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We use cosmological simulations to study the effects of self-interacting dark matter (SIDM) on the density profiles and substructure counts of dark matter halos from the scales of spiral galaxies to galaxy clusters, focusing explicitly on…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 Miguel Rocha , Annika H. G. Peter , James S. Bullock , Manoj Kaplinghat , Shea Garrison-Kimmel , Jose Onorbe , Leonidas A. Moustakas

We study the impact of self-interactions on the structure and evolution of scalar field dark matter (SFDM) halos. Using three-dimensional Gross-Pitaevskii-Poisson simulations of multiple soliton mergers, we explore both repulsive and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-13 Jessica N. López-Sánchez , Erick Munive-Villa , Tanja Rindler-Daller

Fuzzy dark matter (FDM) is an attractive dark matter candidate composed of ultralight particles. In this paper, toward a clear understanding of the core-halo relation in the FDM halos, we consider a simple model of the soliton-halo system,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-11-25 Yusuke Manita , Takuya Takahashi , Atsushi Taruya

Soliton cores at the center of fuzzy dark matter (FDM) halos provide a promising way to distinguish FDM from other dark matter models. However, the relation between solitons and their host halos remains contentious. Here, we rigorously…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-18 Pin-Yu Liao , Guan-Ming Su , Hsi-Yu Schive , Alexander Kunkel , Hsinhao Huang , Tzihong Chiueh

Scalar-field dark matter (SFDM) halos exhibit a core-envelope structure with soliton-like cores and CDM-like envelopes. Simulations without self-interaction (free-field case) report a core-halo mass relation $M_c\propto M_{h}^{\beta}$, with…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-11-08 Luis E. Padilla , Tanja Rindler-Daller , Paul R. Shapiro , Tonatiuh Matos , J. Alberto Vázquez

Scalar Field Dark Matter (SFDM) comprised of ultralight bosons has attracted great interest as an alternative to standard, collisionless Cold Dark Matter (CDM) because of its novel structure-formation dynamics, described by the coupled…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-08-03 Taha Dawoodbhoy , Paul R. Shapiro , Tanja Rindler-Daller

We present the results of a full cosmological simulation with the new code SCALAR, where dark matter is in form of fuzzy dark matter, described by a light scalar field with a mass of $m_{\rm B} = 2.5 \times 10^{-22}$ eV and evolving…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-06-08 Mattia Mina , David F. Mota , Hans A. Winther

Wave (fuzzy) dark matter ($\psi$DM) consists of ultralight bosons, featuring a solitonic core within a granular halo. Here we extend $\psi$DM to two components, with distinct particle masses $m$ and coupled only through gravity, and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-04-18 Hsinhao Huang , Hsi-Yu Schive , Tzihong Chiueh

In two-component self-interacting dark matter (SIDM) models with inter-species interactions, mass segregation arises naturally from collisional relaxation, enhancing central densities and gravothermal evolution. We demonstrate that models…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-08 Daneng Yang , Yi-Zhong Fan , Siyuan Hou , Yue-Lin Sming Tsai

Cold dark matter (CDM) has shown to be an excellent candidate for the dark matter (DM) of the Universe at large scales, however it presents some challenges at the galactic level. The scalar field dark matter (SFDM), also called fuzzy, wave,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-02-07 Tula Bernal , Lizbeth M. Fernández-Hernández , Tonatiuh Matos , Mario A. Rodríguez-Meza

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 present a method to investigate the properties of solitonic cores in the Thomas-Fermi regime under the self-interacting scalar field dark matter framework. Using semi-analytical techniques, we characterize soliton signatures through…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-03-06 Raquel Galazo García , Eric Jullo , Emmanuel Nezri , Marceau Limousin

Self-interacting dark matter (SIDM) is an intriguing alternative to the standard cold dark matter (CDM) paradigm, which predicts that dark matter halos typically have large, isothermal cores. Numerical simulations have shown that dynamical…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-02-16 Frank C. van den Bosch , Shashank Dattathri

We investigate cosmological structure formation in Fuzzy Dark Matter (FDM) with an attractive self-interaction (SI) with numerical simulations. Such a SI would arise if the FDM boson were an ultra-light axion, which has a strong CP…

Ultralight bosonic dark matter called fuzzy dark matter (FDM) has attracted much attention as an alternative to the cold dark matter. An intriguing feature of the FDM model is the presence of a soliton core, a stable dense core formed at…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-12-07 Atsushi Taruya , Shohei Saga

Building upon results of cosmological simulations of ultra-light scalar field dark matter (SFDM), we present a comprehensive model for the density profiles of SFDM haloes as a function of halo virial mass $M_{\rm h}$ and scalar field mass…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-12-12 Victor H. Robles , James S. Bullock , Michael Boylan-Kolchin

Astrophysical observations spanning dwarf galaxies to galaxy clusters indicate that dark matter (DM) halos are less dense in their central regions compared to expectations from collisionless DM N-body simulations. Using detailed fits to DM…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-02-03 Manoj Kaplinghat , Sean Tulin , Hai-Bo Yu

We examine the impact of moderate repulsive self-interactions on fuzzy dark matter halos generated by merging smaller Gaussian density concentrations. We study the size of the core and the granules, the spatial dependence of the field's…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-31 Milos Indjin , Nick Keepfer , I-Kang Liu , Nick P. Proukakis , Gerasimos Rigopoulos

Solitons are observed to form in simulations of dark matter (DM) halos consisting of bosonic fields. We use the extended Press-Schechter formalism to compute the mass function of solitons, assuming various forms for the relationship between…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-02-14 Xiaolong Du , David J. E. Marsh , Miguel Escudero , Andrew Benson , Diego Blas , Charis Kaur Pooni , Malcolm Fairbairn

Scalar Field Dark Matter (SFDM) comprised of ultralight ($\gtrsim 10^{-22}$ eV) bosons is an alternative to standard, collisionless Cold Dark Matter (CDM) that is CDM-like on large scales but inhibits small-scale structure formation. As a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-11-04 Paul R. Shapiro , Taha Dawoodbhoy , Tanja Rindler-Daller
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