Ultralight Boson Dark Matter and Event Horizon Telescope Observations of
Abstract
The initial information from the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) on , the supermassive black hole at the center of the M87 Galaxy, provide direct observational information on its mass, spin, and accretion disk properties. A combination of the EHT data and other constraints provides evidence that has a mass ~6.5 × 109 M⊙. EHT also inferred the dimensionless spin parameter |a*| ≳ 0.5 from jet properties; a separate recent analysis using only the light from near as measured by the EHT Collaboration found |a*|= 0.9 ± 0.1 . These determinations disfavor ultralight bosons of mass μb ϵ (0.85, 4.6) × 10–21 eV for spin-one bosons and μb ϵ (2.9, 4.6) × 10–21 eV for spin-zero bosons, within the range considered for fuzzy dark matter, invoked to explain dark matter distribution on approximately kiloparsec scales. Future observations of could be expected to determine our conclusions.
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- Brookhaven National Lab. (BNL), Upton, NY (United States)
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- Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL), Upton, NY (United States)
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- USDOE Office of Science (SC), High Energy Physics (HEP)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1550793
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- OSTI ID: 1546446
- Report Number(s):
- BNL-211936-2019-JAAM
Journal ID: ISSN 0031-9007; PRLTAO
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- SC0012704
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- Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- Physical Review Letters
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Volume: 123; Journal Issue: 2; Journal ID: ISSN 0031-9007
- Publisher:
- American Physical Society (APS)
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 72 PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS; boson; ultralight; dark matter; M87; telescope
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Davoudiasl, Hooman, and Denton, Peter B. Ultralight Boson Dark Matter and Event Horizon Telescope Observations of M87*. United States: N. p., 2019.
Web. doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.123.021102.
Davoudiasl, Hooman, & Denton, Peter B. Ultralight Boson Dark Matter and Event Horizon Telescope Observations of M87*. United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.123.021102
Davoudiasl, Hooman, and Denton, Peter B. Wed .
"Ultralight Boson Dark Matter and Event Horizon Telescope Observations of M87*". United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.123.021102. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1550793.
@article{osti_1550793,
title = {Ultralight Boson Dark Matter and Event Horizon Telescope Observations of M87*},
author = {Davoudiasl, Hooman and Denton, Peter B.},
abstractNote = {The initial information from the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) on M87*, the supermassive black hole at the center of the M87 Galaxy, provide direct observational information on its mass, spin, and accretion disk properties. A combination of the EHT data and other constraints provides evidence that M87* has a mass ~6.5 × 109 M⊙. EHT also inferred the dimensionless spin parameter |a*| ≳ 0.5 from jet properties; a separate recent analysis using only the light from near M87* as measured by the EHT Collaboration found |a*|= 0.9 ± 0.1 . These determinations disfavor ultralight bosons of mass μb ϵ (0.85, 4.6) × 10–21 eV for spin-one bosons and μb ϵ (2.9, 4.6) × 10–21 eV for spin-zero bosons, within the range considered for fuzzy dark matter, invoked to explain dark matter distribution on approximately kiloparsec scales. Future observations of M87* could be expected to determine our conclusions.},
doi = {10.1103/PhysRevLett.123.021102},
journal = {Physical Review Letters},
number = 2,
volume = 123,
place = {United States},
year = {Wed Jul 10 00:00:00 EDT 2019},
month = {Wed Jul 10 00:00:00 EDT 2019}
}
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FIG. 1: Regions of parameter space constrained by observations of SMBHs. The orange (blue) region is ruled out for vector (scalar) bosons by M87. Note that the constraints apply to both parity even and parity odd particles. Each constraint is derived using the 1 σ conservative values for the massmore »
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