Modeling Wave Dark Matter in Dwarf Spheroidal Galaxies

Understand

This paper studies a model of dark matter called wave dark matter (also known as scalar field dark matter and boson stars) which has recently also been motivated by a new geometric perspective by Bray [arXiv:1212.5745].

• Wave dark matter describes dark matter as a scalar field which satisfies the Einstein-Klein-Gordon equations.
• These equations rely on a fundamental constant Upsilon (also known as the "mass term" of the Klein-Gordon equation).
• In this work, we compare the wave dark matter model to observations to obtain a working value of Upsilon.