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The condensation of baryons within a dark matter (DM) halo during galaxy formation should result in some contraction of the halo as the combined system settles into equilibrium. We quantify this effect on the cuspy primordial halos…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-09-21 Pengfei Li , Stacy S. McGaugh , Federico Lelli , James M. Schombert , Marcel S. Pawlowski

This work is a review of the last results of research on the Scalar Field Dark Matter model of the Universe at cosmological and at galactic level. We present the complete solution to the scalar field cosmological scenario in which the dark…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 T. Matos , F. S. Guzman , L. A. Urena-Lopez , D. Nunez

The dynamical friction problem is a long-standing dilemma about globular clusters (hereafter,GCs) belonging to dwarf galaxies. GCs are strongly affected by dynamical friction in dwarf galaxies, and are presumed to fall into the galactic…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Shigeki M. Inoue

Recently there has been much interest in light dark matter, especially ultra-light axions, as they may provide a solution to the core-cusp problem at the center of galaxies. Since very light bosons can have a de Broglie wavelength that is…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-09-18 Heling Deng , Mark P. Hertzberg , Mohammad Hossein Namjoo , Ali Masoumi

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

We use a set of cosmological N-body simulations to investigate the structural shape of galaxy-sized cold dark matter (CDM) halos. Unlike most previous work on the subject - which dealt with shapes as measured by the inertia tensor - we…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 E. Hayashi , J. F. Navarro , V. Springel

We use the concept of co-added rotation curves of Salucci et al. to investigate the properties of axi-symmetric multistate Scalar Field Dark Matter halos in low surface brightness galaxies and dwarf disc galaxies. We fit their rotation…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-03-10 Jordi Solís-López , Luis E. Padilla , Tonatiuh Matos

In this work, we construct galactic halos in order to fit the rotation curves (RCs) of a sample of low surface brightness (LSB) galaxies. These halos are made of Fuzzy Dark Matter (FDM) with a multimode expansion of non-spherical modes that…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-10-07 Ivan Alvarez-Rios , Tula Bernal , Pierre-Henri Chavanis , Francisco S. Guzman

Fuzzy Dark Matter (FDM), consisting of ultralight bosons, is an intriguing alternative to Cold Dark Matter. Numerical simulations solving the Schr\"odinger-Poisson (SP) equation, which governs FDM dynamics, show that FDM halos consist of a…

The inability of standard non-interacting cold dark matter (CDM) to account for the small scale structure of individual galaxies has led to the suggestion that the dark matter may undergo elastic and/or inelastic scattering. We simulate the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 Matthew W. Craig , Marc Davis

We have derived the first, fully-cosmological, similarity solutions for CDM halo formation in the presence of nongravitational collisionality, which provides an analytical theory of the effect of the self-interacting dark matter (SIDM)…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Kyungjin Ahn , Paul R. Shapiro

In the present work, the Brans-Dicke (BD) theory of gravity is taken as a possible theory of k-essence. Then starting with the (already known) Brans-Dicke-Schwarzschild solution which can represent the gravitationally bound static…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Hongsu Kim

Motivated by the observation of extended stellar cores in dark matter (DM) dominated dwarf galaxies, this study investigates a simple mechanism by which stellar cores can form as a result of DM halo expansion. Several non-CDM models predict…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-10-22 Jorge Sanchez Almeida , Angel R. Plastino , Ignacio Trujillo

The properties of substructure in galaxy clusters, exquisitely probed by gravitational lensing, offer a stringent test of dark matter (DM) models. Combining strong- and weak-lensing data for massive clusters, we map their total mass --…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-12 Priyamvada Natarajan , Barry T. Chiang , Isaque Dutra

We build a spherical halo model for galaxies using a general scalar-tensor theory of gravity in its Newtonian limit. The scalar field is described by a time-independent Klein-Gordon equation with a source that is coupled to the standard…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2009-03-24 Jorge L. Cervantes-Cota , Mario A. Rodriguez-Meza , Dario Nunez

Well known scaling laws among the structural properties of the dark and the luminous matter in disc systems are too complex to be arisen by two inert components that just share the same gravitational field. This brings us to critically…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-03-10 Paolo Salucci , Nicola Turini

We study the scaling relations between dark matter (DM) haloes and galaxy discs using 175 galaxies from the SPARC database. We explore two cosmologically motivated DM halo profiles: the Einasto profile from DM-only simulations and the DC14…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-11-14 Pengfei Li , Federico Lelli , Stacy S. McGaugh , Nathaniel Starkman , James M. Schombert

Recently a new particle physics model called Bound Dark Matter (BDM) has been proposed in which dark matter (DM) particles are massless above a threshold energy (Ec) and acquire mass below it due to nonperturbative methods. Therefore, the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-05-30 Jorge Mastache , Axel de la Macorra , Jorge L. Cervantes-Cota

In this paper, we explore the Oscillating Asymmetric Dark Matter (OADM) model to address the core-cusp problem, aiming to resolve the discrepancy between the predictions of the $\Lambda\rm{CDM}$ cosmological model and the observed dark…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-02-18 Júlia G. Mamprim , Guillermo Gambini , Luan B. Arbeletche , Marcos Olegario , Vitor de Souza

By studying the chameleon gravity on galaxy scales, we investigate the effects of the chameleon dark matter. To perform this task, we consider the dynamics of the chameleon scalar field in the region of galactic halos in static spherically…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-07-22 Raziyeh Zaregonbadi , Nasim Saba , Mehrdad Farhoudi