oscillating coherently on galactic scales induces oscillations of the spacetime metric with a frequency around nHz, which is detectable…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-05-21 Kimihiro Nomura , Asuka Ito , Jiro Soda

Dark matter substructure on small scales is currently weakly constrained, and its study may shed light on the nature of the dark matter. In this work we study the gravitational effects of dark matter substructure on measured pulsar phases…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-01-06 Harikrishnan Ramani , Tanner Trickle , Kathryn M. Zurek

Pulsar timing arrays (PTAs) consisting of widely distributed and well-timed millisecond pulsars can serve as a galactic interferometer to measure gravitational waves. With the same data acquired for PTAs, we propose to develop pulsar…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-08-02 Tao Liu , Xuzixiang Lou , Jing Ren

We examine the capability of pulsar timing arrays (PTAs) to detect very small-scale clumps of dark matter (DM), which are a natural outcome of the standard cold dark matter (CDM) paradigm. A clump streaming near the Earth or a pulsar…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-01-25 Kazumi Kashiyama , Masamune Oguri

We explore the impact of spin 0, spin 1 and spin 2 ultralight dark Matter (ULDM) on small scales by numerically solving the Schr\"odinger-Poisson system using the time-split method. We perform simulations of ULDM for each spin, starting…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-03 Jessica N. López-Sánchez , Erick Munive-Villa , Constantinos Skordis , Federico R. Urban

We investigate observational signatures of ultralight vector dark matter with masses $m \sim 10^{-24}$-$10^{-22}$ eV in pulsar timing arrays, taking into account general polarization states of the vector field. We find that vector dark…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-16 Kimihiro Nomura , Hidetoshi Omiya , Takahiro Tanaka

If ultra-light dark matter (ULDM) exists and couples to neutrinos, the neutrino oscillation probability might be significantly altered by a parametric resonance. This resonance can occur if the typical frequency of neutrino…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-03-22 Marta Losada , Yosef Nir , Gilad Perez , Inbar Savoray , Yogev Shpilman

Fluctuations in ultralight dark matter produce significant metric perturbations, which may be detected by monitoring the arrival times of light from millisecond pulsars. While searches using this technique are already underway, they do not…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-11-25 Kimberly K. Boddy , Jeff A. Dror , Austin Lam

Ultralight dark matter may couple quadratically to Standard Model particles. Such quadratic interactions give rise to both coherent and stochastic signals in pulsar timing array (PTA) observations. In this work, we characterize these…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-05-28 Xucheng Gan , Hyungjin Kim , Andrea Mitridate

We look for and place observational constraints on the imprint of ultralight dark matter (ULDM) soliton cores in rotation-dominated galaxies. Extending previous analyses, we find a conservative constraint which disfavors the soliton-host…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-04-29 Nitsan Bar , Kfir Blum , Chen Sun

Ultralight dark matter (ULDM), as a class of low mass (< 1 eV) dark matter (DM) candidates, is a compelling alternative to historically dominant models such as WIMPs and has recently gained significant attention in the scientific community.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-11-22 Jordan Gué

We propose that the ultralight dark matter (ULDM) model, in which dark matter particles have a tiny mass of $m=O(10^{-22})eV$, has characteristic scales for physical quantities of observed galaxies such as mass, size, acceleration, mass…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-04-24 Jae-Weon Lee

We present a search for fundamental constant oscillations in the range $20$~kHz-$100$ MHz, that may arise within models for ultralight dark matter (UDM). Using two independent, significantly upgraded optical-spectroscopy apparatus, we…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-07-20 Oleg Tretiak , Xue Zhang , Nataniel L. Figueroa , Dionysios Antypas , Andrea Brogna , Abhishek Banerjee , Gilad Perez , Dmitry Budker

The study of ultralight dark matter helps to constrain the lower bound of the mass in minimally coupled dark matter models. The granular structure of ultralight dark matter density fields produces metric perturbations which have been…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-09 Andrew Eberhardt , Qiuyue Liang , Elisa G. M. Ferreira

It is widely accepted that dark matter contributes about a quarter of the critical mass-energy density in our Universe. The nature of dark matter is currently unknown, with the mass of possible constituents spanning nearly one hundred…

Pulsar timing array (PTA) collaborations have recently reported evidence of stochastic gravitational waves. Besides gravitational wave signals from cosmological or astrophysical origins, PTAs are also capable of detecting coherently…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-10-01 Qing-Hua Zhu

We report new limits on ultralight scalar dark matter (DM) with dilaton-like couplings to photons that can induce oscillations in the fine-structure constant alpha. Atomic dysprosium exhibits an electronic structure with two nearly…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2015-07-08 Ken Van Tilburg , Nathan Leefer , Lykourgos Bougas , Dmitry Budker