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arxiv: 0905.2084 · v1 · submitted 2009-05-13 · 🌌 astro-ph.CO · astro-ph.GA

Comments on "Modeling Galaxy Halos Using Dark Matter with Pressure"

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We comment on the calculational mistake in the paper "Modeling galaxy halos using dark matter with pressure" by Somnath Bharadwaj and Sayan Kar. The authors made a mistake while calculating the metric, which led to an overestimate of the deflection angle of light passing through the halos for -1<w_r<-0.5 and an underestimate of the deflection angle for -0.5<w_r<0. In addition, solution for w_r>0 should not exist. Although the Bharadwaj-Kar solution should be corrected, it appears that the characteristics of the deflection angle under the supposed non-conventional non-ideal fluid equation of state for the dark matter halo remain sensitive to the impact parameter and may be verifiable through observations.

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