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Born in the Dark: The Catastrophic Collapse of Fuzzy Dark Matter Solitons as the Origin of Little Red Dots

  • Authors: Tak-Pong Woo

Tak-Pong Woo 2026 The Astrophysical Journal 1002 .

  • Provider: AAS Journals

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Validation of a compact soliton core in an idealized merger. Radial density profile of the simulated core (red points) compared to the analytic soliton solution (blue line; fitted rc = 2.32 in code units). Both axes are shown in code units; the corresponding physical scaling for m22 = 2 is given in Section 4 (yielding rc ≃ 51 pc and Mc ≃ 7.8 × 108 M). The deviation at large radii reflects unrelaxed merger debris and finite-box/periodic-boundary effects and does not affect the inner soliton core relevant for our analytic estimates.

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