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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

Fuzzy Dark Matter (FDM), consisting of ultralight bosons, is an intriguing alternative to Cold Dark Matter. Numerical simulations solving the Schr\"odinger-Poisson (SP) equation, which governs FDM dynamics, show that FDM halos consist of a…

Self-interacting dark matter (SIDM) has gathered growing attention as a solution to the small scale problems of the collisionless cold dark matter (DM). We investigate the SIDM using stellar kinematics of 23 ultra-faint dwarf (UFD) galaxies…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-01-27 Kohei Hayashi , Masahiro Ibe , Shin Kobayashi , Yuhei Nakayama , Satoshi Shirai

We use high-resolution hydrodynamical simulation to test the difference of halo properties in cold dark matter (CDM) and a self-interacting dark matter (SIDM) scenario with a constant cross-section of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-01-30 Giulia Despali , Martin Sparre , Simona Vegetti , Mark Vogelsberger , Jesús Zavala , Federico Marinacci

The $\Lambda$CDM model, while successful on large cosmological scales, faces challenges on small scales. A promising solution posits that dark matter (DM) exhibits strong self-interaction, enhanced through the narrow resonance or Sommerfeld…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-05-21 Shao-Song Tang , Murat Abdughani

An exciting possibility to constrain dark matter (DM) scenarios is to search for their gravitational imprints on Black Hole (BH) observations. In this paper, we investigate the impact of self-interacting scalar field DM on the shadow radius…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-05-27 Gabriel Gómez , Patrick Valageas

Numerous observations on astrophysical and cosmological scales can be interpreted to mean that, in addition to the familiar kind of matter well described by the standard model of elementary particle physics, there exists Dark Matter (DM).…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-12-05 Gaurav Goswami

We investigate cosmological constraints on an energy density contribution of elastic dark matter self-interactions characterized by the mass of the exchange particle and coupling constant. Because of the expansion behaviour in a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-06-17 Rainer Stiele , Tillmann Boeckel , Jürgen Schaffner-Bielich

Dark Matter (DM) models providing possible alternative solutions to the small- scale crisis of standard cosmology are nowadays of growing interest. We consider DM interacting with light hidden fermions via well motivated fundamental…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-12-07 Tobias Binder , Laura Covi , Ayuki Kamada , Hitoshi Murayama , Tomo Takahashi , Naoki Yoshida

We explore the impact of elastic, anisotropic, velocity-dependent dark matter (DM) self-interactions on the host halo and subhalos of Milky Way (MW)--mass systems. We consider a generic self-interacting dark matter (SIDM) model…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-06-23 Ethan O. Nadler , Arka Banerjee , Susmita Adhikari , Yao-Yuan Mao , Risa H. Wechsler

Dark matter (DM) self-interactions alter the matter distribution on galactic scales and alleviate tensions with observations. A feature of the self-interaction cross section is its angular dependence, influencing offsets between galaxies…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-02-26 Cenanda Arido , Moritz S. Fischer , Mathias Garny

We introduce the Fuzzy Dark Sector (FDS) scenario as a rich, interacting system and candidate for dark matter. This serves as a natural extension of the single-component, non-interacting Fuzzy Dark Matter (FDM) paradigm. Concretely, we…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-22 Christian Capanelli , Elisa G. M. Ferreira , Evan McDonough

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) has dynamical properties that differ significantly from cold dark matter (CDM). These dynamical differences are strongly manifested on the spatial scale of dwarf spheroidal galaxies (dSphs), which roughly corresponds…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-12-05 Axel Widmark , Tomer D. Yavetz , Xinyu Li

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

This paper presents a systematic and accurate treatment of the evolution of cosmological perturbations in self-interacting dark matter models, for particles which decoupled from the primordial plasma while relativistic. We provide a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-02-17 Rafael Yunis , Carlos R. Argüelles , Claudia G. Scóccola , Diana López Nacir , Gastón Giordano

Gravitational weak lensing by dark matter halos leads to a measurable imprint in the shear correlation function of galaxies. Fuzzy dark matter (FDM), composed of ultralight axion-like particles of mass $m\sim 10^{-22}\text{ eV}$, suppresses…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-08-29 Mona Dentler , David J. E. Marsh , Renée Hložek , Alex Laguë , Keir K. Rogers , Daniel Grin

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

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 present a model in which the dark matter particle is frozen-in at MeV scale. In this model, the mediator between the standard model sector and the dark sector can automatically provide a self-interaction for dark matter. The interaction…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-12-17 Haipeng An , Ran Huo , Wanqiang Liu