Formation and structure of ultralight bosonic dark matter halos

Jan Veltmaat, Jens C. Niemeyer, and Bodo Schwabe
Phys. Rev. D 98, 043509 – Published 13 August 2018

Abstract

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 detailed interior structure of the halos. We observe the formation of solitonic cores and confirm the core-halo mass relation previously found by Schive et al. The cores exhibit strong quasinormal oscillations that remain largely undamped on evolutionary time scales. On the other hand, no conclusive growth of the core mass by condensation or relaxation can be detected. In the incoherent halo surrounding the cores, the scalar field density profiles and velocity distributions show no significant deviation from collisionless N-body simulations on scales larger than the coherence length. Our results are consistent with the core properties being determined mainly by the coherence length at the time of virialization, whereas the Schrödinger-Vlasov correspondence explains the halo properties when averaged on scales greater than the coherence length.

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  • Received 25 April 2018

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.98.043509

© 2018 American Physical Society

Physics Subject Headings (PhySH)

Gravitation, Cosmology & Astrophysics

Authors & Affiliations

Jan Veltmaat*, Jens C. Niemeyer, and Bodo Schwabe

  • Institut für Astrophysik, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, D-37073 Göttingen, Germany

  • *jvelt@astro.physik.uni-goettingen.de

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Vol. 98, Iss. 4 — 15 August 2018

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