Publications (8)
Variability in Supermassive Black-Hole Accretion Rates in Fuzzy Dark Matter Cores due to Black-Hole Wandering
Eric Ludwig, Philip Mocz, Victor Robles
Soliton cores in fuzzy dark matter (FDM) deepen nuclear potentials and have been proposed to strongly boost Bondi accretion, potentially aiding rapid black-hole growth at high reds…
Dwarf Galaxies in CDM, WDM, and SIDM: Disentangling Baryons and Dark Matter Physics
Alex Fitts, Michael Boylan-Kolchin, Brandon Bozek +9
We present a suite of FIRE-2 cosmological zoom-in simulations of isolated field dwarf galaxies, all with masses of M at , across a r…
A brief Review of the Scalar Field Dark Matter model
Juan Magaña, Tonatiuh Matos, Victor Robles +1
In the last time the cold dark matter (CDM) model has suggested more and more that it is not able to describe all the properties of nearby galaxies that can be observed in great de…
The central densities of Milky Way-mass galaxies in cold and self-interacting dark matter models
Omid Sameie, Michael Boylan-Kolchin, Robyn Sanderson +6
We present a suite of baryonic cosmological zoom-in simulations of self-interacting dark matter (SIDM) haloes within the ``Feedback In Realistic Environment'' (FIRE) project. The t…
A Review on the Scalar Field/ Bose-Einstein Condensate Dark Matter Model
Abril Suárez, Victor Robles, Tonatiuh Matos
We review the work done so far aimed at modeling in an alternative way the dark matter in the Universe: the scalar field/ Bose-Einstein condensate dark matter (SFDM/BEC) model. We…
On the Dynamical Heating of Dwarf Galaxies in a Fuzzy Dark Matter Halo
Dhruba Dutta Chowdhury, Frank C. van den Bosch, Pieter van Dokkum +3
Fuzzy Dark Matter (FDM), consisting of ultralight bosons, is an intriguing alternative to Cold Dark Matter. Numerical simulations solving the Schrödinger-Poisson (SP) equation, wh…
First star-forming structures in fuzzy cosmic filaments
Philip Mocz, Anastasia Fialkov, Mark Vogelsberger +10
In hierarchical models of structure formation, the first galaxies form in low-mass dark matter potential wells, probing the behavior of dark matter on kiloparsec (kpc) scales. Even…
Galaxy Formation with BECDM: I. Turbulence and relaxation of idealised haloes
Philip Mocz, Mark Vogelsberger, Victor Robles +4
We present a theoretical analysis of some unexplored aspects of relaxed Bose-Einstein condensate dark matter (BECDM) haloes. This type of ultralight bosonic scalar field dark matte…