Influence of tides and self-gravity on Ultra-Light Dark Matter Bounds from Dwarf Galaxies

arXiv:2604.01278 · hep-ph, astro-ph.CO, astro-ph.GA · Submitted 2026-04-01 · Read on arXiv

hep-ph, astro-ph.CO, astro-ph.GA

Submitted: 2026-04-01

Updated: 2026-09-01

Terminology

• Core — 7× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Ultra-light Dark Matter — 7× in this paper
• Benchmark — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Velocity Dispersion — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Anisotropy — 2× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Metallicity — 2× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• alpha — 2× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Abundance — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Cloud In Cell — 1× in this paper
• Clustering — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Consistency — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Fast Fourier Transforms — 1× in this paper
• N-body simulations — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Population Synthesis — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

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• Ultralight scalars as cosmological dark matter
• Wave Dark Matter
• Ultra-Light Dark Matter
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• Cosmological particle-in-cell simulations with ultralight axion dark matter
• Galaxy Formation with BECDM: I. Turbulence and relaxation of idealised haloes
• Formation and structure of ultralight bosonic dark matter halos
• Formation and mass growth of axion stars in axion miniclusters
• New insights into the formation and growth of boson stars in dark matter halos
• AxioNyx: Simulating Mixed Fuzzy and Cold Dark Matter
• Cosmological Simulation for Fuzzy Dark Matter Model
• Strong Constraints on Fuzzy Dark Matter from Ultrafaint Dwarf Galaxy Eridanus II
• Soliton Oscillations and Revised Constraints from Eridanus II of Fuzzy Dark Matter
• Mass-radius relation of Newtonian self-gravitating Bose-Einstein condensates with short-range interactions: I. Analytical results
• Mass-radius relation of Newtonian self-gravitating Bose-Einstein condensates with short-range interactions: II. Numerical results
• Gravitational Bose-Einstein condensation in the kinetic regime
• Do Dark Matter Axions Form a Condensate with Long-Range Correlation?
• Relaxation in a Fuzzy Dark Matter Halo

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