Ultra-light dark matter

EGM Ferreira - The Astronomy and Astrophysics Review, 2021 - Springer
Ultra-light dark matter is a class of dark matter models (DM), where DM is composed by
bosons with masses ranging from 10^-24\, eV< m< eV 10-24 eV< m< eV. These models …

Small-scale structure of fuzzy and axion-like dark matter

JC Niemeyer - Progress in Particle and Nuclear Physics, 2020 - Elsevier
Axion-like particle (ALP) dark matter shows distinctive behavior on scales where wavelike
effects dominate over self-gravity. Ultralight axions are candidates for fuzzy dark matter …

CMB-S4 science case, reference design, and project plan

K Abazajian, G Addison, P Adshead, Z Ahmed… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2019 - arxiv.org
CMB-S4 Science Case, Reference Design, and Project Plan Page 1 CMB-S4 Science Case,
Reference Design, and Project Plan CMB-S4 Collaboration July 9, 2019 arXiv:1907.04473v1 …

Galaxy formation with BECDM–I. Turbulence and relaxation of idealized haloes

P Mocz, M Vogelsberger, VH Robles… - Monthly Notices of …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
We present a theoretical analysis of some unexplored aspects of relaxed Bose–Einstein
condensate dark matter (BECDM) haloes. This type of ultralight bosonic scalar field dark …

Strong constraints on fuzzy dark matter from ultrafaint dwarf galaxy Eridanus II

DJE Marsh, JC Niemeyer - Physical review letters, 2019 - APS
The fuzzy dark matter (FDM) model treats DM as a bosonic field with an astrophysically large
de Broglie wavelength. A striking feature of this model is O (1) fluctuations in the dark matter …

Formation and structure of ultralight bosonic dark matter halos

J Veltmaat, JC Niemeyer, B Schwabe - Physical Review D, 2018 - APS
We simulate the formation and evolution of ultralight bosonic dark matter halos from
cosmological initial conditions. Using zoom-in techniques, we are able to resolve the …

New insights into the formation and growth of boson stars in dark matter halos

J Chen, X Du, EW Lentz, DJE Marsh, JC Niemeyer - Physical Review D, 2021 - APS
This work studies the formation and growth of boson stars and their surrounding miniclusters
by gravitational condensation using nonlinear dynamical numerical methods. Fully …

The diversity of core–halo structure in the fuzzy dark matter model

HYJ Chan, EGM Ferreira, S May… - Monthly Notices of the …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
In the fuzzy dark matter (FDM) model, gravitationally collapsed objects always consist of a
solitonic core located within a virialized halo. Although various numerical simulations have …

Fuzzy dark matter and the Dark Energy Survey Year 1 data

M Dentler, DJE Marsh, R Hložek… - Monthly Notices of …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Gravitational weak lensing by dark matter haloes leads to a measurable imprint in the shear
correlation function of galaxies. Fuzzy dark matter (FDM), composed of ultralight axion-like …

Soliton merger rates and enhanced axion dark matter decay

X Du, DJE Marsh, M Escudero, A Benson, D Blas… - Physical Review D, 2024 - APS
Solitons are observed to form in simulations of dark matter (DM) halos consisting of bosonic
fields. We use the extended Press-Schechter formalism to compute the mass function of …