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Evidence for a stochastic gravitational wave (GW) background, plausibly originating from the merger of supermassive black holes (SMBHs), is accumulating with observations from pulsar timing arrays. An outstanding question is how inspiraling…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-06-04 Gonzalo Alonso-Álvarez , James M. Cline , Caitlyn Dewar

Self-interacting dark matter (SIDM) is an able alternative to collisionless dark matter. If dark matter does have self-interactions, we would expect this to cause a separation between the collisionless stars and the dark matter halo of a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-01-10 Kris Pardo , Harry Desmond , Pedro G. Ferreira

The nature of dark matter is still mysterious despite various astronomical evidence. As a possible candidate, self-interacting dark matter (SIDM) can potentially resolve some issues appearing in cold dark matter paradigm. Here we…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-09-03 Mu-Chun Chen , Yong Tang

We explore for the first time the effect of self-interacting dark matter (SIDM) on the dark matter (DM) and baryonic distribution in massive galaxies formed in hydrodynamical cosmological simulations, including explicit baryonic physics…

In models of dark matter composed of feebly interacting ultralight bosons in the state of Bose-Einstein condensate, the dynamical friction force acting on circularly moving globular clusters modelled as Plummer spheres is determined.…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-07-17 V. M. Gorkavenko , A. I. Yakimenko , A. O. Zaporozhchenko , E. V. Gorbar

Dark matter (DM) self-interactions have important implications for the formation and evolution of structure, from dwarf galaxies to clusters of galaxies. We study the dynamics of self-interacting DM via a light mediator, focusing on the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-06-12 Sean Tulin , Hai-Bo Yu , Kathryn M. Zurek

Ultralight axions (ULAs) are promising dark matter candidates that can have a distinct impact on the formation and evolution of structure on nonlinear scales relative to the cold, collisionless dark matter (CDM) paradigm. However, most…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-07-07 Noah Glennon , Ethan O. Nadler , Nathan Musoke , Arka Banerjee , Chanda Prescod-Weinstein , Risa H. Wechsler

Dynamical friction and stellar orbital motion in spiral galaxies with dark matter composed of ultralight bosons in the state of rotating Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) are studied. It is found that the dynamical friction force is…

Dark matter (DM) environments around black holes (BHs) can influence their mergers through dynamical friction, causing gravitational wave (GW) dephasing during the inspiral phase. While this effect is well studied for collisionless dark…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-02 Amitayus Banik , Jeong Han Kim , Jun Seung Pi , Yuhsin Tsai

Black Holes (BH) traversing a dark matter cloud made out of a self-interacting scalar soliton are slowed down by two complementary effects. At low subsonic speeds, the BH accretes dark matter and this is the only source of dragging along…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-31 Alexis Boudon , Philippe Brax , Patrick Valageas

In the Fuzzy Dark Matter (FDM) scenario, the dark matter is composed of an ultra-light scalar field with coherence length and wave interference on astrophysical scales. Scalar fields generically have quartic self-interactions that modify…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-03-31 Christian Capanelli , Wayne Hu , Evan McDonough

We investigate the dynamical friction (DF) acting on circularly-moving perturbers in fuzzy dark matter (FDM) backgrounds. After condensation, FDM is described by a single wave function satisfying a Schr\"odinger-Poisson equation. An…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-01-25 Robin Buehler , Vincent Desjacques

We study the cosmological impact of a transient self-interaction phase in Ultra-Light Dark Matter (ULDM), focusing on its simultaneous effects on the sound horizon and the late-time growth of structure. In the presence of a quartic…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-01 Jessica N. López-Sánchez

The recent preference for a dynamical dark energy (DE) from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument seems to call for interactions between DE and dark matter (DM), either from direct DE-DM interaction or indirect interaction induced by…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-28 Zhen-Hong Lyu , Rong-Gen Cai , Shao-Jiang Wang , Xiang-Xi Zeng

This short contributions summarizes a couple of recent results to test dark matter properties with galactic dynamics. First, I will present the impact in rotation curves from solitonic structures expected at the center of galaxies for…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-12-11 Diego Blas

The dynamical friction force acting on a spatially extended probe (globular clusters and dwarf galaxies) moving in the environment of ultralight bosonic dark matter in the state of the Bose-Einstein condensate is determined. Modeling the…

While dark matter self-interactions may solve several problems with structure formation, so far only the effects of two-body scatterings of dark matter particles have been considered. We show that, if a subdominant component of dark matter…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-09-30 Matti Heikinheimo , Martti Raidal , Christian Spethmann , Hardi Veermäe

Dark matter (DM) self-interactions have been proposed to solve problems on small length scales within the standard cold DM cosmology. Here, we investigate the effects of DM self-interactions in merging systems of galaxies and galaxy…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-01-19 Moritz S. Fischer , Marcus Brüggen , Kai Schmidt-Hoberg , Klaus Dolag , Antonio Ragagnin , Andrew Robertson

Self-interacting dark matter (SIDM) has been proposed to address small-scale challenges faced by the cold dark matter (CDM) paradigm, such as the diverse density profiles observed in dwarf galaxies. In this study, we analyze the kinematics…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-03-19 Shin'ichiro Ando , Kohei Hayashi , Shunichi Horigome , Masahiro Ibe , Satoshi Shirai

We consider the intermediate mass-ratio inspiral of a stellar-mass compact object with an intermediate-mass black hole that is surrounded by a dark matter density spike. The interaction of the inspiraling black hole with the dark matter…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-09-18 Fani Dosopoulou