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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…
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…
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…
An attractive model: simulating fuzzy dark matter with attractive self-interactions
Connor A. Painter, Michael Boylan-Kolchin, Philip Mocz +1
Fuzzy Dark Matter (FDM) comprised of ultralight () boson particles has received significant attention as a viable alternative to Cold Dark Matter (CDM), as…
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…
Nested solitons in two-field fuzzy dark matter
Hoang Nhan Luu, Philip Mocz, Mark Vogelsberger +4
Dark matter as scalar particles consisting of multiple species is well motivated in string theory where axion fields are ubiquitous. A two-field fuzzy dark matter (FDM) model featu…
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…
Cosmological Structure Formation and Soliton Phase Transition in Fuzzy Dark Matter with Axion Self-Interactions
Philip Mocz, Anastasia Fialkov, Mark Vogelsberger +11
We investigate cosmological structure formation in Fuzzy Dark Matter (FDM) with an attractive self-interaction (SI) with numerical simulations. Such a SI would arise if the FDM bos…
Cosmic Web Dissection in Fuzzy Dark Matter Cosmologies
Tibor Dome, Anastasia Fialkov, Nina Sartorio +1
On large cosmological scales, anisotropic gravitational collapse is manifest in the dark cosmic web. Its statistical properties are little known for alternative dark matter models…
On the Cosmic Web Elongation in Fuzzy Dark Matter Cosmologies: Effects on Density Profiles, Shapes and Alignments of Halos
Tibor Dome, Anastasia Fialkov, Philip Mocz +3
The fuzzy dark matter (FDM) scenario has received increased attention in recent years due to the small-scale challenges of the vanilla Lambda cold dark matter (CDM) cosmological…
Snowmass2021 Cosmic Frontier White Paper: Cosmological Simulations for Dark Matter Physics
Arka Banerjee, Kimberly K. Boddy, Francis-Yan Cyr-Racine +15
Over the past several decades, unexpected astronomical discoveries have been fueling a new wave of particle model building and are inspiring the next generation of ever-more-sophis…
Small-scale structure in vector dark matter
Mustafa A. Amin, Mudit Jain, Rohith Karur +1
We investigate the differences in the small-scale structure of vector dark matter (VDM) and scalar dark matter (SDM) using 3+1 dimensional simulations of single/multicomponent Schr…
Towards Cosmological Simulations of Dark Matter on Quantum Computers
Philip Mocz, Aaron Szasz
State-of-the-art cosmological simulations on classical computers are limited by time, energy, and memory usage. Quantum computers can perform some calculations exponentially faster…
Galaxy Formation with BECDM -- II. Cosmic Filaments and First Galaxies
Philip Mocz, Anastasia Fialkov, Mark Vogelsberger +11
Bose-Einstein Condensate Dark Matter (BECDM; also known as Fuzzy Dark Matter) is motivated by fundamental physics and has recently received significant attention as a serious alter…
Formation, Gravitational Clustering and Interactions of Non-relativistic Solitons in an Expanding Universe
Mustafa A. Amin, Philip Mocz
We investigate the formation, gravitational clustering and interactions of solitons in a self-interacting, non-relativistic scalar field in an expanding universe. Rapid formation o…
On the Schrodinger-Poisson--Vlasov-Poisson correspondence
Philip Mocz, Lachlan Lancaster, Anastasia Fialkov +2
The Schrödinger-Poisson equations describe the behavior of a superfluid Bose-Einstein condensate under self-gravity with a 3D wave function. As , being the boson…
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…
The large-scale properties of simulated cosmological magnetic fields
Federico Marinacci, Mark Vogelsberger, Philip Mocz +1
We perform uniformly sampled large-scale cosmological simulations including magnetic fields with the moving mesh code AREPO. We run two sets of MHD simulations: one including adiab…
Cosmological growth and feedback from supermassive black holes
P. Mocz, Katherine M. Blundell, A. C. Fabian
We develop a simple evolutionary scenario for the growth of supermassive black holes (BHs), assuming growth due to accretion only, to learn about the evolution of the BH mass funct…
The Tully-Fisher Relation for 25,000 SDSS Galaxies as Function of Environment
Philip Mocz, Andrew Green, Max Malacari +1
We construct Tully-Fisher relationships (TFRs) in the , , , and bands and stellar mass TFRs (smTFRs) for a sample of late spiral type galaxies (with $0.04…
The inverse-Compton ghost HDF 130 and the giant radio galaxy 6C 0905+3955: matching an analytic model for double radio source evolution
Philip Mocz, A. C. Fabian, Katherine M. Blundell +3
We present new GMRT observations of HDF 130, an inverse-Compton (IC) ghost of a giant radio source that is no longer being powered by jets. We compare the properties of HDF 130 wit…
Inverse-Compton ghosts and double-lobed radio sources in the X-ray sky
P. Mocz, A. C. Fabian, Katherine M. Blundell
In this study we predict the total distributions of powerful (FR II) active double-lobed radio galaxies and ghost sources, and their observable distribution in the X-ray sky. We de…