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In this study, we aim to derive the entropy associated with a dark matter halo modeled using a double (broken) power-law density profile. Our approach is inspired by the pioneering work of Verlinde, who proposed that gravity may not be a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-07-04 Abdelhakim Benkrane

A large body of work based on collisionless cosmological N-body simulations going back over two decades has advanced the idea that collapsed dark matter haloes have simple and approximately universal forms for their mass density and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-06-24 Shaun T. Brown , Ian G. McCarthy , Benedikt Diemer , Andreea S. Font , Sam G. Stafford , Simon Pfeifer

We address the question of how well the density profile of galaxy clusters can be determined by combining strong lensing and velocity dispersion data. We use cosmological dark matter simulations of clusters to test the reliability of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-12-01 M. Meneghetti , M. Bartelmann , A. Jenkins , C. Frenk

Observations show that the underlying rotation curves at intermediate radii in spiral and low-surface brightness galaxies are nearly universal. Further, in these same galaxies, the product of the central density and the core radius…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 F. D. A. Hartwick

We use orbit based dynamical models to fit the 2nd and 4th moments of the line of sight velocity distributions of the Fornax, Sculptor, Carina and Sextans dwarf spheroidal galaxies. Our goal is to compare dark matter profile models of these…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 M. A. Breddels , A. Helmi

We develop and apply new techniques in order to uncover galaxy rotation curves (RC) systematics. Considering that an ideal dark matter (DM) profile should yield RCs that have no bias towards any particular radius, we find that the Burkert…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-07-07 Davi C. Rodrigues , Antonino del Popolo , Valerio Marra , Paulo L. C. de Oliveira

We use a high-resolution simulation of a galaxy-sized dark matter halo, published simulated data as well as four cluster-sized haloes from Fukushige, Kawai & Makino to study the inner halo structure in a Lambda cold dark matter cosmology.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Felix Stoehr

The observed flaring of HI disk in the outer region of galaxies has been used in the past to determine the shape of the dark matter halo. Previous studies based on this concept suggest a slightly oblate halo (axis ratio ~ 0.8) for our…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 C. A. Narayan , K. Saha , C. J. Jog

We compute the properties of dark matter halos with mass $10^{6.5}-10^9\msun$ at redshift $z=6-11$ in the standard cold dark matter cosmological model, utilizing a very high resolution N-body simulation. We find that dark matter halos in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Renyue Cen , Feng Dong , Paul Bode , Jeremiah P. Ostriker

The density profiles of dark matter halos are typically modeled using empirical formulae fitted to the density profiles of relaxed halo populations. We present a neural network model that is trained to learn the mapping from the raw density…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-06-08 Luisa Lucie-Smith , Hiranya V. Peiris , Andrew Pontzen , Brian Nord , Jeyan Thiyagalingam , Davide Piras

The cusped NFW universal density profile suggested by typical CDM models has been challenged in recent years by the discoveries of the soft cores for a broad range of masses from dwarf galaxies to clusters of galaxies. It is thus desirable…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Xiang-Ping Wu , Yan-Jie Xue

We perform a statistical weak lensing analysis of dark matter profiles around tracers of halo mass from galactic- to cluster-size halos. In this analysis we use 170,640 isolated ~L* galaxies split into ellipticals and spirals, 38,236 groups…

Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-18 Rachel Mandelbaum , Uros Seljak , Christopher M. Hirata

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

[Abridged] We analyse the dark matter (DM) halo properties of 127 0.3<z<1.5 star-forming galaxies (SFGs) down to low stellar masses (8<log(Mstar/Msun)<11), using data from the MUSE Hubble Ultra Deep Field Survey and photometry from HST and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-04-01 B. I. Ciocan , N. F. Bouché , J. Fensch , W. Mercier , D. Krajnović , J. Richard , T. Contini , A. Jeanneau

We measure the projected density profile, shape and alignment of the stellar and dark matter mass distribution in 11 strong-lens galaxies. We find that the projected dark matter density profile - under the assumption of a Chabrier stellar…

High-resolution cosmological N-body simulations were performed in order to study the substructure of Milky Way-like galactic halos and the density profiles of halos in a warm dark matter scenario. The results favor this scenario with…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 P. Colin , V. Avila-Reese , O. Valenzuela

The abundance of dark matter haloes is a key cosmological probe in forthcoming galaxy surveys. The theoretical understanding of the halo mass function (HMF) is limited by our incomplete knowledge of the origin of non-universality and its…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-08-05 Ningyuan Guo , Luisa Lucie-Smith , Hiranya V. Peiris , Andrew Pontzen , Davide Piras

We investigate how reliably the global properties of Milky Way-mass dark matter haloes can be recovered from dynamical data over a limited radial range, particularly $\lesssim 30~\mathrm{kpc}$ where observations are most sensitive but…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-03-17 Diego Dado , Shaun T. Brown , Azadeh Fattahi , Andreea S. Font , Ian G. McCarthy

Dark matter-baryon scaling relations in galaxies are important in order to constrain galaxy formation models. Here, we provide a modern quantitative assessment of those relations, by modelling the rotation curves of galaxies from the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-03-20 Amir Ghari , Benoit Famaey , Chervin Laporte , Hosein Haghi

We present an adaptation of the standard scenario of disk-galaxy formation to the concordant LCDM cosmology aimed to derive analytical expressions for the scale length and rotation speed of present-day disks that form within four different,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 L. Darriba , J. M. Solanes