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Are the most super-massive dark compact objects harbored at the center of dark matter halos?

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INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MODERN PHYSICS D
Volume 23, Issue 12, Pages -

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WORLD SCIENTIFIC PUBL CO PTE LTD
DOI: 10.1142/S0218271814420206

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Dark matter; galaxies: super-massive black holes-halos; self-gravitating systems: fermions

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We study an isothermal system of semi-degenerate self-gravitating fermions in general relativity (GR). The most general solutions present is mass density profiles with a central degenerate compact core governed by quantum statistics followed by an extended plateau, and ending in a power law behavior r(-2). By fixing the fermion mass m in the keV regime, the different solutions depending on the free parameters of the model: the degeneracy and temperature parameters at the center, are systematically constructed along the one-parameter sequences of equilibrium configurations up to the critical point, which is represented by the maximum in a central density (rho 0) versus core mass (M-c) diagram. We show that for fully degenerate cores, the Oppenheimer-Volkoff (OV) mass limit M-c(cr) proportional to M-pl(3)/m(2) is obtained, while instead for low degenerate cores, the critical core mass increases showing the temperature effects in a nonlinear way. The main result of this work is that when applying this theory to model the distribution of dark matter (DM) in big elliptical galaxies from miliparsec distance-scales up to 10(2) Kpc, we do not find any critical core-halo configuration of self-gravitating fermions, able to explain both the most super-massive dark object at their center together with the DM halo simultaneously.

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