Radial acceleration relation from ultra-light scalar dark matter

We show that ultra-light scalar dark matter (fuzzy dark matter) in galaxies has a quantum mechanical typical acceleration scale about 10−10ms−2, which leads to the baryonic Tully-Fisher relation. Baryonic matter at central parts of galaxies acts as a boundary condition for dark matter wave equation...

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Main Authors: Jae-Weon Lee, Hyeong-Chan Kim, Jungjai Lee
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2019-08-01
Series:Physics Letters B
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0370269319303867