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Fuzzy cold dark matter

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Fuzzy cold dark matter is a hypothetical form of cold dark matter proposed to solve the cuspy halo problem. It would consist of extremely light scalar particles with masses on the order of  eV. Fuzzy cold dark matter halos in dwarf galaxies would manifest wave behavior on astrophysical scales, and the cusps would be avoided through the Heisenberg uncertainty principle.[1]

Fuzzy cold dark matter is a limit of scalar field dark matter without self-interaction.[2][3]

Notes

  1. ^ Hu, Wayne; Barkana, Rennan; Gruzinov, Andrei (2000). "Cold and Fuzzy Dark Matter". Physical Review Letters. 85 (6): 1158–61. arXiv:astro-ph/0003365. Bibcode:2000PhRvL..85.1158H. doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.85.1158. PMID 10991501.
  2. ^ Bohua Li; Tanja Rindler-Daller; Paul R. Shapiro. "Cosmological Constraints on Bose-Einstein-Condensed Scalar Field Dark Matter". Phys. Rev. D. 89, 083536. arXiv:1310.6061. Bibcode:2014PhRvD..89h3536L. doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.89.083536.
  3. ^ Lee, Jae-Weon (2018). "Brief History of Ultra-light Scalar Dark Matter Models". EPJ Web of Conferences. 168: 06005. doi:10.1051/epjconf/201816806005. ISSN 2100-014X.


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