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We investigate a simple model for a galactic halo under the assumption that it is dominated by a dark matter component in the form of a Bose-Einstein condensate involving an ultra-light scalar particle. In particular we discuss the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-09-16 Mark N Brook , Peter Coles

We stress that halo dipole components are nontrivial in core-halo systems in both Newton's gravity and General Relativity. To this end, we extend a recent exact relativistic model to include also a halo dipole component. Next, we consider…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-30 Werner M. Vieira , Patricio S. Letelier

In this last paper in a series of three on weakly interacting massive particle (WIMP) dark matter in the solar system, we focus on WIMPs bound to the system by gravitationally scattering off of planets. We present simulations of WIMP orbits…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2009-07-30 Annika H. G. Peter

The dynamics of galaxies in an expanding universe is often determined for gravitational and dark matter in an Einstein-de Sitter universe, or alternatively by modifying the gravitational long-range attractions in the Newtonian dynamics…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-10-20 Søren Toxvaerd

Although the theoretical understanding of the nonlinear gravitational clustering has greatly advanced in the last decades, in particular by the outstanding improvement on numerical N-body simulations, the physics behind this process is not…

Using the Einstein cluster models, we construct a fully relativistic, spherically symmetric, spiky structure of matter distribution near a supermassive black hole. We introduce and discuss three simple toy models, together with a more…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-10-08 Kei-ichi Maeda , Vitor Cardoso , Anzhong Wang

Various profiles of matter distribution in galactic halos (such as Navarro-Frenk-White, Burkert, Hernquist, Moore, Taylor-Silk and others) are considered here as the source term for the Einstein equations. We solve these equations and find…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-07-13 R. A. Konoplya , A. Zhidenko

In recent years evidence has accumulated that nearby spiral galaxies are surrounded by massive haloes of neutral and ionised gas. These gaseous haloes rotate more slowly than the disks and show inflow motions. They are clearly analogous to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 Filippo Fraternali , James Binney , Tom Oosterloo , Renzo Sancisi

It is shown that compact groups of galaxies (HCGs, ShCGS) are stable formations, in which principal member galaxies together with faint galaxies in their environment rotate in elongated orbits around the common gravitational center of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 H. M. Tovmassian , V. Chavushian , O. Martinez , O. Yam , H. Tiersch

A galaxy disk embedded in a rotating halo experiences a dynamical friction force which causes it to warp when the angular momentum axes of the disk and halo are misaligned. Our fully self-consistent simulations of this process induce…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Victor P. Debattista , J. A. Sellwood

The hierarchical clustering observed in cold dark matter simulations results in highly clumped galactic halos. If the dark matter in our halo is made of weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs), their annihilation products should be…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 P. Blasi , A. V. Olinto , C. Tyler

Recent ideas for the origin and persistence of the warps commonly observed in disc galaxies have focused on cosmic infall. We present N-body simulations of an idealized form of cosmic infall onto a disc galaxy and obtain a warp that closely…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Juntai Shen , J. A. Sellwood

We show that hard encounters in the central regions of globular clusters embedded in dark matter (DM) haloes necessarily lead to the formation of gravitationally-bound stellar envelopes that extend far beyond the nominal tidal radius of the…

We find a set of spacetime solutions whose rotation curves approach a flat profile at large radii, as observed for spiral galaxies. The associated stress-energy tensor reflects a positive mass and anisotropic pressure. The spatially…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-10-24 Sandipan Sengupta

New 21cm observations with the Green Bank Telescope show that a significant fraction of the HI in the inner Galaxy's halo 1 kpc from the midplane exists in the form of discrete clouds. Some look very much like a Spitzer ``standard'' diffuse…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Felix J. Lockman

This paper explores the quantitative connection between globular clusters and the diffuse stellar population of the galaxies they are associated with. Both NGC 1399 and NGC 4486 (M87) are well suited for this kind of analysis due to their…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 J. C. Forte , F. R. Faifer , D. Geisler

We combine experimental constraints from direct detection searches and from neutrino telescopes looking for WIMP annihilations in the Sun to derive halo-independent bounds on each of the 28 WIMP-proton and WIMP-neutron couplings of the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-03-08 Sunghyun Kang , Arpan Kar , Stefano Scopel

As galactic halos are not directly visible, there are many ambiguities regarding their composition and rotational velocity. Though most of the dark matter is non-baryonic, {\it some fraction is}, and it can be used to trace the halo…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-01-10 Noraiz Tahir , Francesco De Paolis , Asghar Qadir , Achille A. Nucita

We present new static spherically-symmetric solutions of Einstein equations with the quintessence-like matter surrounding a global monopole. These new solutions of the coupling scalar-Einstein equations are more complicated, which depend on…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Xin-zhou Li , Ping Xi , Xiang-hua Zhai

In spherically symmetric, static spacetime, we show that only j=1/2 fermions can satisfy both Einstein's field equation and Dirac's equation. It is also shown that neutrinos are able to have effective masses and cluster in the galactic halo…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-07 T. H. Lee , B. H. J. McKellar