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Axion-like particle (ALP) dark matter shows distinctive behavior on scales where wavelike effects dominate over self-gravity. Ultralight axions are candidates for fuzzy dark matter (FDM) whose de Broglie wavelength in virialized halos…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-07-15 Jens C. Niemeyer

Dark matter may be composed of ultra-light bosons whose de Broglie wavelength in galaxies is of order 1 kpc. The standard model for this fuzzy dark matter (FDM) is a complex scalar field that obeys the Schr\"odinger-Poisson equations. The…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-11-23 Boris Zupancic , Lawrence M. Widrow

Fuzzy dark matter (FDM) is a compelling candidate for dark matter, offering a natural explanation for the structure of diffuse low-mass haloes. However, the canonical FDM model with a mass of $10^{-22}~{\rm eV}$ encounters challenges in…

We find that a fuzzy dark matter background and the mG scale magnetic field in the galactic center can give rise to a radiation with a very large energy release. The frequency of the radiation field is the same as the frequency of the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-08-14 Wei Liao

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

Dark matter may be composed of light bosons, ${m_b \sim 10^{-22}\, \mathrm{eV}}$, with a de Broglie wavelength $\lambda \sim 1 \,\mathrm{kpc}$ in typical galactic potentials. Such `fuzzy' dark matter (FDM) behaves like cold dark matter…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-01-28 Ben Bar-Or , Jean-Baptiste Fouvry , Scott Tremaine

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

An ultra-light axion field with mass $\sim 10^{-22}\ {\rm eV}$, also known as wave or fuzzy dark matter, has been proposed as a component of the dark matter in the Universe. We study the evolution of the axion dark matter distribution in…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-03-01 Jorge Vicens , Jordi Salvado , Jordi Miralda-Escudé

Fuzzy dark matter (FDM), an attractive dark matter candidate comprising ultralight bosons (axions) with a particle mass $m_a\sim10^{-22}$ eV, is motivated by the small-scale challenges of cold dark matter and features a kpc-size de Broglie…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-04-30 Hsun-Yeong Yang , Barry T. Chiang , Guan-Ming Su , Hsi-Yu Schive , Tzihong Chiueh , Jeremiah P. Ostriker

The JWST early release data show unexpected high stellar mass densities of massive galaxies at $7<z<11$, a high star formation efficiency is probably needed to explain this. However, such a high star formation efficiency would greatly…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-04-26 Yan Gong , Bin Yue , Ye Cao , Xuelei Chen

The era of precision cosmology allows us to test the composition of the dark matter. Mixed ultralight or fuzzy dark matter (FDM) is a cosmological model with dark matter composed of a combination of particles of mass $m\leq…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-12-11 Alex Laguë , Bodo Schwabe , Renée Hložek , David J. E. Marsh , Keir K. Rogers

Stability properties of gravitationally bound condensates composed of ultralight axionic Fuzzy Dark Matter (FDM) are studied. Previous work has shown that astrophysical collisions could make self-gravitating condensates structurally…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-12-11 Joshua Eby , Madelyn Leembruggen , Peter Suranyi , L. C. R. Wijewardhana

The Ultra-Light Axion (ULA) is a dark matter candidate with mass $\mathcal{O}(10^{-22})$eV and de Broglie wavelength of order kpc. Such an axion, also called the Fuzzy Dark Matter (FDM), thermalizes via the gravitational force and forms a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-01-30 Jiajun Zhang , Yue-Lin Sming Tsai , Jui-Lin Kuo , Kingman Cheung , Ming-Chung Chu

The evidence for the existence of dark matter (DM) is compelling, yet its nature remains elusive. A minimal scenario involves DM interacting solely through gravity. However, the detection would be extremely challenging. In the early…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-04-22 Yong Xu

In fuzzy dark matter (FDM) cosmologies, the dark matter consists of ultralight bosons ($m\lesssim10^{-20}$ eV). The astrophysically large de Broglie wavelengths of such particles hinder the formation of low-mass dark matter halos. This…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-02-20 Jackson Sipple , Adam Lidz , Daniel Grin , Guochao Sun

Axion dark matter (DM) is studied on the formation of supermassive black holes (SMBHs) at high red shift $z$. It is shown that the attractive self interaction of this DM may solve the tension between the high angular momentum of SMBH and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-12-27 Takeshi Fukuyama

In recent astronomical observations, an almost dark galaxy, designated as Nube, has unveiled an intriguing anomaly in its stellar distribution. Specifically, Nube exhibits an exceptionally low central brightness, with the 2D half-light…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-08-12 Yu-Ming Yang , Xiao-Jun Bi , Peng-Fei Yin

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

Fuzzy Dark Matter (FDM) has recently gained attention as a motivated candidate for the dark matter (DM) content of the Universe, as opposed to the commonly assumed cold DM (CDM), since the soliton profile intrinsic to FDM models was found…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-08-01 Tatyana Shevchuk , Ely D. Kovetz , Adi Zitrin

In this Letter we point out to the possibility that the cloud of the vacuum energy excitations in gravitation fields surrounding galaxies forms a component of dark matter. These clouds of the vacuum energy excitations interact…

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