Tuesday, January 29, 2013

1301.6614 (Marek Dwornik et al.)

Bose-Einstein condensate dark matter model tested by galactic rotation
curves
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Marek Dwornik, Zoltán Keresztes, László Á. Gergely
Rotation curves of spiral galaxies are fundamental tools in the study of dark matter. Here we test the Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) dark matter model against rotation curve data of High and Low Surface Brightness (HSB and LSB) galaxies, respectively. When the rotational velocities increase over the whole observed range, the fit of the BEC model is similar to the one of the Navarro-Frenk-White (NFW) dark matter model. When however the rotation curves exhibit long flat regions, the NFW profiles provide a slightly better fit.
View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1301.6614

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