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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

An intriguing alternative to cold dark matter (CDM) is that the dark matter is a light ( $m \sim 10^{-22}$ eV) boson having a de Broglie wavelength $\lambda \sim 1$ kpc, often called fuzzy dark matter (FDM). We describe the arguments from…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-03-08 Lam Hui , Jeremiah P. Ostriker , Scott Tremaine , Edward Witten

We develop an analytic model to calculate the rate at which galaxy disks are heated by dark matter substructures orbiting in their halos. The model takes into account the internal structure, mass function and accretion rate of satellites…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 A. J. Benson , C. G. Lacey , C. S. Frenk , C. G. Baugh , S. Cole

Fuzzy Dark Matter (FDM) is one of the recent models for dark matter. According to this model, dark matter is made of very light scalar particles with considerable quantum mechanical effects on the galactic scale, which solves many problems…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-05-13 Alireza Maleki , Shant Baghram , Sohrab Rahvar

We present a new implementation of fuzzy dark matter (FDM) dynamical friction within the galpy framework, enabling orbital integrations of globular clusters (GCs) across a broad range of halo-to-GC mass ratios and boson masses. In this…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-04-08 Adrian Szpilfidel , Pierre Boldrini , Jo Bovy , Paola Di Matteo

Many previous studies have imposed stringent constraints on the particle mass of fuzzy dark matter (FDM) by analyzing observations of Galactic satellite galaxies, which show no significant evidence of the heating effect predicted by FDM.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-11 Yu-Ming Yang , Zhao-Chen Zhang , Xiao-Jun Bi , Peng-Fei Yin

Fuzzy Dark Matter (FDM), consisting of ultralight bosons ($m_{\rm b} \sim 10^{-22}\ \rm eV$), is an intriguing alternative to Cold Dark Matter. Numerical simulations that solve the Schr\"odinger-Poisson (SP) equation show that FDM halos…

Recent observations have uncovered a remarkably flat and extremely diffuse stellar distribution within the almost dark dwarf galaxy Nube, posing a challenge to the standard cold dark matter scenario. In this study, we employ numerical…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-03-07 Yu-Ming Yang , Zhao-Chen Zhang , Xiao-Jun Bi , Peng-Fei Yin

Fuzzy Dark Matter (FDM) comprised of ultralight ($m \sim 10^{-22}~\rm{eV}$) boson particles has received significant attention as a viable alternative to Cold Dark Matter (CDM), as it approximates CDM on large scales ($\gtrsim 1$ Mpc) while…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-02-28 Connor A. Painter , Michael Boylan-Kolchin , Philip Mocz , Mark Vogelsberger

We perform a series of controlled N-body simulations of growing disc galaxies within non-growing, live dark matter haloes of varying mass and concentration. Our initial conditions include either a low-mass disc or a compact bulge. New…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-04-04 Michael Aumer , James Binney , Ralph Schönrich

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

The particle mass of dark matter (DM) was previously constrained using kinematics of ultra-faint dwarf galaxies to $m > 3 \times 10^{-19}\,\mathrm{eV}$. This constraint, which excludes the "fuzzy" range of ultra-light dark matter from…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-08 Simon May , Neal Dalal , Andrey Kravtsov

Fuzzy Dark Matter (FDM), particularly in the $10^{-22}$ eV mass regime is frequently used to characterize wave-like interference effects. It exhibits macroscopic wave properties, which drive distinct baryonic dynamics within collapsed…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-04-28 Alexander Tocher , Anastasia Fialkov , Simon May , Ralf S. Klessen , Simon C. O. Glover , Paul C. Clark , Tibor Dome

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), a scalar particle coupled to the gravitational field without self-interaction whose mass range is $m \sim 10^{-24} - 10^{-20}\ \rm{eV}$, is one of the promising alternative dark matter candidates to cold dark…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-02-02 Hiroki Kawai , Masamune Oguri , Alfred Amruth , Tom Broadhurst , Jeremy Lim

Fuzzy Dark Matter (FDM) has recently emerged as an interesting alternative model to the standard Cold Dark Matter (CDM). In this model, dark matter consists of very light bosonic particles with quantum mechanical effects on galactic scales.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-11-08 Sana Elgamal , Matteo Nori , Andrea V. Macciò , Marco Baldi , Stefan Waterval

We investigate phenomenologically the viability of fuzzy dark matter (FDM). We do this by confronting the predictions of the model, in particular, the formation of a solitonic core at the center of dark matter halos, with a homogeneous and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-03-15 Andrés Bañares-Hernández , Andrés Castillo , Jorge Martin Camalich , Giuliano Iorio

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

A plausible dark matter candidate is an ultralight bosonic particle referred to as fuzzy dark matter. The equivalent mass-energy of the fuzzy dark matter boson is $\sim 10^{-22}$eV and has a corresponding de Broglie wavelength of kiloparsec…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-05-02 Andreas Vitsos , Konstantinos N. Gourgouliatos

We present a novel method to constrain the mass of ultra-light bosons as the dark matter using stellar streams formed by disrupting Globular Clusters in the Milky Way. The turbulent density field of Fuzzy Dark Matter (FDM) haloes results in…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-08-03 Nicola C. Amorisco , A. Loeb