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(Abridged) We study the outer density profiles of dark matter haloes predicted by a generalized secondary infall model and observed in a N-body cosmological simulation of a \Lambda CDM model. We find substantial systematic variations in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 V. Avila-Reese , C. Firmani , A. Klypin , A. V. Kravtsov

Dynamical modeling and strong lensing data indicate that the total density profiles of early-type galaxies are close to isothermal, i.e., rho_tot ~ r^gamma with gamma approx -2. To understand the origin of this universal slope we study a…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-12 Rhea-Silvia Remus , Andreas Burkert , Klaus Dolag , Peter H. Johansson , Thorsten Naab , Ludwig Oser , Jens Thomas

Dark matter mass density profiles and velocity distributions for a set of dwarf spheroidal galaxies (dSphs) have recently been obtained (F.Bezrukov, D.Gorbunov, E.Koreshkova arXiv:2412.20585) by performing a multi-parametric fit to the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-09-12 Fedor Bezrukov , Dmitry Gorbunov , Ekaterina Koreshkova

Halo Abundance Matching has been used to construct a one-parameter mapping between galaxies and dark matter haloes by assuming that halo mass and galaxy luminosity (or stellar mass) are monotonically related. While this approach has been…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-08-19 Andrea Kulier , Jeremiah P. Ostriker

The structural evolution of substructure in cold dark matter (CDM) models is investigated combining ``low-resolution'' satellites from cosmological N-body simulations of parent halos with N=10^7 particles with high-resolution individual…

We use N-body simulations to investigate the radial dependence of the density and velocity dispersion in cold dark matter (CDM) halos. In particular, we explore how closely Q rho/sigma^3, a surrogate measure of the phase-space density,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 Aaron D. Ludlow , Julio F. Navarro , Volker Springel , Mark Vogelsberger , Jie Wang , Simon D. M. White , Adrian Jenkins , Carlos S. Frenk

We use the Illustris Simulations to gain insight into the build-up of the outer, low-surface brightness regions which surround galaxies. We characterize the stellar haloes by means of the logarithmic slope of the spherically-averaged…

It has long been realized that dark matter halos formed in cosmological N-body simulations are characterized by density profiles rho(r) that, when suitably scaled, have similar shapes. Additionally, combining the density and velocity…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-11-05 Eric I. Barnes , Liliya L. R. Williams , Arif Babul , Julianne J. Dalcanton

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…

Galaxies show different halo scaling relations such as the Radial Acceleration Relation, the Mass Discrepancy Acceleration Relation (MDAR) or the dark matter Surface Density Relation (SDR). At difference with traditional studies using…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-03-08 A. Krut , C. R. Argüelles , P. -H. Chavanis , J. A. Rueda , R. Ruffini

High-resolution N--body simulations show a remarkable similarity in the structure of dark matter halos formed through dissipationless hierarchical clustering. Independent of halo mass, power spectrum, and cosmological parameters, the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-02-03 Julio F. Navarro

Given the recently deduced relationship between X-ray temperatures and stellar velocity dispersions (the "T-sigma relation") in an optically complete sample of elliptical galaxies (Davis & White 1996), we demonstrate that L>L_* ellipticals…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Michael Loewenstein , Raymond E. White

How much dark matter is there in the universe and where is it located? These are two of the most fundamental questions in cosmology. We use in this paper optical and x-ray mass determinations of galaxies, groups, and clusters of galaxies to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 Neta A. Bahcall , Lori M. Lubin , Victoria Dorman

We present a physical model of the Mass Accretion Histories (MAH) of haloes in concordance with the {\it observed} cosmic star formation rate density (CSFRD). We model the MAHs of dark matter haloes using a Gamma ($\Gamma$) functional form:…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-06-07 Antonios Katsianis , Xiaohu Yang , Matthew Fong , Jie Wang

We study the effects of mass and force resolution on the density profiles of galaxy-size Cold Dark Matter (CDM) halos in a flat, low-density cosmological model with vacuum energy. We show thatalthough increasing the mass and force…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Anatoly Klypin , Andrey V. Kravtsov , James Bullock , Joel Primack

Gravitational potential fluctuations driven by bursty star formation can kinematically 'heat up' dark matter at the centres of dwarf galaxies. A key prediction of such models is that, at a fixed dark matter halo mass, dwarfs with a higher…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-04-15 J. I. Read , M. G. Walker , P. Steger

We present robust constraints from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) on the shape and distribution of the dark matter halo within the Milky Way (MW). Using the number density distribution and kinematics of SDSS halo stars, we probe the…

We present mass models for the dark matter component of seven dwarf galaxies taken from "The HI Nearby Galaxy Survey" (THINGS) and compare these with those from numerical Lambda Cold Dark Matter (LCDM) simulations. The THINGS…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 Se-Heon Oh , W. J. G. de Blok , Elias Brinks , Fabian Walter , Robert C. Kennicutt

The velocity anisotropy of particles inside dark matter (DM) haloes is an important physical quantity, which is required for the accurate modelling of mass profiles of galaxies and clusters of galaxies. It is typically measured using the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 Radoslaw Wojtak , Stefan Gottloeber , Anatoly Klypin

We use numerical simulations in a Lambda CDM cosmology to model density profiles in a set of 16 dark matter haloes with resolutions of up to 7 million particles within the virial radius. These simulations allow us to follow robustly the…