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We derive inner dark matter halo density profiles for a sample of 165 low-mass galaxies using rotation curves obtained from high-quality, long-slit optical spectra assuming minimal disks and spherical symmetry. For $\rho(r) \sim…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Kristine Spekkens , Riccardo Giovanelli , Martha P. Haynes

Observations of a flat density profile in the cores of dark-matter-dominated halos on the two extremes of mass for virialized objects in the universe, dwarf galaxies and galaxy clusters, present a serious challenge to the current standard…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Paul R. Shapiro , Ilian T. Iliev

We study the density profile of a dwarf halo in the decaying dark matter (DDM) cosmology, using a new algorithm that resolves halo density profiles down to the innermost $700$ pc robustly with high efficiency. Following Schwarzschild's…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-01-20 Jianxiong Chen , M. -C. Chu

A defining prediction of the cold dark matter (CDM) cosmological model is the existence of a very large population of low-mass haloes. This population is absent in models in which the dark matter particle is warm (WDM). These alternatives…

The statistical mechanics of N cold dark matter (CDM) particles interacting via a softened gravitational potential is reviewed in the microcanonical ensemble and mean-field limit. A phase diagram for the system is computed as a function of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2014-10-13 Cathryn M. Trott , Andrew Melatos

We consider the steady-state regime describing the density profile of a dark matter halo, if dark matter is treated as a Bose-Einstein condensate. We first solve the fluid equation for "canonical" cold dark matter, obtaining a class of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-04-10 Luca Visinelli

We present the evolution of the structure of relaxed cold dark matter haloes in the cosmology from the Planck satellite. Our simulations cover 5 decades in halo mass, from dwarf galaxies to galaxy clusters. Due to the increased matter…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-18 Aaron A. Dutton , Andrea V. Macciò

In the last time the cold dark matter (CDM) model has suggested more and more that it is not able to describe all the properties of nearby galaxies that can be observed in great detail as well as that it has some problems in the mechanism…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 Juan Magaña , Tonatiuh Matos , Victor Robles , Abril Suárez

Recent observations indicate that dark matter haloes have flat central density profiles. Cosmological simulations with non-baryonic dark matter predict however self similar haloes with central density cusps. This contradiction has lead to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 A. Burkert

We explore the possibility that the density profiles of elliptical galaxies and cold dark matter (CDM) halos found in cosmological simulations can be understood in terms of the same physical process, collisionless gravitational collapse. To…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-06-27 Eli Visbal , Abraham Loeb , Lars Hernquist

Maximum disk mass models fitted to galaxy rotation curves are used to show that dark matter (DM) halos in late-type and dwarf spheroidal (dSph) galaxies satisfy well defined scaling laws. Halos in less luminous galaxies have smaller core…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 John Kormendy , K. C. Freeman

Cold dark matter (CDM) models predict small-scale structure in excess of observations of the cores and abundance of dwarf galaxies. These problems might be solved, and the virtues of CDM models retained, even without postulating {\it ad…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Wayne Hu , Rennan Barkana , Andrei Gruzinov

I review the up-to-date status on the properties of the Dark Matter density distribution around Galaxies. The rotation curves of spirals all conform to a same Universal profile which can be uniquely decomposed as the sum of an exponential…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Paolo Salucci

The rotation curves of dark matter dominated dwarf galaxies are analysed. The observations show that dark matter halos represent a one-parameter family with self similar density profiles. The global halo parameters, like total mass and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Andreas Burkert

We use a set of high-resolution cosmological N-body simulations to investigate the inner mass profile of galaxy-sized cold dark matter (CDM) halos. These simulations extend the thorough numerical convergence study presented in Paper I of…

The `core-cusp' problem is considered a key challenge to the LCDM paradigm. Halos in dark matter only simulations exhibit `cuspy' profiles, where density continuously increases towards the centre. However, the dark matter profiles of many…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-01-09 R. A. Jackson , S. Kaviraj , S. K. Yi , S. Peirani , Y. Dubois , G. Martin , J. E. G. Devriendt , A. Slyz , C. Pichon , M. Volonteri , T. Kimm , K. Kraljic

In this paper, we formulate a new model of density distribution for halos made of warm dark matter (WDM) particles. The model is described by a single microphysics parameter - the mass (or, equivalently, the maximal value of the initial…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-08-30 A. Rudakovskyi , D. Savchenko

We have performed a series of numerical experiments to investigate how the primordial thermal velocities of fermionic dark matter particles affect the physical and phase space density profiles of the dark matter haloes into which they…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-01-22 Shi Shao , Liang Gao , Tom Theuns , Carlos S. Frenk

The development of methods and algorithms to solve the $N$-body problem for classical, collisionless, non-relativistic particles has made it possible to follow the growth and evolution of cosmic dark matter structures over most of the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-06-22 Jesús Zavala , Carlos S. Frenk

The conventional cold, particle interpretation of dark matter (CDM) still lacks laboratory support and struggles with the basic properties of common dwarf galaxies, which have surprisingly uniform central masses and shallow density…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2014-06-26 Hsi-Yu Schive , Tzihong Chiueh , Tom Broadhurst