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In this paper we are exploring the differences between a Warm Dark Matter model and a CDM model where the power on a certain scale is reduced by introducing a narrow negative feature ("dip"). This dip is placed in a way so as to mimic the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Brett Little , Alexander Knebe , Ranty Islam

We study the statistics of dwarf galaxy populations as a function of environment in the cold dark matter (CDM) and warm dark matter (WDM) cosmogonies, using hydrodynamical simulations starting from initial conditions with matched phases but…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-12-04 Tamar Meshveliani , Mark R. Lovell , Robert A. Crain , Joel Pfeffer

We investigate the population of bright satellites ($M_{*} \geq 10^{5} \mathrm{M}_{\odot}$) of haloes of mass comparable to that of the Milky Way in cosmological simulations in which the dark matter (DM) is either cold, warm or…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-11-04 Victor J. Forouhar Moreno , Alejandro Benitez-Llambay , Shaun Cole , Carlos Frenk

Studying the smallest self-bound dark matter structure in our Universe can yield important clues about the fundamental particle nature of dark matter. Galaxy-scale strong gravitational lensing provides a unique way to detect and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-01-10 Ana Diaz Rivero , Francis-Yan Cyr-Racine , Cora Dvorkin

The mass and composition of dark matter (DM) particles and the shape and damping scales of the power spectrum of density perturbations can be estimated from recent observations of the DM dominated relaxed objects -- dwarf galaxies and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-08-22 M. Demianski , A. Doroshkevich

We predict the observable properties of the galaxy population in popular hierarchical models of galaxy formation. We employ a detailed semianalytic procedure which incorporates the formation and merging of dark matter halos, the shock…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Jeremy S. Heyl , Shaun Cole , Carlos S. Frenk , Julio F. Navarro

Quantum mechanics is necessary to compute galaxy structures at kpc scales and below. This is so because near the galaxy center, at scales below 10 - 100 pc, warm dark matter (WDM) quantum effects are important: observations show that the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 C. Destri , H. J. de Vega , N. G. Sanchez

(Abridged) Using high-resolution cosmological N-body simulations, we study how the density profiles of dark matter halos are affected by the filtering of the density power spectrum below a given scale length and by the introduction of a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-09-25 V. Avila-Reese , P. Colin , O. Valenzuela , E. D'Onghia , C. Firmani

Studies of flux anomalies statistics and perturbations in stellar streams have the potential to constrain models of warm dark matter (WDM), including sterile neutrinos. Producing these constraints requires a parametrization of the WDM mass…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-07-24 Mark R. Lovell

The epoch of galaxy formation provides an important additional test of cosmological theories. Cold-dark-matter (CDM) models with cosmological constant ($\Lambda$) are designed to account for the observed excess power in galaxy distribution,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 A. Kashlinsky , R. Jimenez

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

Warm dark matter has been strongly constrained in recent years as the sole component of dark matter. However, a less-explored alternative is that dark matter consists of a mixture of warm and cold dark matter (MWDM). In this work, we use…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-01 Chin Yi Tan , Ariane Dekker , Alex Drlica-Wagner

Deep observations of galaxy outskirts reveal faint extended stellar components (ESCs) of streams, shells, and halos, which are ghostly remnants of the tidal disruption of satellite galaxies. We use cosmological galaxy formation simulations…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-03-29 Chris Power

We develop a perturbative model to describe large-scale structure in cosmologies where dark matter consists of a mixture of cold (CDM) and warm (WDM) components. In such mixed dark matter (MDM) scenarios, even a subdominant warm component…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-11 Şafak Çelik , Fabian Schmidt

Although the standard $\Lambda$+Cold Dark Matter ($\Lambda$CDM) model is well tested on large scales, the primordial power spectrum may deviate from the $\Lambda$CDM spectrum on small scales due to specific dark matter properties or…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-03-03 Ariane Dekker , Andrey Kravtsov

We study clusters in Warm Dark Matter (WDM) models of a thermally produced dark matter particle $0.5$ keV in mass. We show that, despite clusters in WDM cosmologies having similar density profiles as their Cold Dark Matter (CDM)…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-22 Pascal J. Elahi , Hareth S. Mahdi , Chris Power , Geraint F. Lewis

A semi-analytical model for the evolution of galaxies and supermassive black holes (SMBHs) within the $\Lambda$CDM paradigm has been shown to yield stellar mass-BH mass relations that reproduce both the JWST and pre-JWST observations.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-13 John Ellis , Malcolm Fairbairn , Juan Urrutia , Ville Vaskonen

The dark energy dominated warm dark matter (WDM) model is a promising alternative cosmological scenario. We explore large-scale structure formation in this paradigm. We do this in two different ways: with the halo model approach and with…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 Aurel Schneider , Robert E. Smith , Andrea V. Maccio , Ben Moore

Using a set of high-resolution N-body simulations, we extend the unified distribution model of cold dark matter (CDM) subhaloes to the warm dark matter(WDM) case. The same model framework combining the unevolved mass function, unevolved…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-09-06 Feihong He , Jiaxin Han , Hongyu Gao , Jiajun Zhang

We present warm dark matter (WDM) as a possible solution to the missing satellites and angular momentum problem in galaxy formation and introduce improved initial conditions for numerical simulations of WDM models, which avoid the formation…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Martin Goetz , Jesper Sommer-Larsen