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Inner structure of cold and warm dark matter halos from particle dynamics

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics 2025-01-22 v2 Astrophysics of Galaxies

Abstract

Using the number of apocenter passages pp and the radial action JrJ_r of each particle, we characterize the phase-space structure within the multi-stream regions of cold and warm dark matter halos in cosmological NN-body simulations. Building on previous work by Enomoto et al. (2024), we analyze the radial density profiles of particles classified by pp and JrJ_r. We find that the profiles consistently follow a double power-law structure, independent of the dark matter model or halo mass. The inner profile exhibits a ρr1\rho \propto r^{-1} behavior, which is consistent with previous studies. Notably, this characteristics persist across both classification schemes. In contrast, the outer power-law profiles display distinct behaviors depending on the classification. While particles classified by pp exhibit a steeper slope, ranging from 6-6 to 8-8, those classified by JrJ_r follow a common slope of approximately 3.5-3.5. Overall, the amplitude of the double power-law profiles varies between simulations for different dark matter models, but this variation can be attributed to statistical differences in the concentration of halos across the models.

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@article{arxiv.2410.00195,
  title  = {Inner structure of cold and warm dark matter halos from particle dynamics},
  author = {Yohsuke Enomoto and Atsushi Taruya and Satoshi Tanaka and Takahiro Nishimichi},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2410.00195},
  year   = {2025}
}

Comments

19 pages, 16 figures. Comments are welcome. Version consistent with those accepted from PASJ