Population search for dark matter spikes in megamaser rotation curves

arXiv:2609.36729 · astro-ph.GA, astro-ph.CO, gr-qc, hep-ph · Submitted 2026-09-29 · Read on arXiv

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

Submitted: 2026-09-29

Updated: 2026-09-29

Terminology

• Degeneracy — 4× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Very Large Array — 2× in this paper
• Green Bank Telescope — 1× in this paper
• Trace — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Very Long Baseline Array — 1× in this paper

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• On the survival of dark matter spikes: Stellar and compact-object perturbations

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