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most citedWave Dark Matter and Ultra Diffuse Galaxies

24 citations · 42 across the 8 of their papers we have counts for

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10 papers

astro-ph.GA2026

Generating the wide sequence of Diffuse Galaxies with de Broglie waves of Dark Matter

Jiashuo Zhang, Tom Broadhurst, Alvaro Pozo +9

Extensive Euclid satellite imaging at low surface brightness has revealed that most nearby galaxies are diffuse-looking spheroids, where the stellar radius increases for over three…

astro-ph.GA2026

Strong Stellar Diffusion from Wave DM Cosmological Simulation and Potential Unified Origin for dSphs, UFGs, and UDGs

A. Pozo, T. Broadhurst, J. Zhang +6

Our DM simulations predict that stars diffuse throughout dark matter halos over the Hubble time through a random walk driven by the wave perturbations intrinsic to DM. The re…

astro-ph.CO2025

Infalling ultra-faint dwarfs as emissaries of the Axiverse

A. Pozo, T. Broadhurst, H. N. Luu +8

Recent discoveries of ultra-faint dwarf galaxies (UFDs) infalling onto the Milky Way, namely Leo K \& M at kpc, considerably strengthens the case that UFDs constitute…

astro-ph.CO2024★ 8 cited

Diverse dark matter haloes in Two-field Fuzzy Dark Matter

Hoang Nhan Luu, Philip Mocz, Mark Vogelsberger +8

Fuzzy dark matter (FDM) is a compelling candidate for dark matter, offering a natural explanation for the structure of diffuse low-mass haloes. However, the canonical FDM model wit…

astro-ph.GA2024

A smooth filament origin for distant prolate galaxies seen by JWST and HST

Alvaro Pozo, Tom Broadhurst, Razieh Emami +7

The initial gravitational collapse of Dark Matter and gas forms a universal filamentary network where the first galaxies form, with shapes and sizes that depend on the choice of Da…

astro-ph.CO2023★ 4 cited

Galaxy formation with wave/fuzzy dark matter: The core-halo structure and the solitonic imprint

Alvaro Pozo, Razieh Emami, Philip Mocz +9

Dark matter-dominated cores have long been claimed for the well-studied local group dwarf galaxies. More recently, extended stellar halos have been uncovered around several of thes…

astro-ph.CO2023

Dwarf Galaxies United by Dark Bosons

Alvaro Pozo, Tom Broadhurst, George F. Smoot +4

Low mass galaxies in the Local Group are dominated by dark matter and comprise the well studied ``dwarf Spheroidal" (dSph) class, with typical masses of and also…

astro-ph.CO2021★ 6 cited

Understanding the "Feeble Giant" Crater II with tidally stretched Wave Dark Matter

A. Pozo, T. Broadhurst, R. Emami +1

The unusually large "dwarf" galaxy Crater II, with its small velocity dispersion, km/s, defies expectations that low mass galaxies should be small and dense. We combine…

astro-ph.GA2020

Detection of a universal core-halo transition in dwarf galaxies as predicted by Bose-Einstein dark matter

Alvaro Pozo, Tom Broadhurst, Ivan de Martino +4

The presence of large dark matter cores in dwarf galaxies has long been puzzling and many are now known to be surrounded by an extensive halo of stars. Distinctive core-halo struct…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 24 cited

Wave Dark Matter and Ultra Diffuse Galaxies

Alvaro Pozo, Tom Broadhurst, Ivan De Martino +4

Dark matter as a Bose-Einstein condensate, such as the axionic scalar field particles of String Theory, can explain the coldness of dark matter on large scales. Pioneering simulati…