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Low surface brightness galaxies are an excellent laboratory where stars and baryonic matter act as tracers of the gravitational potential of the dark matter halo. If dark matter is modeled as a perfect fluid, then spherically symmetric and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-08-29 Andrés Aceña , Juan Barranco , Argelia Bernal , Ericson López , Mario Llerena

We analyze the spherically symmetric Einstein field equation with a massless complex scalar field. We can use the Newtonian solutions to fit the rotation curve data of spiral and dwarf galaxies. From the general relativistic solutions, we…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Franz E. Schunck

There is accumulating evidence that (fundamental) scalar fields may exist in Nature. The gravitational collapse of such a boson cloud would lead to a boson star (BS) as a new type of a compact object. Similarly as for white dwarfs and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2019-04-03 Franz E. Schunck , Eckehard W. Mielke

We consider the hypothesis that dark matter and dark energy consists of ultra-light self-interacting scalar particles. It is found that the Klein-Gordon equation with only two free parameters (mass and self-coupling) on a Schwarzschild…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-05-31 Merab Gogberashvili , Alexander S. Sakharov

We investigate a theory of dark matter called wave dark matter, also known as scalar field dark matter (SFDM) and boson star dark matter or Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) dark matter, in spherical symmetry and its relation to the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2014-09-26 Hubert L. Bray , Andrew S. Goetz

High-quality optical rotation curves for a sample of low-luminosity spirals evidence that the dark halos around galaxies are inconsistent with the output of proper CDM simulations. In fact, dark halos enveloping stellar disks are structures…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 P. Salucci , A. Borriello

In this work we study the possibility that primordial magnetic fields observed in galaxies could be produced by a dark matter halo made of charged ultra-light bosons. In the model, we assume that ultra-light bosons arise as excitations of a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-10-23 M. Hernandez , A. Avilez-Lopez , T. Matos

We study static configurations of dark matter coupled to a scalar field responsible for the dark energy of the Universe. The dark matter is modelled as a Fermi gas within the Thomas-Fermi approximation. The mass of the dark matter particles…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 N. Brouzakis , N. Tetradis

We report the existence of two exotic compact objects in the leading relativistic model of modified Newtonian dynamics, namely aether-scalar-tensor theory. This model is consistent with precision cosmology and gravitational wave constraints…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-06-10 Lirui Yang , Will Barker , Tobias Mistele , Amel Durakovic

Cosmological N--body simulations have revealed a remarkable similarity in the structure of dark matter halos formed in hierarchically clustering universes. Regardless of halo mass, cosmological parameters, and power spectrum of initial…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Julio F. Navarro

We argued that the standard field scalar potential couldn't be widely used for getting the adequate galaxies' curve lines and determining the profiles of dark matter their halo. For discovering the global properties of scalar fields that…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 L. M. Chechin

The model of galactic halo as a system of the collisionless small neutral particles from the standpoint of kinetic theory is considered. For the equilibrium system with the use of Maxwell-Boltzmann distribution we obtained results which…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-11-03 Valentin D. Gladush

We discuss the possibility that dark matter corresponds to an oscillating scalar field coupled to the Higgs boson. We argue that the initial field amplitude should generically be of the order of the Hubble parameter during inflation, as a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-06-22 Orfeu Bertolami , Catarina Cosme , João G. Rosa

We investigate structure formation for ultralight scalar field dark matter coupled to quintessence, in particular the cosmon-bolon system. The linear power spectrum is computed by a numerical solution of the coupled field equations. We…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-10-15 Joschka Beyer , Christof Wetterich

One of the abiding mysteries in the so-called standard cosmological model is the nature of the dark matter. It is universally accepted that there is an abundance of matter in the universe which is non-luminous, due to their very weak…

In this paper, we will describe the idea that dark matter partly consists of gravitational solitons (gravisolitons). The corresponding solution is valid for weak gravitational fields (weak field limit) with respect to a background metric.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-12-11 Torsten Asselmeyer-Maluga , Jerzy Krol

As-yet undiscovered light bosons may constitute all or part of the dark matter (DM) of our Universe, and are expected to have (weak) self-interactions. We show that the quartic self-interactions generically induce the capture of dark matter…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-07-07 Dmitry Budker , Joshua Eby , Marco Gorghetto , Minyuan Jiang , Gilad Perez

The Cold Dark Matter paradigm successfully explains many phenomena on scales larger than galaxies, but seems to predict galaxy halos which are more centrally concentrated and have a lumpier substructure than observed. Endowing cosmic dark…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Craig J. Hogan

Many problems of cold dark matter models such as the cusp problem and the missing satellite problem can be alleviated, if galactic halo dark matter particles are ultra-light scalar particles and in Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC), thanks to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-01-15 Jae-Weon Lee , Sooil Lim

The rotation curves of dark matter dominated dwarf galaxies are analysed. The observations show that dark matter halos represent a one-parameter family with self similar density profiles. The global halo parameters, like total mass and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Andreas Burkert