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Novel constraints on fermionic dark matter from galactic observables II: Galaxy scaling relations

Journal

PHYSICS OF THE DARK UNIVERSE
Volume 24, Issue -, Pages -

Publisher

ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.dark.2019.100278

Keywords

Methods; Numerical - cosmology; Dark matter - galaxies; Halos; Nuclei; Structure

Funding

  1. International center for Relativistic Astrophysics Network (ICRANet)
  2. CONICET-Argentina
  3. International Cooperation Program CAPES-ICRANet - CAPES-Brazilian Federal Agency for Support and Evaluation of Graduate Education within the Ministry of Education of Brazil
  4. Erasmus Mundus Joint Doctorate Program by the agency EACEA of the European Commission [2014-0707]

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We have recently introduced in paper Ian extension of the Ruffini-Argiielles-Rueda (RAR) model for the distribution of DM in galaxies, by including for escape of particle effects. Being built upon self-gravitating fermions at finite temperatures, the RAR solutions develop a characteristic dense quantum core-diluted halo morphology which, for fermion masses in the range mc(2) approximate to 10-345 key, was shown to provide good fits to the Milky Way rotation curve. We study here for the first time the applicability of the extended RAR model to other structures from dwarfs to ellipticals to galaxy clusters, pointing out the relevant case of mc(2) = 48 key. By making a full coverage of the remaining free parameters of the theory, and for each galactic structure, we present a complete family of astrophysical RAR profiles which satisfy realistic halo boundary conditions inferred from observations. Each family-set of RAR solutions predicts given windows of total halo masses and central quantum-core masses, the latter opening the interesting possibility to interpret them as alternatives either to intermediate-mass BHs (for dwarf galaxies), or to supermassive BHs (SMBHs, in the case of larger galaxy types). The model is shown to be in good agreement with different observationally inferred scaling relations such as: (1) the Ferrarese relation connecting DM halos with supermassive dark central objects; and (2) the nearly constant DM surface density of galaxies. Finally, the theory provides a natural mechanism for the formation of SMBHs of few 10(8)M(circle dot) via the gravitational collapse of unstable DM quantum-cores. (C) 2019 Published by Elsevier B.V.

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