Scalar field "mini--MACHOs": a new explanation for galactic dark matter

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2004-07-12

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0407245v1

Phys.Rev. D70 (2004) 043537

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

5 pages, 1 eps figure. RevTex 4 style. To appear in Physical Review D

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevD.70.043537

We examine the possibility that galactic halos are collisionless ensembles of scalar field ``massive compact halo objects'' (MACHOs). Using mass constraints from MACHO microlensing and from theoretical arguments on halos made up of massive black holes, as well as demanding also that scalar MACHO ensambles of all scales do not exhibit gravothermal instability (as required by consistency with observations of LSB galaxies), we obtain the range: $m\alt 10^{-7} M_\odot$ or $30 M_\odot\alt m\alt 100 M_\odot$. The rather narrow mass range of large MACHOs seems to indicate that the ensambles we are suggesting should be probably made up of scalar MACHOs in the low mass range (``mini--MACHOs''). The proposed model allows one to consider a non--baryonic and non--thermal fundamental nature of dark matter, while at the same time keeping the same phenomenology of the CDM paradigm.

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