scholarly journals Fuzzy dark matter soliton cores around supermassive black holes

2020 ◽  
Vol 492 (4) ◽  
pp. 5721-5729 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elliot Y Davies ◽  
Philip Mocz

ABSTRACT We explore the effect of a supermassive black hole (SMBH) on the density profile of a fuzzy dark matter (FDM) soliton core at the centre of a dark matter (DM) halo. We numerically solve the Schrödinger–Poisson equations, treating the black hole as a gravitational point mass, and demonstrate that this additional perturbing term has a ‘squeezing’ effect on the soliton density profile, decreasing the core radius, and increasing the central density. In the limit of large black hole mass, the solution approaches one akin to the hydrogen atom, with radius inversely proportional to the black hole mass. By applying our analysis to two specific galaxies (M87 and the Milky Way) and pairing it with known observational limits on the amount of centrally concentrated DM, we obtain a constraint on the FDM particle mass, finding that the range 10−22.12 eV ≲ m ≲ 10−22.06 eV should be forbidden (taking into account additional factors concerning the lifetime of the soliton in the vicinity of a black hole). Improved observational mass measurements of the black hole and total enclosed masses will significantly extend the lower bound on the excluded FDM mass region, while self-consistent theoretical modelling of the soliton–black hole system can extend the upper bound.

2011 ◽  
Vol 2011 ◽  
pp. 1-8 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marc S. Seigar

We investigate the dark matter halo density profile of M33. We find that the HI rotation curve of M33 is best described by an NFW dark matter halo density profile model, with a halo concentration of and a virial mass of . We go on to use the NFW concentration of M33, along with the values derived for other galaxies (as found in the literature), to show that correlates with both spiral arm pitch angle and supermassive black hole mass.


2019 ◽  
Vol 487 (3) ◽  
pp. 3650-3663 ◽  
Author(s):  
J K Hoormann ◽  
P Martini ◽  
T M Davis ◽  
A King ◽  
C Lidman ◽  
...  

ABSTRACT Black hole mass measurements outside the local Universe are critically important to derive the growth of supermassive black holes over cosmic time, and to study the interplay between black hole growth and galaxy evolution. In this paper, we present two measurements of supermassive black hole masses from reverberation mapping (RM) of the broad C iv emission line. These measurements are based on multiyear photometry and spectroscopy from the Dark Energy Survey Supernova Program (DES-SN) and the Australian Dark Energy Survey (OzDES), which together constitute the OzDES RM Program. The observed reverberation lag between the DES continuum photometry and the OzDES emission line fluxes is measured to be $358^{+126}_{-123}$ and $343^{+58}_{-84}$ d for two quasars at redshifts of 1.905 and 2.593, respectively. The corresponding masses of the two supermassive black holes are 4.4 × 109 and 3.3 × 109 M⊙, which are among the highest redshift and highest mass black holes measured to date with RM studies. We use these new measurements to better determine the C iv radius−luminosity relationship for high-luminosity quasars, which is fundamental to many quasar black hole mass estimates and demographic studies.


2008 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maarten Baes ◽  
Sandip K. Chakrabarti ◽  
Archan S. Majumdar

2001 ◽  
Vol 16 (29) ◽  
pp. 1887-1894 ◽  
Author(s):  
DANNY BIRMINGHAM ◽  
MASSIMILIANO RINALDI

We consider a static brane in the background of a topological black hole in arbitrary dimensions. For hyperbolic horizons, we find a solution only when the black hole mass assumes its minimum negative value. In this case, the tension of the brane vanishes, and the brane position coincides with the location of the horizon. For an elliptic horizon, we show that the massless mode of Randall–Sundrum is recovered in the limit of large black hole mass.


2019 ◽  
Vol 14 (S353) ◽  
pp. 199-202
Author(s):  
Sabine Thater ◽  
Davor Krajnović ◽  
Dieu D. Nguyen ◽  
Satoru Iguchi ◽  
Peter M. Weilbacher

AbstractWe present our ongoing work of using two independent tracers to estimate the supermassive black hole mass in the nearby early-type galaxy NGC 6958; namely integrated stellar and molecular gas kinematics. We used data from the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), and the adaptive-optics assisted Multi-Unit Spectroscopic Explorer (MUSE) and constructed state-of-the-art dynamical models. The different methods provide black hole masses of (2.89±2.05)×108M⊙ from stellar kinematics and (1.35±0.09)×108M⊙ from molecular gas kinematics which are consistent within their 3σ uncertainties. Compared to recent MBH - σe scaling relations, we derive a slightly over-massive black hole. Our results also confirm previous findings that gas-based methods tend to provide lower black hole masses than stellar-based methods. More black hole mass measurements and an extensive analysis of the method-dependent systematics are needed in the future to understand this noticeable discrepancy.


2021 ◽  
Vol 921 (2) ◽  
pp. 107
Author(s):  
M. J. Bustamante-Rosell ◽  
Eva Noyola ◽  
Karl Gebhardt ◽  
Maximilian H. Fabricius ◽  
Ximena Mazzalay ◽  
...  

2019 ◽  
Vol 880 (2) ◽  
pp. 77 ◽  
Author(s):  
Masafusa Onoue ◽  
Nobunari Kashikawa ◽  
Yoshiki Matsuoka ◽  
Nanako Kato ◽  
Takuma Izumi ◽  
...  

2013 ◽  
Vol 768 (1) ◽  
pp. L21 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicholas J. McConnell ◽  
Shi-Fan Stephen Chen ◽  
Chung-Pei Ma ◽  
Jenny E. Greene ◽  
Tod R. Lauer ◽  
...  

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