Inner structure of cold and warm dark matter halos from particle dynamics
Abstract
Using the number of apocenter passages and the radial action of each particle, we characterize the phase-space structure within the multi-stream regions of cold and warm dark matter halos in cosmological -body simulations. Building on previous work by Enomoto et al. (2024), we analyze the radial density profiles of particles classified by and . 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 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 exhibit a steeper slope, ranging from to , those classified by follow a common slope of approximately . 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