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Fuzzy dark matter soliton core hosting a supermassive black hole as a dense low-mass perturber in strong gravitational lensing
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Recent high-resolution imaging observations of strong lens systems reveal dense low-mass perturbers. We propose a soliton core, whose central density is boosted by a supermassive black hole (SMBH), in the fuzzy dark matter (FDM) model as an efficient perturber in strong gravitational lensing. The higher central density makes it less efficient in the tidal mass loss, and leads to the higher impact in gravitational lensing. We show that the mass profile of a $\sim 10^6M_\odot$ perturber in JVAS B1938+666, which does not resemble any known astronomical object, can be well explained by a soliton core in the FDM model with the mass of $4\times 10^{-21}$eV hosting an SMBH with the mass of $4\times 10^5M_\odot$. The high mass of the SMBH may be explained by several scenarios that predict heavy SMBH seeds such as the direct collapse black hole formation and primordial black holes.
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PHANTOM: A MATLAB and Octave Toolbox Connecting Linear Field Statistics to Dark Matter Halo Observables
PHANTOM is a public MATLAB/Octave toolbox for linear field statistics and halo observables in dark matter cosmology, validated to sub-percent agreement with Python packages colossus, hmf, and halomod.