Galactic dark matter in the phantom field
Abstract
We investigate the possibility that the galactic dark matter exists in a scenario where the phantom field is responsible for the dark energy. We obtain the statically and spherically approximate solution for this kind of galaxy system with a supermassive black hole at its center. The solution of the metric functions is satisfied with gtt=-grr-1. Constrained by the observation of the rotational stars moving in circular orbits with nearly constant tangential speed in a spiral galaxy, the background of the phantom field which is spatially inhomogeneous has an exponential potential. To avoid the well-known quantum instability of the vacuum at high frequencies, the phantom field defined in an effective theory is valid only at low energies. Under this assumption, we further investigate the following properties. The absorption cross section of the low-energy S-wave excitations of the phantom field into the central black hole is shown to be the horizontal area of the central black hole. Because the infalling phantom particles have a total negative energy, the accretion of the phantom energy is related to the decrease of the black hole mass, which is estimated to be much less than a solar mass in the lifetime of the Universe. Using a simple model with the cold dark matter very weakly coupled to the “low-frequency” phantom particles that are generated from the background, we show that these two densities can be quasistable in the galaxy.
- Publication:
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Physical Review D
- Pub Date:
- December 2012
- DOI:
- 10.1103/PhysRevD.86.123015
- arXiv:
- arXiv:1204.3178
- Bibcode:
- 2012PhRvD..86l3015L
- Keywords:
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- 95.36.+x;
- 04.70.Dy;
- 11.25.Db;
- 98.35.Gi;
- Dark energy;
- Quantum aspects of black holes evaporation thermodynamics;
- Properties of perturbation theory;
- Galactic halo;
- Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics;
- General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology;
- High Energy Physics - Phenomenology;
- High Energy Physics - Theory
- E-Print:
- 13 pages, 2 figure, a new figure and 3 references added, version to appear in PRD