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Investigation of two colliding solitonic cores in fuzzy dark matter models

Maleki, A ; Sharif University of Technology | 2020

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  1. Type of Document: Article
  2. DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.101.023508
  3. Publisher: American Physical Society , 2020
  4. Abstract:
  5. One of the challenging questions in cosmology is the nature of dark matter particles. Fuzzy dark matter (FDM) is one of the candidates which is made of very light (mFDM≃10-22-10-21 eV) bosonic particles with no self-interaction. It is introduced by the motivation to solve the core-cusp problem in the galactic halos. In this work, we investigate the observational features from FDM halo collisions. Taking into account the quantum wavelength of the condensed bosonic structure, we determine the interference of the wave function of cores after collision. The fringe formation in the wave function is associated to the density contrast of the dark matter inside the colliding galaxies. The observational signatures of the fringes of the distribution of the dark matter are (i) on the lensing of the background sources, (ii) accumulation of the baryonic plasma tracking the interference of the FDM potential and (iii) excess in the X-ray emission from dense regions. Finally, we provide prospects for the observations of quantum wave features of FDM in the colliding galaxies. The NGC6240 colliding galaxy at the redshift of z=0.024 is a suitable candidate for this study. No signal is detected from the fringes in the Chandra data and taking into account the angular resolution of the telescope, we put a constraint of m>7×10-23 eV on the mass of FDM particles. © 2020 American Physical Society
  6. Keywords:
  7. Two colliding ; Solitonic cores ; Fuzzy dark matter (FDM)models ; Dark matter particles ; Colliding galaxies ; Bosonic particles ; Galactic halos ; Quantum wavelength
  8. Source: Physical Review D ; Volume 101, Issue 2 , January , 2020
  9. URL: https://journals.aps.org/prd/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevD.101.023508