COMPLEX SCALAR FIELD DARK MATTER ON GALACTIC SCALES

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Abstract: The nature of the cosmological dark matter remains elusive. Recent studies have advocated the possibility that dark matter could be composed of ultra-light, self-interacting bosons, forming a Bose-Einstein condensate in the very early Universe. We consider models which are charged under a global U(1)-symmetry such that the dark matter number is conserved. It can then be described as a classical complex scalar field which evolves in an expanding Universe. We present a brief review on the bounds on the model parameters from cosmological and galactic observations, along with the properties of galactic halos which result from such a dark matter candidate.









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