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Dipolar dark matter simulations on galaxy scales with the RAMSES code

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics 2022-10-05 v1 Astrophysics of Galaxies

Abstract

We numerically explore on galaxy scales the Dipolar dark matter (DM) model based on the concept of gravitational polarization. This DM model has been proposed as a natural way to reproduce observed tight galactic scaling relations such as the baryonic Tully-Fisher relation and the Radial Acceleration Relation. We present a customized version of the \texttt{RAMSES} code including for the first time the dynamics of this Dipolar DM in NN-body simulations. As a first application of this code, we check that we recover an equilibrium configuration that had been found analytically, where a low density Dipolar DM halo is at rest with respect to its central galaxy, recovering the aforementioned scaling relations. A characteristic signature of this equilibrium model is that it harbours a dynamical instability with a characteristic time depending on the Dipolar DM halo density, which we recover numerically. This represents a first step towards more involved simulations needed to test this framework, ranging from galaxy interactions to structure formation.

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Cite

@article{arxiv.2209.07831,
  title  = {Dipolar dark matter simulations on galaxy scales with the RAMSES code},
  author = {Clément Stahl and Benoit Famaey and Guillaume Thomas and Yohan Dubois and Rodrigo Ibata},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2209.07831},
  year   = {2022}
}

Comments

9 pages, 5 figures, 1 table, MNRAS accepted

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