2 papers
astro-ph.CO2025
Supermassive Binaries in Ultralight Dark Matter Solitons
Russell Boey, Emily Kendall, Yourong Wang +1
Ultralight (or fuzzy) dark matter (ULDM) is an alternative to cold dark matter. A key feature of ULDM is the presence of solitonic cores at the centers of collapsed halos. These wo…
astro-ph.CO2024
Dynamical Friction and Black Holes in Ultralight Dark Matter Solitons
Russell Boey, Yourong Wang, Emily Kendall +1
We numerically simulate the motion of a black hole as it plunges radially through an ultralight dark matter soliton. We investigate the timescale in which dynamical friction reduce…