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The main aim of this paper is to provide cosmological constraints on the Multi Scalar Field Dark Matter model (MSFDM), in which we assume the dark matter is made up of different ultra-light scalar fields. As a first approximation, we…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-12-05 L. O. Téllez-Tovar , Tonatiuh Matos , J. Alberto Vázquez

We discuss the use of atom interferometry as a tool to search for Dark Matter (DM) composed of ultra-light scalar fields. Previous work on ultra-light DM detection using accelerometers has considered the possibility of equivalence principle…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2016-12-28 Andrew A. Geraci , Andrei Derevianko

We consider the possibility that the dark matter is coupled through its mass to a scalar field associated with the dark energy of the Universe. In order for such a field to play a role at the present cosmological distances, it must be…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-11 N. Tetradis

Discrepancies have emerged between the predictions of standard cold dark matter (CDM) theory and observations of clustering on sub-galactic scales. Warm dark matter (WDM) is a simple modification of CDM in which the dark matter particles…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Paul Bode , Jeremiah P. Ostriker , Neil Turok

We use numerical simulations to examine the substructure within galactic and cluster mass halos that form within a hierarchical universe. Clusters are easily reproduced with a steep mass spectrum of thousands of substructure clumps that…

In the last time the cold dark matter (CDM) model has suggested more and more that it is not able to describe all the properties of nearby galaxies that can be observed in great detail as well as that it has some problems in the mechanism…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 Juan Magaña , Tonatiuh Matos , Victor Robles , Abril Suárez

The Cold Dark Matter paradigm successfully explains many phenomena on scales larger than galaxies, but seems to predict galaxy halos which are more centrally concentrated and have a lumpier substructure than observed. Endowing cosmic dark…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Craig J. Hogan

Ultra-light dark matter (ULDM) is a class of dark matter models (DM) where DM is composed by bosons with masses ranging from $10^{-24}\, \mathrm{eV} < m < \mathrm{eV}$. These models have been receiving a lot of attention in the past few…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-04-27 Elisa G. M. Ferreira

We present a systematic study of the ultralight dark matter (ULDM) effects on neutrino oscillations using the latest long-baseline data from the T2K and NO$\nu$A experiments. Our analysis covers both flavor-universal and flavor-general…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-04-14 Xin-Qiang Li , Hai-Xing Lin , Jian Tang , Sampsa Vihonen

We perform a study of the nonlinear clustering of matter in the late-forming dark matter (LFDM) scenario in which dark matter results from the transition of a nonminimally coupled scalar field from radiation to collisionless matter. A…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-09-09 Shankar Agarwal , Pier Stefano Corasaniti , Subinoy Das , Yann Rasera

We simulate the gravitational dynamics of a massive object interacting with Ultralight / Fuzzy Dark Matter (ULDM/FDM), non-relativistic quantum matter described by the Schrodinger-Poisson equation. We first consider a point mass moving in a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-04-06 Yourong Wang , Richard Easther

We use state-of-art measurements of the galaxy luminosity function (LF) at z=6, 7 and 8 to derive constraints on warm dark matter (WDM), late-forming dark matter (LFDM) and ultra-light axion dark matter (ULADM) models alternative to the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-04-17 P. S. Corasaniti , S. Agarwal , D. J. E. Marsh , S. Das

Galactic dark matter is modelled by a scalar field. In particular, it is shown that an analytically solvable toy model with a non-linear self-interaction potential U(Phi) leads to dark halo models which have the form of quasi-isothermal…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-11-19 B. Fuchs , E. W. Mielke

Scalar dark matter is a viable alternative to particle dark matter models such as Weakly Interacting Massive Particles (WIMPS). This is particularly the case for scalars with a low mass $m \gtrsim 10^{-21} {\rm eV}$ as required to make…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-07 Philippe Brax , Patrick Valageas

Analytic arguments and numerical simulations show that bosonic ultra-light dark matter (ULDM) would form cored density distributions (`solitons') at the center of galaxies. ULDM solitons offer a promising way to exclude or detect ULDM by…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-06-05 Nitsan Bar , Kfir Blum , Joshua Eby , Ryosuke Sato

We describe how to estimate the velocity dispersions of ultra diffuse galaxies, UDGs, using a previously defined galaxy scaling relationship. The method is accurate for the two UDGs with spectroscopically measured dispersions, as well as…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-02-22 Dennis Zaritsky

We consider the hypothesis that galactic dark matter is composed of ultra-light scalar particles and use internal properties of dwarf spheroidal galaxies to establish a preferred range for the mass m of these bosonic particles. We…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-30 V. Lora , Juan Magana , Argelia Bernal , F. J. Sanchez-Salcedo , E. K. Grebel

We explore how dynamical friction in an ultralight dark matter (ULDM) background is affected by dark matter self-interactions. We calculate the force of dynamical friction on a point mass moving through a uniform ULDM background with…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-03-07 Noah Glennon , Nathan Musoke , Ethan O. Nadler , Chanda Prescod-Weinstein , Risa H. Wechsler

Based on a set of cosmological N-body simulations we analyze properties of the dark matter haloes (DM) in a galaxy mass range ($10^{11} - 10^{13} h^{-1}M_{\odot}$) in modified $\lcdm$ cosmology with additional dynamically screened scalar…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-08-31 Wojciech A. Hellwing

Cosmological simulations of galaxy formation predict a universal form for the mass profile of dark matter (DM) halos from cluster to galaxy scales. Remarkably few interesting constraints exist, however, on DM halos in early-type galaxies.…