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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 2.

Lensing signatures of BEC-ULDM halos. The left three columns show halos with ULDM particle mass m = 2.92 × 10−22 eV and angular velocities Ω = 0, 0.94, 1.25 deg Myr−1 (left to right). The rightmost column shows a halo with m = 10−20 eV and Ω = 1.25 deg Myr−1, which produces a smaller core size. Top panels: simulated lensed images convolved with a 1 mas beam. Middle panels: magnification maps in the source plane. The vortices distort the critical curves and generate small, closed high-magnification loops. Bottom panels: overlays of the lensed images and magnification maps. Brightness anomalies appear where the lensed arc intersects the vortex-induced caustic loops.

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