Galactic halos as boson stars.

@article{Lee1996GalacticHA,
title={Galactic halos as boson stars.},
author={Lee and Koh},
journal={Physical review. D, Particles and fields},
year={1996},
volume={53 4},
pages={
2236-2239
}
}
• Lee, Koh
• Published 1996
• Physics, Medicine
• Physical review. D, Particles and fields
We investigate the boson star with the self-interacting scalar field as a model of galactic halos. The model has slightly increasing rotation curves and allows wider ranges of the mass($m$) and coupling($\lambda$) of the halo dark matter particle than the non-interacting model previously suggested(ref.\cite{sin1}). Two quantities are related by $\lambda^{\frac{1}{2}} (m_p/m)^2\st{>}{\sim} 10^{50}$.

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