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Understanding the 'Feeble Giant' Crater II with tidally stretched Wave Dark Matter
- Source :
- Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 2022, 515 (2), pp.2624-2632. ⟨10.1093/mnras/stac1862⟩
- Publication Year :
- 2022
- Publisher :
- HAL CCSD, 2022.
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Abstract
- The unusually large "dwarf" galaxy Crater II, with its small velocity dispersion, $\simeq 3$ km/s, defies expectations that low mass galaxies should be small and dense. We combine the latest stellar and velocity dispersion profiles finding Crater II has a prominent dark core of radius $\simeq 0.71^{+0.09}_{-0.08}$ kpc, surrounded by a low density halo, with a transition visible between the core and the halo. We show that this profile matches the distinctive core-halo profile predicted by "Wave Dark Matter" as a Bose-Einstein condensate, $\psi$DM, where the ground state soliton core is surrounded by a tenuous halo of interfering waves, with a marked density transition predicted between the core and halo. Similar core-halo structure is seen in most dwarf spheroidal galaxies (dSph), but with smaller cores, $\simeq 0.25$ kpc and higher velocity dispersions, $\simeq 9$km/s, and we argue here that Crater II may have been a typical dSph that has lost most of its halo mass to tidal stripping, so its velocity dispersion is lower by a factor of 3 and the soliton is wider by a factor of 3, following the inverse scaling required by the Uncertainty Principle. This tidal solution for Crater II in the context of $\psi$DM, is supported by its small pericenter of $\simeq 20$ kpc established by Gaia, implying significant tidal stripping of Crater II by the Milky Way is expected.<br />Comment: Accepted version by MNRAS. 10 pages, 6 figures and 1 table
- Subjects :
- boson: mass
Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
velocity: low
scaling
density: low
FOS: Physical sciences
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics
condensation: Bose-Einstein
dark matter
halo: density
velocity: dispersion
Space and Planetary Science
galaxy: mass
ground state
Astrophysics::Earth and Planetary Astrophysics
structure
uncertainty relations
[PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]
Galaxy: kinematics and dynamics
soliton
Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics
halo: mass
Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 00358711 and 13652966
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 2022, 515 (2), pp.2624-2632. ⟨10.1093/mnras/stac1862⟩
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....7bb2f64e77e3cd22b299e38a334b703a