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Observational Signatures of Dark Matter Vortices in Ultralight Bosonic Halos via Gravitational Lensing

  • Authors: Rongzi Zhou, Dylan M. H. Leung, Jason S. C. Poon, Ming-Chung Chu

Rongzi Zhou et al 2026 The Astrophysical Journal Letters 1006 .

  • Provider: AAS Journals

Caption: Figure 1.

Projected density profiles of rotating BEC-ULDM halos for particle masses m = 2.92 × 10−22 eV (left), 10−20 eV (middle), and 10−18 eV (right), obtained by scaling the same dimensionless profile discussed in the Appendix. In each column, the angular velocity increases from top to bottom, with its value shown in each panel. The emergence of quantized vortices (underdensity regions highlighted by dashed circles in the upper right quadrant in the leftmost panel) is evident as the rotation speed increases.

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