Hydrodynamics of galactic dark matter

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/19/14/303zbMATH Open1007.83018arXivgr-qc/0112044OpenAlexW2170136375MaRDI QIDQ3146136FDOQ3146136

T. Matos, Roberto A. Sussman, Luis G. Cabral-Rosetti, D. Núñez

Publication date: 2 April 2003

Published in: Classical and Quantum Gravity (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We consider simple hydrodynamical models of galactic dark matter in which the galactic halo is a self-gravitating and self-interacting gas that dominates the dynamics of the galaxy. Modeling this halo as a sphericaly symmetric and static perfect fluid satisfying the field equations of General Relativity, visible barionic matter can be treated as ``test particles in the geometry of this field. We show that the assumption of an empirical ``universal rotation curve that fits a wide variety of galaxies is compatible, under suitable approximations, with state variables characteristic of a non-relativistic Maxwell-Boltzmann gas that becomes an isothermal sphere in the Newtonian limit. Consistency criteria lead to a minimal bound for particle masses in the range $30hboxeVleqmleq60hboxeV$ and to a constraint between the central temperature and the particles mass. The allowed mass range includes popular supersymmetric particle candidates, such as the neutralino, axino and gravitino, as well as lighter particles ($mapprox$ keV) proposed by numerical N-body simulations associated with self-interactive CDM and WDM structure formation theories.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0112044

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zbMATH Keywords

hydrodynamicsgalactic dark matternon-relativistic Maxwell-Boltzmann gas

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Macroscopic interaction of the gravitational field with matter (hydrodynamics, etc.) (83C55) Observational and experimental questions in relativity and gravitational theory (83B05)

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