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Distribution Function in Center of Dark Matter Halo

Astrophysics 2015-05-13 v2

Abstract

N-body simulations of dark matter halos show that the density profiles of halos behave as ρ(r)rα(r)\rho(r)\propto r^{-\alpha(r)}, where the density logarithmic slope α11.5\alpha \simeq 1\sim1.5 in the center and α34\alpha \simeq 3\sim 4 in the outer parts of halos. However, some observations are not in agreement with simulations in the very central region of halos. The simulations also show that velocity dispersion anisotropy parameter β0\beta\approx 0 in the inner part of the halo and the so called "pseudo phase-space density" ρ/σ3\rho/\sigma^3 behaves as a power-law in radius rr. With these results in mind, we study the distribution function and the pseudo phase-space density ρ/σ3\rho/\sigma^3 of the center of dark matter halos and find that they are closely-related.

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@article{arxiv.0806.0208,
  title  = {Distribution Function in Center of Dark Matter Halo},
  author = {Ding Ma and Ping He},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0806.0208},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

8 pages, accepted by Int. J. Mod. Phys. D, add a quotation and remove the appendix

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