Bounding the mass of ultralight bosonic Dark Matter particles with the motion of the S2 star around Sgr A*

Abstract

Dark matter is undoubtedly one of the fundamental, albeit unknown, components of the standard cosmological model. The failure to detect WIMPs, the most promising candidate particle for cold dark matter, actually opens the way for the exploration of viable alternatives, of which ultralight bosonic particles with masses $\sim 10^{-21}$ eV represent one of the most encouraging. Numerical simulations have shown that such particles form solitonic cores in the innermost parts of virialized galactic halos that are supported by internal quantum pressure on characteristic $\sim$kpc de Broglie scales. In the Galaxy, this halo region can be probed by means of S-stars orbiting the supermassive black hole Sagittarius A* to unveil the presence of such a solitonic core and, ultimately, to bound the boson mass $m_{\psi }$. Employing a Monte Carlo Markov Chain algorithm, we compare the predicted orbital motion of S2 with publicly available data and set an upper bound $m_{\psi }\lesssim 3.2\times 10^{-19}$ eV on the boson mass, at 95 \% confidence level. When combined with other galactic and cosmological probes, our constraints help to reduce the allowed range of the bosonic mass to $(2.0\lesssim m_{\psi }\lesssim 32.2)\times 10^{-20}$ eV, at the 95 \% confidence level, which opens the way to precision measurements of the mass of the ultralight bosonic dark matter.

6 pages, 2 figures, 1 table. Accepted for publication on PRD. Additional plot and related code at http://produccioncientifica.usal.es/datos/6464bdb7a842f677be8feebc

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