http://arxiv.org/abs/1901.03694
The recent observation of the distribution of accreted stars (SDSS-Gaia DR2) suggests that a non-trivial fraction of dark matter is contained within halo substructure. With this in mind, in this letter we construct novel solutions to the equations of motion governing condensate dark matter candidates, namely axion Bose-Einstein condensates and superfluids. These solutions are highly compressed along one axis and thus have a disk-like geometry. We discuss linear stability of these solutions, consider the astrophysical implications as a large-scale dark disk or small scale substructure, and find a characteristic signal in strong gravitational lensing. If observed, such substructure is a smoking gun signal of condensate models of dark matter. This indicates that dark matter substructure is a powerful new observable window for testing the nature of dark matter.
S. Alexander, J. Bramburger and E. McDonough
Mon, 14 Jan 19
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Comments: 6 pages, 3 figures
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