18–22 Jul 2022
Europe/Zurich timezone

Coherent to incoherent structures in fuzzy dark matter halos

19 Jul 2022, 17:00
20m
EI10

EI10

Speaker

Dr I-Kang (Gary) Liu (School of Mathematics, Statistics and Physics, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 7RU, United Kingdom)

Description

We examine the degree of spatial coherence of the field configuration in fuzzy dark matter halos. The compact soliton sitting at the centre of a halo is completely coherent and is surrounded by an incoherent field whose density follows the Navarro-Frenk-White profile and exhibits turbulent features. This spatial transition from coherence to incoherence can be well characterized by two parameters according to a generalized empirical core-halo profile, whose oscillations are found to be anti-correlated to the oscillation of the peak value of the power spectrum of the halo; their oscillation frequencies scale with the soliton core density. In contrast, the outer halo reaches a quasi-steady state with an approximately constant characteristic granule size correlated with the intervortex spacing.

We acknowledge funding from European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Sklodowska-Curie grant agreement No. 897324 (upgradeFDM).

Authors

Dr I-Kang (Gary) Liu (School of Mathematics, Statistics and Physics, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 7RU, United Kingdom) Prof. Nick Proukakis (School of Mathematics, Statistics and Physics, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 7RU, United Kingdom) Dr Gerasimos Rigopoulos (School of Mathematics, Statistics and Physics, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 7RU, United Kingdom)

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