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As dark matter appears to comprise most of the Galactic mass, some of it may accumulate in the cores of stars, thereby making the Sun a laboratory for constraining various dark matter theories. We consider the effects on the solar structure…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-05-06 Earl Patrick Bellinger , Matt E. Caplan

New long range forces acting on ordinary matter are highly constrained. However it is possible such forces act on dark matter, as it is less constrained observationally. In this work, we consider dark matter to be made of light bosons, such…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-20 Alize Sucsuzer , Mark P. Hertzberg , Michiru Uwabo-Niibo

According to the current concordance cosmological model, the dark matter (DM) particles are collision-less and produce self-gravitating structures with a central cusp which, generally, is not observed. The observed density tends to a…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-07-06 Jorge Sanchez Almeida , Angel R. Plastino , Ignacio Trujillo

A distinctive feature of ultralight bosonic dark matter is its ability to form a Bose-Einstein condensate with a dense, stationary configuration at the center of galactic halos. In this work, we investigate the internal dynamics of such…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-06-17 Luca Salasnich , Alexander Yakimenko

The evolution of the dark matter distribution at the Galactic center is analyzed, which is caused by the combination of gravitational scattering on Galactic bulge stars and absorption by a supermassive black hole at the center of the bulge.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 M. I. Zelnikov , E. A. Vasiliev

Wave dark matter ($\psi$DM) predicts a compact soliton core and a granular halo in every galaxy. This work presents the first simulation study of an elliptical galaxy by including both stars and $\psi$DM, focusing on the systematic changes…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-05-02 James H. H. Chan , Hsi-Yu Schive , Tak-Pong Woo , Tzihong Chiueh

If the dark matter is made of ultra-light axions, stable solitonic cores form at the centers of virialized halos. In some range for the mass $m$ of the axion particle, these cores are sufficiently compact and can mimic supermassive black…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-04-08 Vincent Desjacques , Adi Nusser

We discuss the structure of a central stellar cluster whose dynamics is influenced by gravitation of a supermassive black hole and by the dissipative interaction of orbiting stars with an accretion disc. We also take the effect of disc…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 V. Karas , L. Subr

Fuzzy Dark Matter (FDM) is among the most suitable candidates to replace WIMPs and to resolve the puzzling mystery of dark matter. A galactic dark matter halo made of these ultralight bosonic particles leads to the formation of a solitonic…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-03-19 Gabriel d'Andrade Furlanetto , Riccardo Della Monica , Ivan De Martino

It is a well-known fact that the gravitational effect of dark matter in galaxies is only noticeable when the orbital accelerations drop below $a_0 \simeq 2\times 10^{-8}$ cm s$^{-1}$ (Milgrom's Law). This peculiarity of the dynamic…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-11-08 L. Acedo

Recent high-resolution imaging observations of strong lens systems reveal dense low-mass perturbers. We propose a soliton core, whose central density is boosted by a supermassive black hole (SMBH), in the fuzzy dark matter (FDM) model as an…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-23 Masamune Oguri , Naoi Kubo

Supermassive black holes in the centre of galaxies dominate the gravitational potential of their surrounding stellar clusters. In these dense environments, stars follow nearly Keplerian orbits, which get slowly distorted as a result of the…

Recently there has been much interest in light dark matter, especially ultra-light axions, as they may provide a solution to the core-cusp problem at the center of galaxies. Since very light bosons can have a de Broglie wavelength that is…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-09-18 Heling Deng , Mark P. Hertzberg , Mohammad Hossein Namjoo , Ali Masoumi

High-precision asteroseismic data provides an excellent opportunity to test theories of stellar evolution and new physics, such as the properties of the dark matter (DM) of the Universe. Here we will show that some models of DM lead to…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-10-21 Jordi Casanellas

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

Dark matter is undoubtedly one of the fundamental, albeit unknown, components of the standard cosmological model. The failure to detect WIMPs, the most promising candidate particle for cold dark matter, actually opens the way for the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-11-13 Riccardo Della Monica , Ivan de Martino

We investigate the impact of accretion onto supermassive black holes on the density profiles of a fuzzy dark matter soliton core at the center of a dark matter halo. Treating the supermassive black hole at the center of a galaxy as a point…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-24 Chon-Fai Kam , Chi-Sheng Chen , En-Jui Kuo

In the fuzzy dark matter (FDM) model, gravitationally collapsed objects always consist of a solitonic core located within a virialised halo. Although various numerical simulations have confirmed that the collapsed structure can be described…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-04-27 Hei Yin Jowett Chan , Elisa G. M. Ferreira , Simon May , Kohei Hayashi , Masashi Chiba

The study presents a theoretical framework for understanding the role of dark matter on the stability of the galactic disc. We model the galaxy as a two-component system consisting of stars and gas in equilibrium with an external dark…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-07-18 K. Aditya

Self-gravitating bosonic fields can support stable and localised field configurations. For real fields, these solutions oscillate in time and are known as oscillatons. The density profile is static, and is soliton. Such solitons should be…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-18 David J. E. Marsh , Ana-Roxana Pop