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Cosmic acceleration is widely believed to require either a source of negative pressure (i.e., dark energy), or a modification of gravity, which necessarily implies new degrees of freedom beyond those of Einstein gravity. In this paper we…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-06-28 Lasha Berezhiani , Justin Khoury , Junpu Wang

We explore the well know mass deficit/surplus phenomenon in General Relativity to suggest that it could play a part in the dark matter conundrum. Specifically in collapses and condensations of matter associated with negative intrinsic…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-07-17 Raymond Isichei , Joao Magueijo

All dark matter structures appear to follow a set of universalities, such as phase-space density or velocity anisotropy profiles, however, the origin of these universalities remains a mystery. Any equilibrated dark matter structure can be…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 Steen H. Hansen , Martin Sparre

We discuss solutions of Vlasov-Einstein equation for collisionless dark matter particles in the context of a flat Friedmann universe. We show that, after decoupling from the primordial plasma, the dark matter phase-space density indicator Q…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-11-05 Oliver F. Piattella , Davi C. Rodrigues , Júlio C. Fabris , José A. de Freitas Pacheco

We consider a cosmological model in which the two major fluid components of the Universe, dark energy and dark matter, flow with distinct four-velocities. This cosmological configuration is equivalent to a single anisotropic fluid,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-07-24 Tiberiu Harko , Francisco S. N. Lobo

We identify a universal relation between the radial density slope \alpha (r) and the velocity anisotropy \beta (r) for equilibrated structures. This relation holds for a variety of systems, including disk galaxy mergers, spherical…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Steen H. Hansen , Ben Moore

Dark matter dominates the properties of large cosmological structures such as galaxy clusters, and the mass profiles of the dark matter have been measured for these equilibrated structures for years using X-rays, lensing or galaxy…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-10-28 Jacob Svensmark , Steen H. Hansen , Davide Martizzi , Ben Moore , Romain Teyssier

We perform a detailed phase-space analysis of various phantom cosmological models, where the dark energy sector interacts with the dark matter one. We examine whether there exist late-time scaling attractors, corresponding to an…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-12-04 Xi-ming Chen , Yungui Gong , Emmanuel N. Saridakis

Axions, and axion-like particles, have come back into fashion in the last decades as a possible solution to the galactic-scale crisis suffered by the cold dark matter model. In the framework of the wave Dark Matter model, we have carried…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-12-13 Ivan De Martino

Dark matter (DM) halos formed in CDM cosmologies seem to be characterized by a power law phase-space density profile. The density of the DM halos is often fitted by the NFW profile but a better fit is provided by the Sersic fitting formula.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Amir Zait , Yehuda Hoffman , Isaac Shlosman

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

We perform a detailed investigation of interacting phantom cosmology, by applying the powerful method of dynamical system analysis. We consider two well-studied interaction forms, namely one global and one local one, while the novel…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-07-11 Sudip Halder , S. D. Odintsov , Supriya Pan , Tapan Saha , Emmanuel N. Saridakis

We investigate the possibility that dark matter is a mixture of two non-interacting perfect fluids, with different four-velocities and thermodynamic parameters. The two-fluid model can be described as an effective single anisotropic fluid,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-06-30 Tiberiu Harko , Francisco S. N. Lobo

In the scalar-tensor theory of gravitation it seems nontrivial to establish if solutions of the cosmological equations in the presence of a cosmological constant behave as attractors independently of the initial values. We develop a general…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-06 Kei-ichi Maeda , Yasunori Fujii

We study dynamical behaviors of the dark energy models interacting with dark matter and unparticle in the standard flat FRW cosmology. We considered four different interacting models and examined the stability of the critical points. We…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-04-15 Songbai Chen , Jiliang Jing

In our current best cosmological model, the vast majority of matter in the Universe is dark, consisting of yet undetected, non-baryonic particles that do not interact electro-magnetically. So far, the only significant evidence for dark…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-09-09 Jenny Wagner

We study how the internal structure of dark halos is affected if Cold Dark Matter particles are assumed to have a large cross-section for elastic collisions. We identify a cluster halo in a large cosmological N-body simulation and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 N. Yoshida , V. Springel , S. D. M. White , G. Tormen

We investigate the cosmological dynamics of interacting dark energy within the framework of $\alpha$-attractor models. Specifically, we analyze the associated autonomous system, focusing on its fixed points that represent dark energy and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-12-04 L. K. Duchaniya , B. Mishra , G. Otalora , M. Gonzalez-Espinoza

This paper investigates the cosmological dynamics arising from the interaction between a 2-form field and cold dark matter within a Bianchi I background. Employing a dynamical system analysis, we identify two attractors yielding to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-07-12 J. Bayron Orjuela-Quintana , Jose L. Palacios-Córdoba , César A. Valenzuela-Toledo

We use extensive measurements of the cluster A1689 to assess the expected similarity in the dynamics of galaxies and dark matter (DM) in their motion as collisionless `particles' in the cluster gravitational potential. To do so we derive…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 Doron Lemze , Yoel Rephaeli , Rennan Barkana , Tom Broadhurst , Rick Wagner , Mike L. Norman