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Probing the Schwarzschild black hole immersed in a dark matter halo through astrophysical tests

2025/07/17 by Tursunali Xamidov, Xamidov, Tursunali, Sanjar Shaymatov +5 · 3 citations
Physics and Astronomy · #Relativity and Gravitational Theory #Astrophysical Phenomena and Observations #Experimental and Theoretical Physics Studies

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2507.13147

Abstract

We investigate a recently derived Schwarzschild-like black hole immersed in a Dehnen-type (α,β,γ)=(1,4,5/2) dark matter (DM) halo. We obtain constraints on the two model parameters, i.e., the halo core radius rs and the DM density parameter ρs in both the weak and the strong field regimes. In the weak field, we model test particle geodesics and match the predicted perihelion shift to Mercury (Solar System) and the orbit of the S2 star data. We obtain upper limits on rs and ρs and highlight that the DM halo effects become observable only around supermassive BHs. In the strong field, we analyse twin high frequency quasiperiodic oscillations (QPOs) from four microquasars (e.g., GRO~J1655-40, GRS~1915+105, XTE~J1859+226, and XTE~J1550-564). Because QPO frequencies depend only on the local spacetime curvature, they can serve as a probe of halo-induced deviations from general relativity. Our MCMC analysis produces posterior distributions for model parameters, revealing close agreement between the theoretical QPO frequencies and the observations for GRS 1915+105 and GRO J1655-40. The same analysis also yielded best-fit values and upper bounds for each parameter. Our combined geodesic and QPO analysis demonstrates that timelike orbits and epicyclic oscillations can act as sensitive probes of DM halos around BHs, offering a pathway to distinguish Dehnen-type profiles from alternative DM distributions in future analysis and observations.

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