Abstract
We consider the ultralight pseudo Nambu-Goldstone boson appearing in the late-time cosmological phase tansition theories as a major dark matter candidate. Since it is almost massless, its nature is more wavelike than particlelike. We study quantum mechanically how they from a galactic halo. Three predictions are made: (i) the mass profile ρ∼; (ii) there are ripplelike fine structures in the rotation curve; (iii) the rotation velocity multiplied by the ripple’s wavelength is galaxy independent.
- Received 28 March 1994
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.50.3650
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