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Color-magnitude diagrams from deep, wide-field CCD photometry of the Sculptor dwarf spheroidal galaxy reveal that the red horizonal branch (RHB) stars are strongly concentrated towards the center of the galaxy relative to the dominant old…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 D. Hurley-Keller , M. Mateo , E. Grebel

Dark matter-only simulations predict that dark matter halos have steep, cuspy inner density profiles, while observations of dwarf galaxies find a range of inner slopes that are often much shallower. There is debate whether this discrepancy…

Understanding the large-scale structure of the universe remains a fundamental challenge in cosmology, with computational simulations providing critical insights into non-linear structure growth. Particularly, computational simulations…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-12 Nitish Yadav

In this paper, we present a simple chiral 2d theory living on a momentum space celestial sphere whose behaviour exactly produces various IR dynamics of recent resurged interests for 4d (selfdual) Einstein gravity in asymptotically flat…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-12-31 Wei Bu , Sean Seet

The morphological properties of the Carina, Sculptor and Fornax dwarfs are investigated using new wide field data with a total area of 29 square degrees. The stellar density maps are derived, hinting that Sculptor possesses tidal tails…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 C. J. Walcher , J. W. Fried , A. Burkert , R. S. Klessen

It is already known that a simple nonlocal de Sitter gravity model, which we denote as $\sqrt{dS}$ gravity, contains an exact vacuum cosmological solution which mimics dark energy and dark matter and is in very good agreement with the…

General Physics · Physics 2024-04-10 Ivan Dimitrijevic , Branko Dragovich , Zoran Rakic , Jelena Stankovic

The evolution of substructure embedded in non-dissipative dark halos is studied through N-body simulations of isolated systems, both in and out of initial equilibrium, complementing cosmological simulations of the growth of structure. We…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Bing Zhang , Rosemary F. G. Wyse , Massimo Stiavelli , Joseph Silk

The analysis of the presence of substructures in 16 well-sampled clusters of galaxies suggests a stimulating hypothesis: Clusters could be classified as unimodal or bimodal, on the basis of to the sub-clump distribution in the {\em 3-D}…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-22 E. Escalera , A. Biviano , M. Girardi , G. Giuricin , F. Mardirossian , A. Mazure , M. Mezzetti

The Galactic dwarf spheroidal galaxies (dSphs) provide valuable insight into dark matter (DM) properties and its role in galaxy formation. Their close proximity enables the measurement of line-of-sight velocities for resolved stars, which…

We introduce a method for measuring the slopes of mass profiles within dwarf spheroidal (dSph) galaxies directly from stellar spectroscopic data and without adopting a dark matter halo model. Our method combines two recent results: 1)…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 Matthew G. Walker , Jorge Peñarrubia

We observed 5 Hickson Compact Groups with the ESO/MPI 2.2m telescope and WFI to investigate the dwarf galaxy content and distribution in these galaxy groups. Our deep imaging and careful selection of the candidate galaxies revealed a rich…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Dominik Bomans , Elvira Krusch , Ralf-Juergen Dettmar , Volker Mueller , Chris Taylor

We show that observational data for four Abell clusters of galaxies support the Gur\-za\-dyan-Kocharyan relation between the Hausdorff dimension and the dynamical properties of a galaxy system. The Hausdorff dimension is calculated using…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Pierluigi Monaco

We present a double distribution function of dark matter halos, with respect to both object mass and local over- (or under-) density. This analytical tool provides a statistical treatment of the properties of matter surrounding collapsed…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Vasiliki Pavlidou , Brian D. Fields

Studies of the internal mass structure of galaxies have observed a `conspiracy' between the dark matter and stellar components, with total (stars $+$ dark) density profiles showing remarkable regularity and low intrinsic scatter across…

We study spherically symmetric solutions with a scalar field in the shift-symmetric subclass of the Horndeski theory. Constructing an effective energy-momentum tensor of the scalar field based on the two-fluid model, we decompose the scalar…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-10-13 Jiaming Shi , Taishi Katsuragawa , Taotao Qiu

We study the evolution of possible progenitors of Sgr dSph}using several numerical N-body simulations of different dwarf spheroidal galaxies both with and without dark matter, as they orbit the Milky Way. The barionic and dark components of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-02-11 Carmen A. Martínez-Barbosa , Rigoberto A. Casas

We compare the transverse velocity dispersions recently measured within the Sculptor dwarf spheroidal galaxy to the predictions of previously published dynamical models. These provide good fits to the observed number count and velocity…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-06-27 Louis E. Strigari , Carlos S. Frenk , Simon D. M. White

One of the fundamental tasks of dynamical astronomy is to infer the distribution of mass in a stellar system from a snapshot of the positions and velocities of its stars. The usual approach to this task (e.g., Schwarzschild's method)…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-05-17 Scott Tremaine

(Abridged) Galaxies are observed to be simple systems but the standard model of cosmology (SMoC) implies a haphazard merger history driven by dynamical friction on dark matter halos. The SMoC is tested here with the results that the dual…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-02-11 Pavel Kroupa

We examine the correlation between physical quantities to explore the existence of dark matter (DM) in the Local Group dwarf spheroidal galaxies (dSphs). In order to clarify whether DM exists in the dSphs we compare two extreme models of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 H. Hirashita , H. Kamaya , T. T. Takeuchi