The Diversity of Core Halo Structure in the Fuzzy Dark Matter Model

Abstract

In the fuzzy dark matter (FDM) model, gravitationally collapsed objects always consist of a solitonic core located within a virialised halo. Although various numerical simulations have confirmed that the collapsed structure can be described by a cored NFW like density profile, there is still disagreement about the relation between the core mass and the halo mass. To fully understand this relation, we have assembled a large sample of cored haloes based on both idealised soliton mergers and cosmological simulations with various box sizes. We find that there exists a sizeable dispersion in the core-halo mass relation that increases with halo mass, indicating that the FDM model allows cores and haloes to coexist in diverse configurations. We provide a new empirical equation for a core halo mass relation with uncertainties that can encompass all previously found relations in the dispersion, and emphasise that any observational constraints on the particle mass using a tight one-to-one core-halo mass relation should suffer from an additional uncertainty on the order of 50 % for halo masses $\ge 10^9(8\times 10^{-23}eV/(m{c}^2){)}^{3/2}{M}_{\odot }$. We suggest that tidal stripping may be one of the effects contributing to the scatter in the relation.

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