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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

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

In this work, two new axisymmetric models for the Galactic mass distribution are presented. Motivated by recent results, these two models include the contribution of a stellar thin disc and of a thick disc, as massive as the thin…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-02-01 Ektoras Pouliasis , Paola Di Matteo , Misha Haywood

The long-term evolution of stellar orbits bound to a massive centre is studied in order to understand the cores of star clusters in central regions of galaxies. Stellar trajectories undergo tiny perturbation, the origin of which is twofold:…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 D. Vokrouhlicky , V. Karas

Whereas cold dark matter (CDM) simulations predict central dark matter cusps with densities that diverge as $\rho$(r)$\sim$ 1/r observations often indicate constant density cores with finite central densities $\rho_0$ and a flat density…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-12-09 Andreas Burkert

The history of star formation in the strong gravitational potential of the Galactic center has been of much interest, recently. We propose that the sub-parsec-scale disk of massive stars orbiting the massive black hole at the Galactic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-12-11 F. Yusef-Zadeh , M. Wardle

We analyze the intriguing possibility to explain both dark mass components in a galaxy: the dark matter (DM) halo and the supermassive dark compact object lying at the center, by a unified approach in terms of a quasi-relaxed system of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-01-08 C. R. Argüelles , A. Krut , J. A. Rueda , R. Ruffini

We calculate the radial profiles of galaxies where the nuclear region is self-gravitating, consisting of self-interacting dark matter (SIDM) with $F$ degrees of freedom. For sufficiently high density this dark matter becomes collisional,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-09-07 Curtis J. Saxton , Ziri Younsi , Kinwah Wu

We derive models of rotating very massive stellar cores with mass $\approx 10^2$--$10^4M_\odot$ which are marginally stable to the pair-unstable collapse, assuming that the core is isentropic and composed primarily of oxygen. It is shown…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-09-22 Masaru Shibata , Sho Fujibayashi

Cusp-core problem is a controversial problem on galactic dark matter haloes. Cosmological N-body simulations has demonstrated that galactic dark matter haloes have a cuspy density profile at the centre. However, baryonic physics may affect…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 Shigeki Inoue , Takayuki R. Saitoh

We study the gravitational effect of non-self-annihilating dark matter on compact stellar objects. The self-interaction of condensate dark matter can give high accretion rate of dark matter onto stars. Phase transition to condensation state…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-03-25 Xinyu Li , Fayin Wang , K. S. Cheng

An axially symmetric galactic gravitational model composed of a dense, massive and spherical nucleus with an additional dark matter halo component was used, to distinguish between the regular and chaotic character of orbits of stars that…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-09-28 Euaggelos E. Zotos , Nicolaos D. Caranicolas

We examine the nonlinear structure of gravitationally collapsed objects that form in our simulations of wavelike cold dark matter ($\psi$DM), described by the Schr\"{o}dinger-Poisson (SP) equation with a particle mass $\sim 10^{-22} {\rm…

We report recent results on the impact of asymmetric dark matter (DM) particles on low-mass stars. First, we found that the small convective core expected in stars with masses between 1.1 and 1.3 Msun is suppressed due to DM cooling.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-03-08 Jordi Casanellas , Ilídio Lopes

Using three-dimensional simulations, we study the dynamics and final structure of merging solitonic cores predicted to form in ultra-light axion dark matter halos. The classical, Newtonian equations of motion of a self-gravitating scalar…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-01-03 Bodo Schwabe , Jens C. Niemeyer , Jan F. Engels

The recent detection of a convective core in a main-sequence solar-type star is used here to test particular models of dark matter (DM) particles, those with masses and scattering cross sections in the range of interest for the DM…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 Jordi Casanellas , Isa M. Brandão , Yveline Lebreton

The rotation curves of regularly rotating disc galaxies are a unique probe of the gravitational potential and dark matter distribution. Until recently, matter decomposition of rotation curves at $z>0.5$ was challenging, not only due to the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-02-06 Fernanda Roman-Oliveira , Francesca Rizzo , Filippo Fraternali

Dark stars are compact massive objects, described by Einstein gravitational field equations with matter. The type we consider possesses no event horizon, instead, there is a deep gravitational well with a very strong redshift factor.…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-02-17 Igor Nikitin

Neutron stars provide a powerful probe of axion dark matter, especially in higher frequency ranges where there remain fewer laboratory constraints. Populations of neutron stars near the Galactic Centre have been proposed as a means to place…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-03-16 U. Bhura , R. A. Battye , J. I. McDonald , S. Srinivasan

We point out that a high number density of stars in the core of a dense star cluster such as the central stellar cluster at the Galactic center, where many stars possess strong stellar winds, should result in collisions of those winds. The…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Leonid M. Ozernoy , Reinhard Genzel , Vladimir V. Usov