Publication
Extremely light bosonic wave dark matter (y/DM) is an emerging dark matter candidate contesting the conventional cold dark matter paradigm and a model subject to intense scrutiny of late. This work for the first time reports testable salient features pertinent to gravitational lenses of Psi DM halos. Psi DM halos are distinctly filled with large-amplitude, small-scale density fluctuations with delta rho/rho(halo) similar to 1 in form of density granules. This halo yields ubiquitous flux ratio anomalies of a few tens of percent, as is typically found for lensed quasars, and may also produce rare hexad and octad images for sources located in well-defined caustic zones. We have found new critical features appearing in the highly demagnified lens center when the halo has sufficiently high surface density near a very compact massive core.