Collisional dark matter density profiles around supermassive black holes

Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics – Galaxy Astrophysics

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7 pages, 8 eps figures, accepted for publication in MNRAS

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10.1111/j.1365-2966.2011.19258.x

We solve the spherically symmetric time dependent relativistic Euler equations on a Schwarzschild background space-time for a perfect fluid, where the perfect fluid models the dark matter and the space-time background is that of a non-rotating supermassive black hole. We consider the fluid obeys an ideal gas equation of state as a simple model of dark matter with pressure. Assuming out of equilibrium initial conditions we search for late-time attractor type of solutions, which we found to show a constant accretion rate for the non-zero pressure case, that is, the pressure itself suffices to produce stationary accretion regimes. We then analyze the resulting density profile of such late-time solutions with the function $A/r^{\kappa}$. For different values of the adiabatic index we find different slopes of the density profile, and we study such profile in two regions: a region one near the black hole, located from the horizon up to 50$M$ and a region two from $\sim 800M$ up to $\sim 1500M$, which for a black hole of $10^{9}M_{\odot}$ corresponds to $\sim 0.1$pc. The profile depends on the adiabatic index or equivalently on the pressure of the fluid and our findings are as follows: in the near region the density profile shows values of $\kappa <1.5$ and in the limit of the pressure-less case $\kappa \rightarrow 1.5$; on the other hand, in region two, the value of $\kappa<0.3$ in all the cases we studied. If these results are to be applied to the dark matter problem, the conclusion is that, in the limit of pressure-less gas the density profile is cuspy only near the black hole and approaches a non-cuspy profile at bigger scales within 1pc. These results show on the one hand that pressure suffices to provide flat density profiles of dark matter and on the other hand show that the presence of a central black hole does not distort the density profile of dark matter at scales of 0.1pc.

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